Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "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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