Gérgeri

Gergeri lies beneath the Psiloritis mountains in the Pano Riza country of Crete, near the forest of Rouvas. During the Greek War of Independence, the Cretan commissioner Emmanouil Tombazis gathered three thousand islanders here to face a much larger Turkish-Egyptian force at Ayia Varvara. On 20 August 1823, the Cretans fought at Amouryelles but were forced to retreat, having lost some three hundred men.