Gournia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Ryan Horne

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Aug 29, 2017 11:19 AM — History

A Minoan palace complex and settlement on Crete, finally abandoned ca. 1200 BCE. The original toponym is unknown and the modern name is derived from stone vessels found at the site.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771100776

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
35.109083, 25.792722

Locations:

"Town Court" of Gournia (2000 BC - 1600 BC)

Names:

Gournia (English, modern)

Gournia makes connections with:

Gournia connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)

Gournia receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, agora, forum, plaza

References:

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Initial Provenance:
GPS in the field

Details:

Gournia was first excavated by Harriet Boyd Hawes and the American School of Classical Studies in the early twentieth century.

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Suggested citation:
Ryan Horne, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Gournia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771100776> [accessed: 22 January 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771100776 |title=Places: 771100776 (Gournia) |author=Horne, R. |accessdate=January 22, 2019 10:25 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Gournia