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Heraklion

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Elias Kolovos, R. Talbert

Last modified Jun 08, 2018 06:00 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Heraklion was the harbor city of ancient Knossos, and was later re-founded by the Arab conquerors.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589802

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
35.333333, 25.133333

Locations:

centerpoint of modern Heraklion (modern)

Names:

Candia (Italian, AD 1200 - AD 1450)
Ἡράκλειον (Herakleion: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
ربض الخندق (Rabḍ al-Ḫandaq: Arabic, AD 850 - AD 1200)

Heraklion makes connections with:

Heraklion connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)

Heraklion receives connections from:

Place type:
settlement, port, settlement-modern

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Herakleion

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Irakleion

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
J. Bennet, G. Reger, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Elias Kolovos, and R. Talbert, 'Heraklion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589802> [accessed: 19 December 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589802 |title=Places: 589802 (Heraklion) |author=Bennet, J., G. Reger |accessdate=December 19, 2018 6:39 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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