Historical place profile
Praisos
Praisos is an ancient settlement of eastern Crete occupied from the Late Minoan period until ca. 150 BC, when it was destroyed by its neighbour, Hierapytna.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:590011
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:590011
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.123297, 26.090540
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Praisos is an ancient settlement of eastern Crete occupied from the Late Minoan period until ca. 150 BC, when it was destroyed by its neighbour, Hierapytna.
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: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 F2 Praisos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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