Old references
The village was founded during the Hellenic Middle Ages, in the historic period called “byzantine” and that can be testified by the sufficient number of old churches that were built that time. The oldest testimony for the settlement Kedrohori can be found in a contract of 1301, from the notary of Handakas, Benv. de Brixano who named it then “Vudomaierio”. In the year 1881 the village would be given officially the name “Dumaerio” which will be used until 1940. Since then the village will be known to the official documents as “Kedrohori” (name taken from the mount Kedros and the greek word for village “horio”).
An old "cooking" legend
The initial name of the village Kedrohori was “Dumaerio” and it is said from the aged villagers that came from an old legend. According to its story there was a noblewoman living there during the byzantine period. The land from the top of the mount Kedros till the south seashores that face the Libyan Sea (the sea between the south coasts of island Crete and the north coasts of Africa) was in her possession and a lot of workers were in her responsibility then in order to farm that area.
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Moreover she had stables for the oxen that the workers used to plow the land. Where the village today is she maintained a cook house so that she could provide them food. The initial name of the village, “Dumaerio”, is an abbreviation of the word “Vuidomaerio”. And that is a synthetic word of two different words: The first part “Vuido” has the meaning of the “oxen” in greek, and the second part is a simplified word of “magergio” which means in greek “cook shop”.
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