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The village Mixorouma or "Chani" is one of the biggest villages of the municipality of Agios Vasilios, municipal section of Lambis, mainly because of its geographical position, being the passage to Spili, the capital of the municipality. Located at an altitude of 300m. and has about 400 residents.area map gr01

About 26.5 km far from Rethymnon and about 4 km from Spili. Referred to as Mixorouma in all Venetian censuses.

  • According to Spanakis for the first time the village is mentioned in 1577 by Barozzi and Kastrofilakas called Mixoruma.
  • In 1630 the Basilicata also with the same name.
  • In the Turkish census of 1659 reported as Miksurya with 8 homes.
  • In 1881, referred Myxorrouma in the municipality of Lambis, with 126 residents.
  • In the Egyptian census of 1834 reported as Mixoryma.
  • In 1900 spelled correctly as Mixorouma again in the same municipality with 146 inhabitants.
  • In 1940 again spelled incorrectly as Myxorouma.

The word Mixorouma comes from the complex (mixis+rouma) gave its name to the village from the location of the confluence of two flounders, mixing, mingling the waters of a brook and a river, that springs from Spili.

Today visitor is worth to visit the old Mixorouma, a beautiful village with stone houses, smothered in green.