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Crete was the center of Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. The Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece. Crete was later ruled by Rome, then successively by the Byzantine Empire, Andalusian Arabs, the Byzantine Empire again, the Venetian Republic, and the Ottoman ...
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The Cydonians were the inhabitants of the ancient city of Cydonia (presented day Chania), in northwestern Crete, and the geographer Pausanias also locates the river Iardanus at Cydonia. [3] The river has been identified with the modern Keritis river, which rises in the White Mountains ( Lefka Ori ), flows north through the village of Meskla and ...
The Geropotamos (Greek: Γεροπόταμος or Ιερός Ποταμός) is a watercourse in southern Crete in Greece. Its drainage area is 553 km 2 (214 sq mi). [1] It rises on the north slope of the Asterousia Mountains, near the village Sternes. It flows west through the Messara Plain and discharges into the Libyan Sea near Tympaki.
The Kairatos (Greek: Καίρατος, Latin: Caeratus [1]) is a natural watercourse on the island of Crete in Greece.In the Minoan era, aqueducts diverted water to Kephala hill from spring water sources at Archanes, which springs are the headwaters of the Kairatos River; [2] in fact, the Bronze Age palace of Knossos lay upon the gently sloping banks of the Kairatos. [3]
Samariá Gorge national park Walkers in the Samariá Gorge in 2022 Entrance to the Gorge Upper entrance Samaria Gorge Portes – the narrowest part. The Samariá Gorge (Greek: Φαράγγι Σαμαριάς or just Φάραγγας) is a National Park of Greece since 1962 on the island of Crete – a major tourist attraction of the island – and a World's Biosphere Reserve.
It is situated where the Kourtaliotiko River flows southwards between the mountains of Kouroupa and Xiron. Entrance Arch. The village of Koxare is at the northern end of the gorge. A road runs north to south through the gorge connecting Koxare to Asomatos; it then leads west, to the town of Plakias on the southern coast of Crete.
This is a list of rivers that are at least partially in Greece.The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into.