Cities

Aptera

Southern Europe

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Geography Atlas. "Aptera." Accessed September 6, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/aptera-greece.

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Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Aptera. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/aptera-greece

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@misc{geographyatlas-aptera,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Aptera},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/aptera-greece},
  note = {Accessed September 6, 2026}
}

Aptera, also known as Apteron, was an ancient city that is now an archaeological site in Kalives in western Crete, about a kilometer inland from the southern shore of Souda Bay and roughly 13 kilometers east of the city of Chania, in the municipality of Chania.

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