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584:, the French national research institute, which undertook a number of archaeological projects. The persons responsable (French for "in charge") were Alain Schnapp and Alain Duplouy. The final outcome of the survey was a virtual map of the surveyed area stored in what came to be known as The Itanos Archaeological Survey database, which was developed over the period and has been online since 2006 running on the servers of the French School. The database stores points (données, "data") on the map. One point is a numbered site containing one or more objects of archaeological interest, such as a wall, or a scatter of sherds. The information for a site includes description, date, etc. The database is searchable on a range of specifiable criteria.
508:(permissions). A competition for sites ensued. French troops had landed in Eastern Crete. The British Archaeological School had firmans for Goulas and Itanos. In 1898 J. Demargne of the French School of Archaeology occupied the two sites and demanded permission to excavate from the provisional government. The British, interested in other sites, such as Knossos, yielded gracefully to keep the peace. Demargne excavated the basilicas, or churches, of Itanos in 1899–1900. He was mainly interested in inscriptions, but before he could publish them, he grew ill, and in 1911 turned them over to
676:, believed to represent "a retreat to defensible locations" by lowland population as "substantial groups of immigrants" arrived. The survey area FN sites go on into EM I, but at its end the whole Itanos Peninsula is abandoned. As EM is known as the "Pre-palatial phase," during which populations collected in the vicinity of the palaces, Duplouy suggests that the communities on Itanos found difficulty "exploiting this peculiar territory" and delayed their "settlement nucleation" until EM II, which would count as the beginning of the Pre-palatial in the survey region.
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992:, Book III, Chapter XV lists "Itanos town" as a place on the south coast of Crete. Ptolemy's view is somewhat distorted. His east Crete runs from east to west around Cape Sidero and below it is on south Crete, with nothing being really east. The cape comes to a point. It is not entirely certain that his Itanos is the archaeological or historical site of Itanos, and his sequence of towns remains for the most part unknown. His Itanos, however, is next to Sammonium, or
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city, which occupied the lower ground" (Habitation quarter). Like Spratt, he goes over the ruins, concentrating on the
Necropolis, or cemetery, on a hill to the north, from which most of the inscriptions had come. The Italian mission ended in 1887. Now a respected archaeological peer in Crete, Halbherr went on to work for the Americans and British in other excavations of East Crete, but never came back to Itanos, although he did collaborate on the inscriptions.
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and copied by me, partly in situ, partly in the monastery of Toplu, whither they had been recently carried, have enabled the site of the ancient city of Itanos to be definitively identified with the ruins of
Erimopolis, …. Admiral Spratt, … was not lucky enough to find a single one bearing the name of the ancient city; whereas at the present day … we possess five….” This statement is universally accepted as the archaeological identification of Itanos.
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612:, which gives different coordinates based on Greek reference points. According to the policy of the 24th Ephorate GPS coordinates are converted to EGSA87 coordinates, which are the ones appearing on maps of the survey, when they do. The collaborative institutions, however, decided to restrict access to the coordinates as a measure to protect the sites.
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of ancient habitation are covered by extensive construction of the
Christian era ...." In a hurry now, because nothing they found would justify a second season, performing abbreviated excavation of the necropolis they thought they had located a single building they called the "Grand Tombeau." They did not return.
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The survey team began with the expectation that they would find a "countryside" supportive of the Greek city of Itanos, and it was to some degree present. They also found cultures going as far back as the
Neolithic, much before the city and the Greeks, which the Greeks had supplanted. In the words of
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The JHS reported: "The remains on the ancient acropolis have suffered very serious injury ... pottery ranging from
Protogeometric to Hellenistic has come to light, but without clear stratification; ...." From the East Akropolis they proceeded to the Habitation Quarter: "In the lower town the remains
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Halbherr happened to arrive at Toplou just as a fresh batch of inscriptions from
Erimoupolis was being sorted. Of those known to be from that location and those that had been left in place he found five mentioning Itanos and the Itanoi: “Only in 1884 a large number of epigraphical monuments collected
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municipality. The east akropolis of the city was on the headland between the two beaches. The beach shown as
Eremoupolis could not have appeared then as it does now, but the details have not yet been investigated scientifically. Itanos Beach on the other side went 100 yards further inland and was the
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The first part of the project, which began in 1994 as a collaboration between the
Ephorate, the French School, and the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of Rethymno, is usually termed "The Itanos Archaeological Survey" (La prospection d’Itanos). The decision to survey was based on a land settlement
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owned northeastern Crete. Halbherr discovered that the monks were removing inscriptions from
Erimoupolis. Dissatisfied, he sought and received permission to examine them. He had read Spratt, who had also removed inscriptions from there and had turned them over to the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge.
