Gortyn
settlement
ancient city in Crete, Greece
Location: 35.0601, 24.9495 · Pleiades 589796
Who is recorded here
- Saint Titus death · AD 107
What happened here
In art
About the place
Gortyna was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the form of Γορτύν; but afterwards became usually Gortyna (Γόρτυνα). According to Stephanus of Byzantium it was originally called Larissa (Λάρισσα) and Cremnia or Kremnia (Κρήμνια).
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