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AGIA PARASKEVI (Village) KOURITES
The village of Agia Paraskevi is near the resort of Agia Galini, on
the south side of the Amari Valley, 59km from Rethimnon, about 63km from Iraklion.
The village contains some interesting Byzantine churches.
AGIOS IOANNIS (Village) KOURITES
The village of Agios Ioannis is 56km from Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Apostoli - Meronas - Agios Ioannis road. In the village there is a Byzantine
church.
AMARI (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Amari is the capital of the province of Amari. It is
located 40km southeast of Rethimnon in the Amari Valley, on the road Rethimnon
- Apostoli - Assomaton Monastery - Monastiraki - Amari. Amari is an old village
and has engaging Byzantine churches. Walking along the narrow alleys of Amari
one can see remains of old buildings with decorative portals.
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ANO MEROS (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Ano Meros is 50km from Rethimnon, on the Rethimnon
- Apostoli - Meronas - Ano Meros road. The remains of an old monastery and church
are above the village. The village located on the slopes of the Amari Valley has
a spectacular view of the valley. The village maintains traditional activities.
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APODOULOU (Village) KOURITES
The village of Apodoulou on the south side of Psiloritis is equidistant
(56km) from Rethimnon and Iraklion. The village of Apodoulou is high up in the
Psiloritis Mountains and has an excellent view of the Amari Valley and a good
climate. The area of Apodoulou contains Minoan remains and Byzantine churches.
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APOSTOLI (Village) SYVRITO
There are many Byzantine churches in the village of Apostoli.
CHORDAKI (Settlement) SYVRITO
The village of Hordaki is 43km from Rethimnon on the Rethimnon - Apostoli
- Meronas - Hordaki road. There is a Byzantine church near the village.
ELENES (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Elenes is 37km southeast of Rethimnon in the Amari
Valley, on the road Rethimnon - Apostoli - Meronas - Elenes, and has a cave that
had Neolithic and Minoan finds and Byzantine churches. The cave of the Margele
where Neolithic and early Minoan finds were discovered is near the village on
the opposite side but it is not easy to approach and is difficult to enter.
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GERAKARI (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Gerakari, 41km southeast of Rethimnon in the Amari
Valley on the road Rethimnon - Apostoli - Meronas - Gerakari, is known for its
large production and excellent quality of fruit as well as for its Byzantine churches.
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IDI (Mountain) RETHYMNO
In the centre of the island is the Idi or Psiloritis Range. The imposing
massive of Psiloritis is visible all over Crete and is especially impressive in
winter. This range contains the highest summit in Crete, Mount Psiloritis (Mt.
Idi), at 2456 metres above sea level. The summit can be reached from the south
side via the Kamares Cave in six or seven hours. There is however a much easier
ascent from the Nida Plateau. There is a well marked path above the Ideon Andron
Cave and the hike should take three or four hours. Water and warm clothing must
be taken even in the spring and summer when the climb can only be made.
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The area of Zominthos is after Anogia and higher in the mountains on the road to the Nida Plateau of Psiloritis. Here archaeologists have found what they believe to be the remains of a very large Minoan settlement that is, as yet, mostly unexcavated. The excavations to date have revealed a large entrance facing east towards Knossos, and a laboratory for producing pottery which had a wheel and other tools as well as many vases. The site is fenced off. This small plateau near Nida has a wonderful view of Psiloritis.
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KALOGEROS (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Kalogeros is 34km southeast of Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Amari Valley road. Near the village of Kalogeros is the Byzantine church of
Agia Marina.
KARDAKI (Settlement) SYVRITO
The village of Kardaki, 43km southeast of Rethimnon in the Amari Valley
on the road Rethimnon - Apostoli - Meronas - Kardaki, is in the middle of a valley
known for its fruit production. In Kardaki is the Byzantine church of Astratigos.
MERONAS (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Meronas is 34km southeast of Rethimnon in the Amari
Valley, on the road Rethimnon - Apostoli - Meronas. The village has a very attractive
Byzantine church in it.
MONASTIRAKI (Village) RETHYMNO
The old village of Monastiraki is 38km southeast of Rethimnon in the
Amari Valley, on the Rethimnon - Prasies - Apostoli - Assomaton Monastery - Monastiraki
road. In Monastiraki there is an important Minoan settlement, and intriguing Byzantine
churches.
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MONI ASSOMATON (Monastery) SYVRITO
The Assomaton Monastery is 35km southeast of Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Amari Valley road. The monastery has a long history of support for the Cretan
fight for freedom and for education. Before the monastery, on the right (east)
side of the road, within the fields is the Byzantine church of Agia Paraskevi.
PANTANASSA (Village) SYVRITO
The village is located 27km southeast from Rethimnon on a right exit
from Filaki of the Amari Valley road (Rethimnon - Prasies - Filaki - Voleones
- Pantanassa). Just before entering the village, on the road, is the two-aisled
Byzantine church of Agios Ioannis and Agia Triada.
