Amnisos was a Bronze Age settlement on the northern shore of Crete, Greece, that served as the port for the Minoan palace center of Knossos. First excavated in 1932 by Spyridon Marinatos, the site includes a villa known as the House of the Lilies for a naturalistic wall fresco of lilies and other flora, dated to roughly 1570 to 1470 BC and destroyed by fire in the Late Minoan IA period. Amnisos also appears in Greek literature and mythology, and its name was important to Michael Ventris's decipherment of the Linear B script, with tablets confirming the site's role in Bronze Age economic and religious life.
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Latitude35.330833 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Amnisos (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 35.330833, longitude 25.206111
2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 35.3308,25.2061
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 19.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.25, 25.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.25, 25.25
35.25 25.25 Csa
4. GeoNames: Karterós - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 7602097, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.13 km)Quote, cities500 record 7602097, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.13 km)
35.32969 25.2065 P PPL GR ESYE43 45 9309 810 16 Europe/Athens
Wikidata: Amnisos
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