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The settlement of Apiranthos is mentioned as early as 1413 by the traveller Cristoforo Buondelmonti as a village of importance.

Its inhabitants became emery miners, stockbreeders and cultivators of the vine. They still produce a wine which is extremely satisfying both to the palate and the eye, a fact which gave rise to the saying that in Naxos there were springs which produced not water but the switest of wine.

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