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PATSOS (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Patsos is 30km southeast from Rethimnon on a right
exit at Filaki of the Amari Valley - Gerakari road (Rethimnon - Prasies - Filaki
- Voleones - Patsos). The area of Patsos was an important worship site and possibly
a city in antiquity. In addition, the remains of the large Byzantine church of
the Panagia are here.
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PLATANIA (Village) KOURITES
The village of Platania is located 43km southeast of Rethimnon in
the Amari Valley, on the road Rethimnon - Apostoli - Assomaton Monastery - Platania.
In Platania there is the Byzantine church of the Panagia.
SYVRITA (Ancient city) RETHYMNO
The village of Thronos was built on a section of the ancient city
of Sivritos. Sivritos was important during the Greek era (after 5 B.C.) and during
Roman times. The city has a strategic position commanding the passage from north
to south through the Amari valley. Certain scholars believe that ancient Soulia,
present-day Agia Galini, was the port of Sivritos. Some remains of the ancient
city, which was built on different levels, survive. The city walls are still visible
in the hill above the village of Thronos.
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THRONOS (Village) SYVRITO
The village of Thronos is 32km southeast from Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Amari Valley - Agia Galini road. The area has important Byzantine churches,
and above the village are the remains of the acropolis of ancient Sivritos.
Sivritos was an important and autonomous city of the ancient Crete. The city was built in the location that today is the village of Thronos. It was located on a hill dominating the valley of Amari. The village of Thronos that is built on the location of Sivritos took its name by the episcopical seat of Sivritos (Thronos in Greek meaning throne, seat). In Thronos is located a wonderful Byzantine chapel of the 11th century dedicated to the Assumption of the Holy Mother.
VATHIAKO (Settlement) KOURITES
The village of Vathiako is 55km southwest of Iraklion and 57km southeast
of Rethimnon, on the south side of Psiloritis, near the village of Platanos. The
Byzantine church of Agios Georgios is in the village of Vathiako.
VIZARI (Village) RETHYMNO
The village of Vizari is located 41km southeast of Rethimnon in the
Amari Valley, on the road Rethimnon - Apostoli - Assomaton Monastery - Fourfouras
- Vizari. In and around Vizari there are Byzantine churches and Venetian ruins.
VRYSSES (Village) SYVRITO
Vrises is 45km southeast of Rethimnon in the Amari Valley, on the
Rethimnon - Apostoli - Meronas - Vrises road. Vrises is an old village and it
contains some Byzantine churches.
IDI (Mountain) RETHYMNO
Ida (Ide, Ptol. iii. 17. § 9; Pomp. Mela, ii. 7. § 12; Plin. iv. 12,
xvi. 33; Virg. Aen. iii. 105; Solin. ii.; Avien. 676; Prisc. 528), the central
and loftiest point of the mountain range which traverses the island of Crete throughout
the whole length from W. to E. In the middle of the island, where it is broadest
(Strab. x. pp. 472, 475, 478), Mt. Ida lifts its head covered with snow. (Theophrast.
H. P. iv. 1.) The lofty summits terminate in three peaks, and, like the main chain
of which it is the nucleus, the offshoots to the N. slope gradually towards the
sea, enclosing fertile plains and valleys, and form by their projections the numerous
bays and gulfs with which the coast is indented. Mt. Ida, now called Psiloriti,
sinks down rapidly towards the SE. into the extensive plain watered by the Lethaeus.
This side of the mountain, which looks down upon the plain of Mesara, is covered
with cypresses (comp. Theophrast. de Vent. p. 405; Dion. Perieg. 503; Eustath.
ad. loc.), pines, and junipers. Mt. Ida was the locality assigned for the legends
connected with the history of Zeus, and there was a cavern in its slopes sacred
to that deity. (Diod. Sic. v. 70.)
The Cretan Ida, like its Trojan namesake, was connected with the working
of iron, and the Idaean Dactyls, the legendary discoverers of metallurgy, are
assigned sometimes to the one and sometimes to the other. Wood was essential to
the operations of smelting and forging; and the word Ida, an appellative for any
wood-covered mountain, was used perhaps, like the German berg, at once for a mountain
and a mining work. (Kenrick, Aegypt of Herodotus, p. 278; Hock, Kreta, vol. i.
p. 4.)
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SYVRITA (Ancient city) RETHYMNO
Suthrita, Southrita, Southritos, Sithurtos, Eth. Sithrutios. A town of Crete,
8 M. P. from Eleutherna, and famous for its numerous and beautiful silver coins,
which, though some of them belong to a very early period, are the finest specimens
of the Cretan mint; the types are always connected with the worship of Dionysus
or Hermes.
IDI (Mountain) RETHYMNO
Now Psilorati; a mountain in the centre of Crete, belonging to the mountain range which runs through the whole length of the island. Mount Ida is 8055 feet above the level of the sea. It was closely connected with the worship of Zeus, who is fabled to have been reared in a cave in this mountain.
IDI (Mountain) RETHYMNO
Highest summit of the island of Crete
(2456 m), west of Cnossus.
