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Minoan civilization; Geographical range: Crete, additional settlements around ... The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of ...
Geographical range: Greek mainland and Aegean Sea: Period: Ancient Greece: Dates: c. 1200–800 BC: Characteristics: Destruction of settlements and collapse of the socioeconomic system: Preceded by: Mycenaean Greece, Minoan civilization: Followed by: Archaic Greece
Articles relating to the Minoan civilization, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500 BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000 BC, and then declining from c. 1450 BC until it ended around 1100 BC, during the early Greek Dark Ages, part of a wider Late Bronze Age collapse around the ...
Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea. There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland. [1] Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.
Pyrgos (also Myrtos-Pyrgos; Greek: Πύργος [στο Μύρτος]) is an archaeological site of the Minoan civilization near Myrtos in the municipality of Ierapetra on the south coast of Crete. Pyrgos provides evidence of settlements along the southern Ierapetra Isthmus. This site has had a long history due to its valuable location and ...
Range coordinates 35°07′35″N 26°16′02″E / 35.12651°N 26.26720°E / 35.12651; 26 Traostalos is the archaeological site of a Minoan peak sanctuary in eastern Crete .
The site was a major centre of the Minoan civilization and is known for its association with the Greek myth of Theseus and the minotaur. It is located on the outskirts of Heraklion , and remains a popular tourist destination.
The Minoan civilization based on the Greek island of Crete becomes Europe's first actual civilization. The culture of Mycenaean Greece (1600-1100 BC) offers the first written evidence of the Greek language. [23] Several Mycenaean attributes and achievements were borrowed or held in high regard in later periods.