Gendarmes from Margarites, Rethymnon: One of the first meetings of the local community with the State is revealed through narration

The research concerns the recording of the population of the gendarmes in Margarites, (Time period 1899-1984). Investigating through interviews, the reasons why they chose the profession of their action in the Community. The aim is to understand their interaction with the Community, in the specific period of time, the effect and consequences of their presence as bodies of state power and the corresponding political ideology in relation to the existing hierarchical relations and dynamics in the Community. (powerful families, Church, Captains, Ideological opponents, etc.). Our research also contributes to understanding the way in which the State's relationship with the Community is shaped through important periods such as those of the Cretan State, the Civil War and the 1967 Dictatorship.