Sphoungaras
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 19, 2025 03:52 PM
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History
A hill located several hundred meters north of the Minoan center of Gournia, where a series of Minoan tombs were excavated beginning in the early twentieth century.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/355218709
35.1129078, 25.7944715
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Sphoungaras (3000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Σφουγγαράς (Sphoungaras: Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Sphoungaras located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sphoungaras located north of Gournia (unspecified date range)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Sphoungaras: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/355218709> [accessed: 15 January 2026]
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