Polichne, also spelled Polichna, was an ancient town on the island of Crete, Greece, tentatively located near the modern village of Agios Georgios in Vryses. The historian Thucydides records that it fought a war against the neighboring city of Kydonia in 429 BC with Athenian support, while the earlier historian Herodotus preserves a mythic tradition that Polichne and the city of Praisos were the only Cretan cities that refused to join an expedition to Sicily to avenge the death of King Minos.
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Latitude35.484785 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Polichne (Crete) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 35.484785, longitude 23.893933
2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 35.4848,23.8939
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 238.0
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, 23.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.25, 23.75
35.25 23.75 Csa
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 ... # go with EU rules instead, since Greece joined Jan 1. 2:00 EU EE%sT
Polichne (Crete) (Wikipedia)
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Polichne (Ancient Greek: Πολίχνη), or Polichna (Πολίχνα), was an ancient town in Crete.
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