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Priniás (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 39 39 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 39.6500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 022 43 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 22.7167 decimal degrees |
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Elevation: |
| 2001.312 feet |
610.0000 meters |
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Note: Modern village on site of ancient city; was refuge in Bronze Age; seems to have especially flourished in Archaic period; was fortified in Hellenistic times. |
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| Priniás (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Prinias (C,V)
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| Kermenlí (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Priniá (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Rhittenia (H,V)
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| Rhizenia (H,V)
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| Πρινιάς (C,V,Greek,U)
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Crete (region (administrative division)) (P) |
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Iráklion (regional division) (P) |
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Priniás (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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site of Neolithic remains, earliest traces of permanent settlement are from late Minoan period |
| village (C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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first excavated in 1906 |
| Bronze Age (C) |
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| Archaic (Greek) (C) |
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| Hellenistic (H) |
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