Eltynia

Eltynia (Greek: Ἐλτυνία) was a town of ancient Crete.^[1] The city is documented through inscriptions, whose earliest testimonies date from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, among which is a law dealing with offenses committed against young people.^[2] It is also mentioned in a list of the Cretan cities cited in a decree of Knossos c. 259-233 BCE,^[3] as well as in the list of Cretan cities that signed an alliance with Eumenes II of Pergamon in the year 183 BCE.^[4]

Its site is located near modern Kounavoi, Ellinika.^[5]^[6]

References

^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Crete". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1166. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Ángel Martínez-Fernández, Sobre el empleo de algunas preposiciones en el dialecto cretense. V,p.99. (in Spanish)
^ SEG 29, 1135
^ IC IV,179.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

35°14′21″N 25°12′06″E / 35.23917°N 25.201564°E / 35.23917; 25.201564

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[Poleis-1] Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Crete". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1166. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

[2] Ángel Martínez-Fernández, Sobre el empleo de algunas preposiciones en el dialecto cretense. V,p.99. (in Spanish)

[3] SEG 29, 1135

[4] IC IV,179.

[Barrington-5] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

[6] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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