Damasta () is a village in the municipality of
Malevizi
Malevizi () is a municipality in Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town of Gazi. The municipality has an area of .
Municipality
The municipality Malevizi was formed at the 2011 local government reform by t ...
, in the
Heraklion regional unit of
Crete
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,
Greece
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. According to the 2021 census, it numbers 115 inhabitants.
[ The village is first attested in the 16th century. During ]World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, it was the site of the Damasta sabotage
The Damasta sabotage () was an attack by Cretan Cretan resistance, resistance fighters led by British Special Operations Executive officer W. Stanley Moss, Captain Bill Stanley Moss MC against Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Germa ...
on 8 August 1944, and the Germans executed 30 inhabitants as reprisals
A reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of international law to punish another sovereign state that has already broken them. Since the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP 1), reprisals in the laws of war are extremel ...
on 21 August.
References
Populated places in Heraklion (regional unit)
Malevizi
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