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KALO CHORIO (Village) AGIOS NIKOLAOS
The village of Kalo Horio is 7km south of Agios Nikolaos, above Istro.
To the southeast of Kalo Horio in the place called Vrocastro 300 metres above
the sea and the remains of an old Minoan site from the Prepalatial Period (2200
B.C.).
ISTROS (Ancient city) AGIOS NIKOLAOS
Istrus (Istros), a Cretan town which Artemidorus also called Istrona.
(Steph. B. s. v.) The latter form of the name is found in an inscription (ap.
Chishull, Antiq. Asiat. p. 110). The site is placed near Minoa: Among the ruined
edifices and columns of this ancient city are two immense marble blocks, half
buried in the earth, and measuring 54 by 15 feet. (Cornelius, Creta Sacra, vol.
i. p. 11; ap. Mus. Class. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 273 comp. Hock, Kreta, vol. i. pp.
17, 421.)
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