Kalyvia, Heraklion

Kalyvia, Heraklion

"This article is about a settlement on Crete; for other uses see Kalyvia."

Kalyvia is a village in the Heraklion Prefecture on southern Crete in Greece. [Robert Pashley, "Travels in Crete", 1837, John Murray Publishers, Original from Oxford University, England] ["Crete Map", Eastern Crete Development Organization (2004) Fotis Serfas] Alternatively this settlement is known as Kalivia. The local area was important in the Minoan era, as manifested by the extensive ruins of nearby Phaistos, a major palatial settlement of the Bronze Age. [ [http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/10857/phaistos.html#fieldnotes C. Michael Hogan, "Phaistos Fieldnotes", Modern Antiquarian (2007)] ]

ee also

*Phaistos
*Hagia Triada

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