__NOTOC__ Lato pros Kamara or simply Kamara or Camara (

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: ) was an ancient city of

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, situated to the east of Olous, according to the Maritime Itinerary at a distance of 15 stadia (approximately ). It is currently the site of

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. Lato pros Kamara was settled in the late

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as the population of Dorian

Lato Lato () was an ancient city of Crete, the ruins of which are located approximately 3 km from the village of Kritsa. History The Dorian city-state was built in a defensible position overlooking Mirabello Bay between two peaks, both of ...

realised greater security. Its expanding population settled the coastal area, which had been subject to greater likelihood of marine attack during the earlier

. Xenion, a Cretan historian quoted by

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

says that it was once called "Lato", however, modern scholarship distinguishes the two,See, for example: placing Lato pros Kamara as the port of

. Lato pros Kamara outlasted Lato well into

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times.

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Tourism website of the area
Ruins in Greece Port settlements in ancient Crete Former populated places in Greece Populated places in ancient Crete {{AncientCrete-geo-stub

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