Azoria

thumb|View of Azoria from the Kastro with the Kavousi plain and Bay of Mirabello, with the island of Pseira, in the background Azoria is an archaeological site on a double-peaked hill overlooking the Gulf of Mirabello in eastern Crete in the Greek Aegean. "Azoria" (o Αζοριάς or () Μουρί τ' Αζωργιά) is a local toponym, not apparently an ancient place name or epigraphically-attested Greek city. Located about 1 km southeast of the modern village of Kavousi, and 3 km from the sea, the site occupies a topographically strategic position ( m above sea level) between the north Isthmus of Ierapetra and the Siteia Mountains.

==History== The Azoria Project excavations have recovered evidence of an Archaic Greek city, established BC, following a long period of continuous occupation throughout the Early Iron Age or Greek Dark Age (1200–700 BC) and Early Archaic (700–600 BC) (or Orientalizing) periods. The city was destroyed by fire early in the 5th century BC, to be subsequently reoccupied on a limited scale BC—probably a single tower constructed on the peak of the South Acropolis.