Itanos was an ancient Greek city in Crete. Its ruins are now visible in Erimopolis, in the modern district of Itanos

Itanos

Itanos is a former municipality in the Lasithi peripheral unit, eastern Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Siteia, of which it is a municipal unit. Its territory is rich in ancient archaeological sites, notably a Minoan city in Roussolakkos and the...

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Herodotos is the first Greek historian we know who mentioned Itanos.

The archeological site of Itanos is open to the public. It is possible to see the ruins of houses, city walls and Christian churches. Many Greek inscriptions were found in situ; the most famous one, kept now in the monastery of Toplou, relates a decision by the Roman Senate about Itanos' conflicts and territorial disputes with the neighbor cities Praisos and Hierapytna.

The site has been excavated recently by an international team under the supervision of the Ecole française d'Athènes and the local Archaeological Ephoria.

External links

• D. Viviers, Itanos. Archéologie d'une cité crétoise, CREA ULB
• Prospection archéologique de la péninsule d’Itanos
• France Diplomatie - Les carnets d'archéologie - Itanos
• TF1 Le site archéologique d'Itanos en images
• http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bch_0007-4217_1995_num_119_2_7008?luceneQuery=%28%2B%28content%3AItanos+title%3AItanos^2.0+fullContent%3AItanos^100.0+fullTitle%3AItanos^140.0+summary%3AItanos+authors%3AItanos^5.0+illustrations%3AItanos^4.0+bibrefs%3AItanos^4.0+toctitles%3AItanos^4.0+toctitles1%3AItanos^3.0+toctitles2%3AItanos^2.0+toctitles3%3AItanos%29%29+AND+%28+%2Baccess_right%3A%28free%29+%29&words=Itanos&words=100&words=140&words=freeT. Kalpaxis et al., Travaux menés en collaboration avec l’Ecole française en 1994. Itanos (Crète orientale), Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique CXIX, 1995, p. 713～736]
• http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bch_0007-4217_2002_num_126_2_7109?luceneQuery=%28%2B%28content%3AItanos+title%3AItanos^2.0+fullContent%3AItanos^100.0+fullTitle%3AItanos^140.0+summary%3AItanos+authors%3AItanos^5.0+illustrations%3AItanos^4.0+bibrefs%3AItanos^4.0+toctitles%3AItanos^4.0+toctitles1%3AItanos^3.0+toctitles2%3AItanos^2.0+toctitles3%3AItanos%29%29+AND+%28+%2Baccess_right%3A%28free%29+%29&words=Itanos&words=100&words=140&words=freeTravaux menés en collaboration avec l’Ecole française en 2001. Itanos (Crète orientale), Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique CXXVI, 2002, p.577-582]
• other annual reports are available on Persée.