Rhithymna, also spelled Rithymna or Rhithymnia, was a town on the north coast of ancient Crete. Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder placed it as the first town east of Amphimalla, and Stephanus of Byzantium recorded it as a Cretan city under the name Rhithymnia, giving its ethnonyms as Rhithymniates and Rhithymnios. Lycophron also alludes to the town. Rhithymna minted its own coins in antiquity, several bearing maritime emblems, and some ancient sources identify it with the town of Arsinoe. Modern Rethymno stands on its site and preserves its name.
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Latitude35.371092 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Rhithymna (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 35.371092, longitude 24.472901
2. GeoNames: Rethymno - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 254352
35.36555 24.48232 P PPLA2 GR ESYE43 44 9318 32468 14 Europe/Athens
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 14 m
View the Source 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, 24.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.25, 24.25
35.25 24.25 Csa
Wikidata: Rhithymna
Wikidata Q24049839, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Rhithymna (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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