Location information

AGIA PELAGIA (Port) HERAKLIO
  Agia Pelagia is 20km west of Iraklion on the Iraklion - Rethimnon highway. Agia Pelagia was the site of an ancient Greek city. It is not clear which one it was, but some assume that it was Apolonia, the city that was destroyed by the Kydonians at 171 B.C. The name Agia Pelagia originates from the monastery of Agia Pelagia, approximately 1km west of the bay. In the wall of the old monastery there are two shields in relief and between them a coat of arms.

This text is cited Jan 2003 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.

Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/MainArea.jdp?ID=153 (3 img.)

• http://www.interkriti.org/visits/malevizi/apelagia... (5 img.)

APOLLONIA (Ancient city) GAZI

• http://www.interkriti.org/visits/malevizi/apelagia... (2 img.)

LYGARIA (Seaside resort) GAZI

• http://www.interkriti.org/visits/malevizi/apelagia... (1 img.)

Apollonia

APOLLONIA (Ancient city) GAZI
  Apollonia (Apollonia: Eth. Apolloniates, Apolloniates, Apollinas, -atis, Apolloniensis). The name of two cities in Crete, one near Cnossus (Steph. B. s. v.), the inhabitants of which were most treacherously treated by the Cydoniatae, who were their friends and allies. (Polyb. xxvii. 16.) The site is on the coast near Armyro, or perhaps approaching towards Megalo Kastron, at the Ghiofero. (Pashley, Crete, vol. i. p. 261.) The site of the other city, which was once called Eleuthera (Eleuthera, Steph. B.), is uncertain. The philosopher Diogenes Apolloniates was a native of Apolloniates in Crete. (Diet. of Biog. s. v.)

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...