Creta (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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The island of Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589748
35.217221272, 25.0851683206
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- Creta (750 BC - AD 640)
- INSVLA CRETICA (Insula Cretica: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Κρήτη (Kríti: Modern Greek)
- Creta (island) bounds Creticum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Creta (island) located in Internum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Omphalion part of (regional) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Oreioi part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Pachia Ammos Minoan Cemetery located on Creta (island) (3100 BC - 1080 BC)
- Palaikastro, Crete part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Pantomatrion/Agrion part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phaistos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phalanna? part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phalasarna part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phoinikous Limen connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phoinix connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phoinix? connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phourni located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Poikilasion connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Polyrrenia connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Praisos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Prepsidai part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Prinias (Patela) connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Priniatikos Pyrgos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Pyloros located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Rhithymna/Arsinoe connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sam(m)onion (promontory) part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sfakia located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Simi part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sipilen connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sisi, Kephali tou Agiou Antoniou located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sklavokampos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Skotino cave connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Stravomyti located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Styrakion (mountain) connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sybrita connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Syrinthos? part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Thenai part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Therapnae/Pherapnae part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Tholos located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Thrypti part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (modern)
- Troulli tis Korfis located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Trypitos part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Untitled located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Vasiliki located at Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Vigla connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Vlithias located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Vrokastro connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zakros connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zakros villa located on Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zephyrion Pr. connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zeus Diktaios, T./Eleia? connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zeus Thenatas, T. connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zominthos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zou part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Creta Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: island
J. Bennet, G. Reger, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Creta (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589748> [accessed: 18 December 2024]
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Comment originally by Robert Consoli, Sep 20, 2012 10:45 AM:
-Koumasa on Crete (more accurately, a pre-palatial cemetery and settlement at 34.983341, 25.012929) has yielded grave goods and other objects which are in the Heraklion Museum and it is a candidate for inclusion to your project. (Google Earth, September 20, 2012. 2429 feet eye altitude)