Gortyna

Title

lat Gortyna

Ellotis

grc Gortyn

grc Γόρτυνα

Description

eng The Roman capital of Creta et Cyrenaica province, then Creta, and later seat of the Archbishop of Crete, Gortyna was a thriving community from the Geometric period to the Middle Byzantine period. The first traces of urban settlement date from the Archaic period. The ancient Greek law code known as the "Gortyn Code" was discovered there in 1884.

Identifier

Geonames - 261975

Trismegistos - 719

Pleiades - 589796