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The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe.
2 lut 2017 · Crete is an island in the eastern Mediterranean which during the Bronze Age produced the influential Minoan civilization with its distinctive architecture and art.
The first identified by DNA inhabitants of Crete belonged to the same time were G2a3b1-P303 persons. It is known that G2a1 has an extremely low frequency in almost all populations except parts of the Caucasus Mountains: G2a3b1 is common only among Adyghes and Abkhazians of the western Caucasus whose ancestors were Hattians from Central Anatolia.
14 maj 2013 · Here the authors show that the Minoans were a European population, genetically similar to other ancient European populations and to the present inhabitants of the island of Crete.
Much is now known about Crete from the Minoan period – including the fact that, in its heyday, the island had over two million inhabitants, four times more than today. 100,000 of them lived in the capital, in the city of Knossos.
30 paź 2024 · Minoan civilization, Bronze Age civilization of Crete that flourished from about 3000 bce to about 1100 bce. Its name derives from Minos, either a dynastic title or the name of a particular ruler of Crete who has a place in Greek legend.
Today, many sites with ancient Minoan towns survive all over Crete. The most important town, and capital of this civilization, is Knossos, close to modern Heraklion town. Other famous sites include the palaces of Phaistos, Kato Zakros and Malia.
