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2 unusual facts about Gortyna


Constantine Paparrigopoulos

He was reappointed as a teacher when he obtained the Greek nationality (as a "Gortynian").

Gortyna, Arcadia

The territory of the municipal unit Gortyna is very mountainous: the Mainalo lies to the northeast, and the Lykaion to the southwest.


Ernst Fabricius

Federico Halbherr, Ernst Fabricius e Domenico Comparetti, Leggi antiche della città di Gortyna in Creta.

History of discovery and distribution of the remains of Aegean civilization

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna.


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