Gortyn Municipality
Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (, , or , ) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean island of Crete away from the island's capital, Heraklion. The seat of the municipality is the village Agioi Deka. Gortyn was the Roman capital of Creta et Cyrenaica. The area was first inhabited around 7000 BC.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Gortyn
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Gortynas.png
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Gortys R02.jpg
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Crete
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Heraklion
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 14167
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 464.8
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 4137
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 158.3
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.seat
- Agioi Deka
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Municipality
- Geography
- Climate
- History
- Archaeology
- Monuments
- Law code
- Myth of Europa and Zeus
- ''The Odyssey''
- Notable people
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (, , or , ) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean island of Crete away from the island's capital, Heraklion. The seat of the municipality is the village Agioi Deka. Gortyn was the Roman capital of Creta et Cyrenaica. The area was first inhabited around 7000 BC.
It is located in the valley of Messara in the south of the Psiloritis mountain, in the current position of the settlements of Metropolis and Agioi Deka, and near the Libyan Sea.