Phaistos

settlement · 2000 BC – 640 AD

An ancient settlement on Crete where occupation began ca. 3000 B.C., Phaistos was a major center of the Minoan civilization and continued to be a Greek city of the first millennium B.C.

Coordinates

35.05119, 24.81444

Also known as

Archaía Pólis Faistós, Faistos (cs), Faistós (ell), Fajstos (pol), Festo (es), Festos (ca), Phaestus, Phästos, pa-i-to (grc-Linb), Φαιστός (el), Фест (be), Фестос (bg), פאיסטוס (he), فيستوس (ar), فیستوس (fa), 斐斯托斯 (zho), 𐀞𐀂𐀵 (grc-Linb)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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