Gournia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Ryan Horne
Creators: Ryan Horne
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 02, 2019 11:36 AM
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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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771100776
35.109083, 25.792722
- "Town Court" of Gournia (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- Gournia (English, modern)
- Gournia connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement, agora, forum, plaza
GPS in the field
Gournia was first excavated by Harriet Boyd Hawes and the American School of Classical Studies in the early twentieth century.
Ryan Horne, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Gournia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771100776> [accessed: 07 December 2019]
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