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The village of Males is located 40km southwest from Agios Nikolaos
on the road Agios Nikolaos - Kalo Horio - Anatoli - Males, and 22km northwest
of Ierapetra on the road Ierapetra - Ligia - Anatoli - Males.
It is the site of the ancient town of Malla. Malla was an independent town, and
an inscription discovered information about a treaty between Malla and Lyttos
in the third century B.C. During the Venetian occupation Males was the largest
village in Ierapetra province. The area near Males contains some interesting Byzantine
churches and monasteries.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
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