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Noting that the photographs were indicating a "diversity of soils and landscapes" the team thought it more efficient to divide the surveyable territory into 11 zones, which they named after topographic features, such as hills. The zones form a semi-circle around the walled city but do not include a
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Ancient Itanus was one of the most powerful cities in Crete in
Hellenistic times owing to geography and a flourishing trade. The city controlled a vast territory that stretched from Cape Samonio (Cape Sidero today) on the north tip of Crete to Cape Erythrae (Cape Goudouras) on the far-southeast tip
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The Itanos promontory, today nearly deserted, has 55 Bronze Age and Final Neolithic sites. A Minoan site at Itanos seemed theoretically possible, and yet the survey uncovered no Minoan material on or around the site at all. Instead all the Minoan farms, dams and lookouts seemed centered around “the
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A period summary of the sites found follows. Usually sequence of pottery type is the main criterion for distinguishing period, but as no excavation was performed, no exact sequences were established, and the team had to group together whatever period pottery was found together, creating periods of
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Ground teams decided what was to be considered a site, which must have an above-ground feature. It was then assigned a number. A decision was made to have the numbers run consecutively within the whole territory rather than within the zones. Assessments of the date and culture came from laboratory
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north to (but not including) the military reservation on Cape Sidero, an area of about 20 km (7.7 sq mi), or 15% of Hellenistic Itanos’ territory, with the expectation that, based on the 1950 excavation, they would find “a Greek countryside.” The final results of the survey have now
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In a follow-up article Halbherr translates Erimoupolis as "deserted city" based on what appeared to be its fate. He was the first to perceive the city plan: "Two hills, of which the highest" (East Akropolis) " juts out into the sea ... form two centres, from which gradually arose ... the ancient
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Writing of his travel experiences Spratt interprets Eremoupoli as “desert city,” because “wild and neglected,” identifying it with a name from a manuscript as Etera. He says that he saw “inscriptions, old churches, tombs, and ruins.” The ruins “extend over the hills and slopes which overlook two
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of Crete, and later Christian buildings were erected. For unclear reasons it was abandoned in the 7th century AD after a life of about 1400 years. The location was lost. Archaeologists were able to locate it in the 19th century. Recently it has become a subject in ground-breaking technologies of
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and other institutions in Crete that what was needed was "un portrait le plus complet possible de l'histoire, de la topographie et de l'organisation spatiale de cette petite cité crétoise," to be acquired in "un programme de recherches archéologiques," further defined as "un projet scientifique
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The archaeological survey, 1994–2005, focused on remains discoverable on the surface. Also, a deliberate decision was made to ignore concentrations of sherds if there was no other surface manifestation. To locate sites the team turned to aerial photography, which was simplified by the previous
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As might be expected of collaborative research, the participants belonged to multiple organizations. There were 3 Participants de l'UMR and 9 "Associates," many of whom later became the authors of some of the works cited in this article. They came from academic institutions located in Paris,
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with tsunami destroyed civilization on the promontory. Life at Vai went on in LMIII with a diminished capacity, yet the settlement disappeared altogether in the Early Iron Age, to be replaced by an Itanos newly placed close to the shore in the 8th century BC during the Geometric Period.
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The dates of the FN in Crete vary in the literature and on the Internet. After an initial definition by C. Renfrew in 1972 that was unacceptably over 1000 years, a date of the late 4th millennium proposed by L. Vignetti and P. Bello in 1978 became standard and is used by the team.
