Fodele Village...

The place name Fodele is mentioned in 1248 in a document of the List of Monasteries of the Common, as an area where the imperial monastery of Sfakas owns arable land. It is attributed to the first inhabitants of Fodele (Fodelle), a surname testified in the 13th and 14th centuries, among which the list of slavonic Cretans liberated by the Treaty (1299) by Alexios Kallergis. Later in the middle of the 14th century, according to floods, Fodele is a feud of the rethymnian family of Melissenon or Melissourgos.

In the earlier, known to date, 1577 census from the general foreseeable Giacomo Foscarini, the settlement is referred to as Fodhele in the province of Mylopotamos. When the municipal law was passed by the General Assembly of 1879, it was subordinated to the municipality of Damastas, in 1901, with administrative reassignments, annexed to the municipality of Tylissos of the province of Malevizi, from 1925-1998 constituted autonomous communities, while with Kapodistria part of the municipality of Gazi and The "Kallikrates" part of the Municipality of Malevizi.

According to the researchers, literary testimonies, the number of random finds, the rich natural environment of Fodele is an area of ​​particular interest in the archaeological landscape. Random finds and architectural remains refer to Gialiskari, Lenika, Anemokerathia and others.

In the area of ​​Pera Galini, Greek archaeologists (Banou, Tsivilika, Lianeris) excavate, since 1993, an impressive Minoan settlement with remarkable architectural remains (Mid Minoan complex, probably 2 floors) and movable finds, which according to the Minoan family Harbors - stations on the northern coast since the early palatial years (1900-1700 BC).

The coastal valley of Fodele is identified by researchers with the possible port of Axos, Pantomandrion, an ancient city that is placed by Plinius in Ptolemy after Dion Acron (perhaps the current Cape of Stavros, which closes west of Fodele Bay) A place name linked to Epigraphy and to Eleftherna

According to P. Faure, 1963 Roman remains were found in Greek or Lenka, a point contested in 1989 by the English archaeologist I. Sanders in a limited study of Byzantine churches.