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Gortyna

Southern Europe

Gortyna was a town of ancient Crete that appears in the Homeric poems under the form Gortyn and later became known as Gortyna. Stephanus of Byzantium wrote that it had originally been called Larissa and also Cremnia.

Facts
Elevation (m)
157 1
Latitude
35.060067 degrees north 1
Longitude
24.949458 degrees east 1
Sources
1. Gortyna (Wikidata)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 35.060067, longitude 24.949458
  • P2044 (elevation above sea level)
    elevation 157 m
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Wikidata: Gortyna
Wikidata Q1136193, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Gortyna (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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