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  • What is left of their power bases can be seen at Gournia and Phaistos, stunningly beautiful sites.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

  • What is left of their power bases can be seen at Gournia and Phaistos, stunningly beautiful sites.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

  • A friendly taxi driver from Agios Nikolaos pulled his cab over to the side of the road so I could take this photo as we passed the Minoan palace of Gournia.

    Voyage to Crete: Gournia/Mochlos 2009

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    Voyage to Crete: Gournia/Mochlos 2009

  • The rugged coastline of eastern Crete, somewhere between the modern city of Agios Nikolaos and the ancient city of Gournia

    Voyage to Crete: Malia 2009

  • For example, a Marine Style pot from Gournia depicting an octopus can be looked at with other pots from the same period, or can be compared with more stylized octopuses on later pottery to be seen a case or two away.

    Minoans in Manhattan 2008

  • The Gournia-Ierápetra passage in antiquity, he says, provided an overland route linking the Aegean and Libyan seas.

    Crete Airport Flap 1999

  • A consortium of local authorities, tourist businesses, and farmers has designed the airport, located at the center of a nine-mile strip of land extending from the ancient Minoan city of Gournia, on the north coast of Crete, to Ierápetra.

    Crete Airport Flap 1999

  • Miss Boyd's remarkable excavations at Gournia, Crete, were in connection with the Archaeological Institute of America, and the University of Pennsylvania.

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

  • Gournia had had its modest palace, occupying an area of about half an acre, with its adaptation, on a diminutive scale, of the Knossian

    The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

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