Posted in History, Places, tagged Crete, labyrinth, Mesara, video on December 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Labyrinth of Crete is situated around 3 km northeast from the archaeological site of Gortys in central Crete. It is an underground quarry in marly limestone, excavated probably during the Roman Period. It was first described and mapped in the 18th and 19th centuries. More detailed descriptions have been published recently.
The cave comprises [...]
Posted in History, Places, tagged , Allied Troops, Australia, Maori, New Zealand, Souda, Souda Bay, Suda, War Cemetery on October 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I spent a while this afternoon in the Souda Bay War Cemetery. Sometimes I just like to go there to sit and stare across the many neatly lined graves to the sea of Souda. I am too young to actually remember the war because I wasn’t born until 1946, but from what I have read, [...]
Posted in History, Places, tagged , Agia Galini, Agia Triada, Agioi Deka, Cyrene, Europa, Festos, Gortyn, Iraklion, Kamares, Knossos, Kommos, Matala, Mesara, Mesara Plain, Minoan, Minos, neolithic, Pitsidia, Zeus on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
In the whole of the island of Crete, one area that is still magical today as well as being vitally important to the history of Crete, is the Mesara Plain. The Mesara is in southern central Crete in the south of the Nomos of Iraklion. It is the biggest plain in Crete and very important [...]
Posted in History, Places, tagged , Agioi Deka, Alonion, archeology, Byzantium, Constantine, Crete, Decius, Gortyn, Iraklion, Kydonia, Metropolis, Titus on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
The road from Iraklion winds south through the town of Agia Barbara and descends to the Mesara Plain at a small village which is still called, to this day, Agioi Deka. Agioi Deka is built on the eastern part of the ancient city of Gortyn. Gortyn is one of my favourite sites in Crete and [...]
Posted in History, tagged Knossos, Gortyn, Messara, Koinon, Lyttos, Lappa, Aptera. on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the foundation of the new Greek Kingdoms, mostly in the east, the island of Crete rose in importance. Hellenistic Greece was a real bed of influence and threat as well as downright attacks on each other, kingdom verses kingdom, state against state.
The only way [...]
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