Agios Myron

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Agios Myron (Greek Άγιος Μύρων) is a town in the municipality of Gorgolaina, Heraklio prefecture, Crete, Greece.

The population of the town, according to the 2001 census was 730 inhabitants.

Agios Myron was known in antiquity as Raukos. It was renamed after Saint Myron who lived in the 3rd - 4th century AD and was a Bishop of Crete. The town was destroyed by an earthquake in 1856 but was soon rebuilt on the same site.