Agioi Deka ruins of Gortys. There is a local archaeological museum containing finds from the area. Other archaeological remains include the "Praetorium" located between Agioi Deka and Gortys, the tombs of Agioi Deka and the old church in the centre of the old village. The name of the village means Ten Saints, referring to the ten Martyrs of Crete (Agathopus, Basilides, Gelasius, Evaristus, Eunician, Euporus, Zoticus, Theodulus, Saturninus, and either Cleomenes or Mobius or Pompeius) who martyred there in 250 AD during the religious persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius. At the site of their martyrdom stands a 12th-century church. Agioi Deka
Pabitra Kumar Deka Pabitra Kumar Deka Pabitra Kumar Deka (29 January 1940 – 5 January 2010) is a novelist, humor writer, publisher and editor of monthly magazine, film critic and script writer living in Assam in India. He is the winner of the Best Film Critic Award in 1988 from the Eastern India Motion Picture Association. The Government of Assam has instituted the State Best Film Critic Award in the name of "Pabitra Kumar Deka Award" from 2010 after his death. Pabitra Kumar Deka was born in the small town of Haibargaon in the district of Nagaon (Assam) to Shri Mahendra Nath Deka