Historical place profile
Gournia
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.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:771100776
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:771100776
- Place type
- architecturalcomplex, settlement, space-uncovered
- Coordinates
- 35.109317, 25.792665
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
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.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: GPS in the field
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
Compare this place with the chronological map at the relevant year, nearby political units, routes, institutions and the period portals. Where the source record is silent about jurisdiction, population or ecclesiastical rank, this profile makes no such claim.