Apeiranthos or Aperathos ( or ; local dialect: , ) is a mountainous village on the island of

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. It is located north-east of the capital of the island, built on the foothill of mountain Fanari, on an altitude between 570 and 640 m. The similarities of the local dialect and traditions to those of mountainous

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villages has led some historians to the conclusion that Apeiranthos was built by Cretans during the 10th century. The first historical evidence regarding the existence of the village goes back to 1420, on a reference by the Italian traveler

Cristoforo Buondelmonti Cristoforo Buondelmonti () was an Italian Franciscan priest, traveler, and was a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities throughout the Western world. Biography Cristoforo Buondelmonti was born around 1385 into an ...

on his book '' Liber insularum archipelagi'' (''The Book of the Islands of the Archipelago''). The village has four museums: the Archaeological Museum of Apeiranthos, the Museum of Folk Art, the Geological Museum, and the Museum of Natural History. With a population of 722 (2011 census), the village is the second largest on the island after

Filoti Filoti (in Greek language, Greek: ''Φιλώτι'' or ''Φιλότι''; officially: ''Φιλότιον'') is a semi-mountainous village of central Naxos, Greece, with a population of 1,617 residents (census 2021), located at the foot of Mt. Zas ...

Notable people

Manolis Glezos Manolis Glezos (; 9 September 1922 – 30 March 2020) was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. After the end of the war, Glezos became a journalist and edited the left-wing n ...

(1922–2020), politician and writer *

Petros Protopapadakis Petros Protopapadakis (; 31 December 1854 – 28 November 1922) was a politician and Prime Minister of Greece from May to September 1922. Life and work Born in 1860 in Apeiranthos, Naxos, Protopapadakis studied mathematics and engineering in P ...

(1854–1922),

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Michalis Vardanis Michalis Vardanis (; 1936 – 14 January 2014) was a Hellenic Army officer, a lawyer and a major figure in the resistance against the Regime of the Colonels. Life Michalis Vardanis was born in the village of Apeiranthos on the Aegean island of ...

(1936–2014), Army officer

Natural History Museum

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