Heraklion
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).
Last modified
Jul 23, 2017 02:23 AM
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History
Heraklion was the harbor city of ancient Knossos, and was later re-founded by the Arab conquerors.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589802
35.333333, 25.133333
- centerpoint of modern Heraklion (modern)
- 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 connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
settlement, port, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Herakleion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Irakleion
J. Bennet, G. Reger, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Elias Kolovos, and Tom Elliott, 'Heraklion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589802> [accessed: 21 April 2018]
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