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Górtys (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 03 43 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.0627 decimal degrees |
| Long: 024 56 45 E degrees minutes |
Long: 24.9469 decimal degrees |
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Note: Was important Late Minoan center; mentioned in the Iliad; suffered civil war in 221 BCE; was destroyed by the Saracens in the 9th century CE. Was an impressive fortress in ancient times; was member of the Achaean League; was no more than a village when recorded by Pausanias in the 2nd cen. CE; inhabitants were finally driven out by Slavs, an founded a new town at Karítaina. |
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| Górtys (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Gortyn (C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Gortys (C,V,S)
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| Gortis (C,V)
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| Gortina (C,O)
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| Gortyna (C,V)
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| Górtin (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Górtun (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Górtynos, Archaía Pólis (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Archaía Pólis Górtynos (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Kortys (C,V)
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| Γόρτυν (C,V)
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| Γόρτυς (C,V)
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| Γόρτυνα (C,V)
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| Cremnia (H,V)
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| Cremonia (H,V)
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| Kremnia (H,V)
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Crete (region (administrative division)) (P) |
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Iráklion (regional division) (P) |
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Górtys (deserted settlement) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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probably inhabited in Neolithic times, destroyed in AD 824 |
| archaeological site (C) |
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| ruins (C) |
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| inhabited place (H) |
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| archiepiscopal see (H) |
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| fortress (H) |
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