Agioi Deka Agioi Deka Agioi Deka (, "Holy Ten") is a village in the Heraklion regional unit, Greece, with 861 inhabitants (2011 census). It is located in the 44th km of the Heraklion-Tympaki national road and it is the centre of the municipality of Gortyna (Δήμος Γόρτυνας). The village is built on the feet of a green hill with view to the plain of Messara, at altitude of 170 meters, over the remains of ancient Gortys. It is supposed that the cemetery of Gortys was located in this area, and many of the old houses are built using recycled material from the
Pabitra Kumar Deka and Swarnalata Deka. His father was a government officer in the Agriculture Department. The family settled in Guwahati in the early 1960s. After his retirement from office, Mahendra Nath Deka started "M.N. Deka Films", a film distribution company, which released many Assamese and Bengali films in the sixties and seventies. Pabitra Kumar Deka, the eldest son, attended Nagaon Government High School and earned a degree in Commerce from Nowgong College. During his college days, he acted in and directed a number of one-act and full-length plays in Nagaon. In the one-act play competition held in Nagaon Natya Mandir in 1960,