Mesa Lasithaki

Mesa Lasithaki (Local Community of Mesa Lasithi) belongs to the Municipality of Lasithi Plateau of the Regional Unit of Lasithi located in the Region of Crete, according to the administrative division of Greece, as formed by the “Kallikratis” program.

Mesa Lasithaki is one of the smallest villages of the Plateau and is located at the western foothills of Mount Tzivi or Aloida (1,664 m). It was not mentioned in the censuses of the historians Castrofilaca and Basilicata. The first reference to the settlement was in 1900 stating that it belonged to the Municipality of Tzermiadon and that it had 96 inhabitants. In the 1920 census, it was in the rural Municipality of Mesa Lasithi with 84 inhabitants.