Minoan palace of Knossos
- Period
- c. 1900 BC
- Region
- Europe
- Category
- Culture
Knossos is an archaeological site and ancient urban centre in Crete, Greece. It is located within the southern periphery of Heraklion, about 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the city's historic centre. The site was occupied from the Neolithic period into the first millennium AD and became the largest and best-known centre of the Minoan civilisation.
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Earlier and later events nearby
- c. 1900 BCMinoan palace of KnossosThis page
- c. 1200 BCLate Bronze Age collapse
- 776 BCFirst Olympic Games
- 508 BCReforms of Cleisthenes and Athenian democracy
Who ruled this land
States that held this place in the historical borders data (Cliopatria). Years are approximate, as fine as the data's snapshots (every few years to a century). Tap to open the map for that year.
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- 1600–1500 BCMinoan civilization
- 1400–1200 BCMycenaean Greece
- 1100–850 BCGreek Dark Ages
- 800–300 BCAncient Greece
- 250 BCGreek colonies
- 200–100 BCAncient Greece
- 50 BCRoman Republic
- AD 1–375Roman Empire
- AD 400–825Byzantine Empire
- AD 850–950Emirate of Crete
- AD 975–1200Byzantine Empire
- 1220–1670Republic of Venice
- 1680–1825Ottoman Empire
- 1830First Hellenic Republic
- 1835–1895Ottoman Empire
- 1900–1906Cretan State