According to one tradition, Mount Ida was the birthplace of Zeus. On its slopes
was the cave where he had been raised and Minos, the famous king of Crete
and lawgiver, himself a son of Zeus, was supposed to have come every nine years
to this cave to listen to his father and seek his help in drawing laws.
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1998), ed.
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SYVRITA (Ancient city) RETHYMNO
33 km south east of Rethymno the village of Thronos is situated, where at the point of 'Kefala' archaeological research brought to light the remains of the ancient city of Sivrytos.
Coins dating back to the period of the ancient city have been discovered during excavation works and are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Rethymno.
SYVRITA (Ancient city) RETHYMNO
PANTANASSA (Village) SYVRITO
Six km W of Sybrita, a small fortified Greek city, with a second larger
fortified city just 3 km to the E. Apparently occupied only in Classical and Hellenistic
times, and abandoned before the Roman occupation, the city was sited on a N slope
on the E edge of the Gorge of Patsos, and covered an area in excess of 2 hectares.
On the E side, and sporadically on the S side, the defense wall can be seen, built
to a width of 1.5 to 2 m. At least one projecting rectangular tower was built
on the E wall, and there are traces of a corner tower at the S end of the E wall.
At the SW corner of the site, a stretch of more crudely built wall ending in a
semicircular bastion of about 4 m diameter, seems to be a late (?Hellenistic)
addition or repair to the original Classical defenses.
Both the city at Pantanassa and that nearby at Veni would presumably
have belonged to the great city of Sybrita, but whereas Pantanassa saw no Roman
occupation, the city at Veni was occupied continuously, it appears, from archaic
to Roman times.
K. Branigan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
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SYVRITA (Ancient city) RETHYMNO
On a hill (Kephala, 618 m) dominating the watershed at the NW end
of the enclosed and fertile Asomatos valley. Although remote, the city controlled
the main route W of Mt. Ida from the S coast and Mesara plain to the N coast.
First settled before the end of the Minoan period, it survived into the first
Byzantine period. It was more important than the sparse literary and epigraphic
references (mostly ca. 200 B.C.) indicate. Little is known of its history, but
it was one of the early Cretan cities to strike coins (5th c. on), and was prosperous
in the late archaic-Classical period; archaeological evidence shows that it flourished
in the Hellenistic period and the 3d c. A.D. (in each case because of its position,
during periods of flourishing trade). The city had a port on the S coast only
(Soulia). Its fine coins portray Dionysos and Hermes (apparently the main deities),
also Zeus and Apollo (?). To the city may belong the cult of Hermes Kranaios in
a cave near Patsos to the W (dedications of LM III to the Roman period, but not
all periods represented). Coins show that it was then, as now, a wine-producing
area.
The summit of Kephala formed the acropolis, and its lower terraces
(mainly on the SW) the city area; some stretches of fine isodomic ashlar and a
gate belonging to the city wall circuit (probably Hellenistic) have been found
on the E side, but the line on the W is not certain though the location of an
ancient necropolis at Yenna defines its maximum extent. Geometric sherds, archaic
sherds and figurines, and Classical bronzeware and figurines have been found,
but no related structures. On the slopes of Kephala are a number of terrace walls
of uncertain date, and on the main SW terrace (Sta Marmara) are houses of the
3d-2d c. B.C. and a Late Roman house with mosaic. A number of large Roman buildings
lie under the village of Thronos on the S terrace of Kephala, and the Early Christian
basilica (probably 5th c.) with mosaics lies under the modern church and square.
The temple of Dionysos may have been just SW of the summit of Kephala; on its
W slope a terrace (Ellinika) has remains of houses, and higher up is the only
spring on the acropolis slope itself. There was apparently a sanctuary at Ayia
Photini near the watershed. The ancient necropoleis lay at Yenna to the SW, where
most of the surviving gravestones were found, and at Sta Pelekita near Klisidi
to the NE. In the Roman period settlement was less concentrated within the city
area, and by late antiquity some of that area was no longer occupied for graves
have been found inside the E wall. Besides the basilica, a number of remains of
late brick and stone buildings survive W of Thronos.
D. J. Blackman, ed.
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Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
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VIZARI (Village) RETHYMNO
Greek and Roman settlements about 20 km NW of Timbaki. A hill S of
modern Vizari was occupied by a small Classical and Hellenistic city, and this
seems subsequently to have been abandoned in favor of a site just W of the present
village. Here a Roman settlement of about 15 hectares was built and occupied at
least until the Arab conquest. Suggestions that the city of Sybrita may have been
transferred to this site ca. A.D. 800 are unconvincing. On the site of the Greek
city there is little to see, although remains of houses cover about a hectare.
Limited excavations in the Roman settlement have revealed a late 3d c. mosaic,
and nearby remains of a bath suite are visible. The main feature of interest and
the main focus of excavations have been the Early Christian basilican church,
which was built about the beginning of the 9th c. A.D.
K. Branigan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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