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Color terrain map of the Itanos Archaeological Survey (see above) showing numbered dots for the data points. Also shown are two small maps outlining the survey zones and giving the sites per zone and the density of sites per zone. A subsequent figure shows the zones with the
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and elsewhere. A new generation of archaeologists at the French School decided to investigate Itanos for the presence of Minoan remains, which would suggest that "a major bronze age site" had preceded the one in evidence. The evidence did not go in that direction:
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The importance of Itanos can be seen in the city's issuance of its own currency, as well as in many significant ruins. The capital of the greater regional power, Itanus had the temples of Asclepius, Athena, Tyche, and Zeus, and was a historic rival of both
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small bays.” He then proceeds to enumerate most of the ruins as they were found in the archaeological site: the city wall to the south, the two akropoleis, the buildings between them, the churches. He found and copied inscriptions. The monks of
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Moody and Rackham, the peninsula "is the large scale survival of a relict cultural landscape — details of Neolithic, Bronze Age (Minoan), Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Cretan lives ...." This landscape was owned by
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Looking northward from the east akropolis over the beach and bay of Eremoupolis, with Itanos promontory in the background. The ground of the "deserted city" appears bare of vegetation except for overgrown mounds containing structural
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existence of military fly-over photographs dating from 1945, 1966, 1968, and 1992. These were compared to 1:5000 maps in possession of the Institute. To supplement them another fly-over was staged in 2004 to capture oblique views.
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to Karoumes Beach south of Cape Plaka, westward to the mountains of East Crete, a total area of 130 km (50 sq mi). The southern part of this range was already known to have been Minoan. The major site,
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The names do not reflect any communities in the civil division, although their use in the literature seems to imply a community. The name is either the zone or the topographic feature after which it is
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In that system, a portable ground receiver communicates to a satellite system, which finds its position on an ellipsoidal model of the Earth, and calculates the longitude, latitude, and elevation
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A 2005 geophysical study says of it: "Itanos is marked mainly by three periods: Geometric, Roman and Late Christian, while the periods of original occupation and abandonment are not known."
541:, acting through its branch for East Crete, the 24th Ephoria (or Ephoreia, or Ephorate) of Prehistoric (or Prehistorical) and Classical Antiquities agreed with archaeological peers at the
1298:, p. 81 “The Villa was the hub of a complex system of exploitation and control of the territory, which included farms, agro-pastoral sites, check dams and lookout structures.”
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of the 8th century BC. This city flourished independently of other Cretan powers, playing a leading role in the trade of the region, even becoming, for a while, a protectorate of
1017:, is an alphabetic dictionary of place names. Itanos is "a city of Crete." He adds, esti kai akra; "It is also an akra," where akra can mean either "cape" or "citadel."
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British admiralty chart. The latest date on the chart is 1895. The soundings were collected by HMS Spitfire in 1852. Soundings are in fathoms. Elevations are in feet.
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and was threatened for a time by plans made by it with a real estate company to develop parts of it in exchange for a percentage, but in 2000 the peninsula was made a
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The survey was conducted by the two main institutional collaborators from 1994 to 2005 inclusive (12 years). The work was actually performed by an équipe ("team") of
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View southward across East Akropolis. Itanos Bay and Beach in the background, Cape Plaka, Skaria Beach and the Grandes Islands further down. Vai Beach not visible.
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Spratt was following the orders of his commander, Francis Beaufort, chief of the Hydrography Office of the Royal Navy, to “Pick up inscriptions and antiquities.”
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central area comprising Vai Palm Forest and agricultural land west of the ancient city. Excluded from public access to the database are the two quasi-islands,
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1828:"Le territoire d'Itanos au Ier millénaire av. J.-C. De la naissance de la cité grecque à la conquête romaine. Méthode et résultats de la prospection d'Itanos"
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arbitration recorded in a public inscription found in Hellenistic Itanos specifying that the city was sovereign over the entire northeast promontory from
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Rackham, Oliver; Moody, Jennifer (2012). "4.3 Drivers of Change and the Landscape History of Cavo Sidero". In Papayannis, Thymio; Howard, Peter (eds.).
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Contour map with coordinates, showing the main features, all periods, followed by several black-and-white three-quarter view aerial photographs.
526:"... en 1950, ... Hubert Gallet de Santerre, André Dessenne et Jean Deshayes tentèrent en vain d’y découvrir un site majeur de l’Âge du Bronze."
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Bourogiannis, Giorgos (2018). "The Phoenician Presence In The Aegean During The Early Iron Age: Trade, Settlement And Cultural Interaction".
