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MESSELERI (Village) IERAPETRA
The village of Meseleri is north of Ierapetra, and is 20km south of
Agios Nikolaos on the road Agios Nikolaos - Kalo Horio - Meseleri. It is the site
of the ancient city of Oleros.
OLEROS (Ancient city) IERAPETRA
Oleros, Eth. Olerios. A town of Crete, situated on a hill, with a
temple to Athene. In the struggle between Cnossus and Lyctus, the people of Olerus
sided with the latter. (Polyb. iv. 53, where the reading Orioi appears to be a
mistake.) In the Descrizione dell' Isola di Candia, A.D. 1538 (ap. Mus. Class.
Antiq. vol. ii. p. 271), the site is occupied by a place called Castel Messelerius.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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