 hersonissos ((meaninig peninsula), chersÃ³nisos, ), also transliterated as chersonisos and hersÃ³nisos, is a town and a municipality in the north of crete, bordering the mediterranean / aegean sea. this community is about 25 kilometers east of heraklion and west of agios nikolaos. what is usually called hersonissos is in fact its peninsula and harbour. it is part of the heraklion regional unit. it is situated 25&nbsp;km from the heraklion airport and 27&nbsp;km from the heraklion port. the seat of the municipality is the village gournes.kallikratis law greece ministry of interior  ==geography== the seaside resort of hersonissos is officially the port of hersonissos (, limÃ©nas chersÃ³nisou) in distinction to the village of upper hersonissos (, ano chersÃ³nisos) further inland. through tourism, the port town developed from the small harbour which served the original village, now known as old hersonissos. == history == the ancient town of chersonnesus early became a christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of gortyna. the names of some of its bishops appear in extant documents: anderius took part in the council of ephesus in 431; longinus in the robber council of 449; euphratas was a signatory of the letter sent by the bishops of the province to the emperor leo i the thracian in 458 after the killing of proterius of alexandria; sisinnius was at the trullan council in 692; and another sisinnius at the second council of nicaea in 787.michel lequien, oriens christianus in quatuor patriarchatus digestus, paris 1740, vol. ii, coll. 269-272 after the venetian conquest of crete in 1212, the existing dioceses, such as chersonnesus, were administered by latin church bishops. the line of residential latin bishops ended with the conquest of crete by the ottomans in 1669.raymond janin, v. '
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