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The archeological site of Itanos is open to the public. It is possible to see the ruins of structures, city walls and Christian churches.
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View north from excavated buildings on East Akropolis, overlooking beach and bay of Eremoupolis, with Itanos Promontory in the background
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Location of ancient Itanos in the municipal unit of Itanos (red area). The yellow area is the remainder of the Municipality of Siteia.
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deep channel of the harbor. Apparently, however, the east akropolis was not high enough or isolated enough to be a defensible fort.
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with formation of interim non-Ottoman governments released the archaeologists from any requirement to seek or abide by Ottoman
2088:"No more Gap, but New Social Practices: Evidence of Collective Funerary Rituals in Itanos during the 6th and 5th Centuries BC"
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2041:"Vers la mise en réseau des données et des chercheurs: le système d'information de la prospection d'Itanos (Crète oriental)"
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cued him as to where they were. These monks had exposed them in superficial digging and then had covered them up again.
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232:, the neuter form of Itanus, Latin for Greek Itanos. The base of the tripartite northeast promontory, today called
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Archaeological sites in Greece are national property, administered by the Archaeological Service, a branch of the
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The forts are typically younger than the pottery but it is assumed the newer walls were built over older ones.
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This article is about the ancient Greek city of East Crete. For the ancient Minoan city of Utanos, see
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Ventris, Michael; Chadwick, John (1953). "Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives".
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Beyond the Polis: Rituals, Rites And Cults in Early and Archaic Greece (12th-6th Centuries BC)
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Many Greek inscriptions were found in situ; the most famous one, kept now in the monastery of
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Some of the coins of this city present the type of a woman terminating in the tail of a fish.
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1954:"Travaux menés en collaboration avec l'Ecole française en 1994: Itanos (Crète orientale)"
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Travaux menés en collaboration avec l'Ecole française en 1999. Itanos (Crète orientale)
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Travaux menés en collaboration avec l'Ecole française en 1998. Itanos (Crète orientale)
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Travaux menés en collaboration avec l'Ecole française en 1997. Itanos (Crète orientale)
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Travaux menés en collaboration avec l'Ecole française en 1996. Itanos (Crète orientale)
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The reservation, a naval base, is denied to the public except by prearrangement.
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Contour map showing numbered locations of the surveyed or excavated features.
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Contour map showing the location of features excavated to date, all periods.
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Costa, Laurent; Eyraud, Franck; Duplouy, Alain; Sarris, Apostolos (2008).
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East Basilica overlooking Itanos Bay, Cape Plaka in the far distance.
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The archaeological site of the classical city in East Crete, Greece
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Natura 2000, Rackham and Moody on a Google Earth satellite photo.
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2010:"Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean: Supplement 1"
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Comments on the proposed Itanos Gaia (Cavo Sidero) Development
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A companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World
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Natural History," Book IV, Chapter 12, "promontory of Itanum."
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A number of plans and aerial views of the site are available.
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1030:"Thomas Spratt: 19th century Antiquarian traveller to Crete"
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to obtain coordinates for a site. Greece, however, uses the
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interdisciplinaire" and "une collaboration internationale."
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surveyed the coasts of Crete under the direction of Captain
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2208:"Itanos: Excavation project 2011 - 2015, study 2011 - 2019"
2101:"Integrated geophysical studies at ancient Itanos (Greece)"
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Cook, J.M. (1951). "Archaeology in Greece, 1949-1950".
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East Akropolis from Itanos Beach, anciently the harbor.
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Activities: 11th International Cretological Conference
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Examples: Alatopatela 12, Soros 74, Vamies 14, 15, 17
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D. Viviers, Itanos. Archéologie d'une cité crétoise
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The site from the E-W akropoleis line to South Hill
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2081:(in Greek). Irakleio: Crete University Press.
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1935:Halbherr, Frederico (1891b).
1918:Halbherr, Frederico (1891a).
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1774:Reference bibliography
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1780:Bennet, John (2011).
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68:Alternative name
1601:"La base de données"
582:UMR 7041 of the CNRS
139:promontory, NE Crete
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458:Domenico Comparetti
407:Archaeological site
269:Eremoupolis Beaches
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