Gournia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Ryan Horne Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Ryan Horne Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 23, 2023 06:45 PM
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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
35.1092717913, 25.7927074057
- Representative Locations:
- GPS Location: "Town Court" of Gournia (2000 BC - 1600 BC) accuracy: +/- 15 meters.
- OSM location of Gournia (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Gournia (English, modern)
- Gournia connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
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space (uncovered), settlement, architectural complex
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, Catherine Bouras, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Gournia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771100776> [accessed: 24 June 2025]
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