Stelae or Stelai ( grc, Στῆλαι) was a town of
ancient Crete
The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The palace-based Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe.
After the Minoan civilization was devast ...
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Stephanus of Byzantium
Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni ...
describes Stelae as being near two towns, which are called, in the published editions of his work,
Paraesus and
Rhithymne.
In the 19th century map of Crete by
Robert Pashley
Robert Pashley (4 September 1805 – 29 May 1859) was a 19th-century English traveller, lawyer and economist.
Pashley was born in York and he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. Distinguished in mathematics and Classics, in 1830 he was elected ...
, its site is fixed at the village of
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on the route from
Inatus to
Gortyna
Gortyna ( grc, Γόρτυνα; also known as Gortyn (Γορτύν)) was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the form of Γορτύν; but afterwards became usually Gortyna (Γόρτυνα). According to Stephanus o ...
. However, modern scholars treat it as unlocated.
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Populated places in ancient Crete
Former populated places in Greece
Lost ancient cities and towns
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