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PROFITIS ELIAS (Small town) HERAKLIO
The village of Profitis Ilias, 20km south of Iraklion, has a hill
above it with two peaks (Roka) which was the Acropolis of ancient Lycastos. Nikiforos
Fokas built the Byzantine castle of Temenos in the same location in 961 when he
freed the island from the Saracens. His objective was to bring the city of Hantaka
(Iraklion) into the castle of Temenos. However, this did not materialize and the
city remained were it was. In the thirteenth century the castle of Temenos was
occupied by the Genoese Pescatore, and later by the Venetians. The name Kanli
Kastelli in Turkish means blood-painted castle, and took its name from a massacre
of Turks by the Venetians and Greeks that took place here in 1647.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
The village of Profitis Ilias, 20km south of Iraklion, has a hill above it with two peaks (Roka) which was the Acropolis of ancient Lycastos. Nikiforos Fokas built the Byzantine castle of Temenos in the same location in 961 when he freed the island from the Saracens. His objective was to bring the city of Hantaka (Iraklion) into the castle of Temenos. However, this did not materialize and the city remained were it was. In the thirteenth century the castle of Temenos was occupied by the Genoese Pescatore, and later by the Venetians. The name Kanli Kastelli in Turkish means blood-painted castle, and took its name from a massacre of Turks by the Venetians and Greeks that took place here in 1647.
ROUKANI (Village) TEMENOS
The village of Roukani is 25km south of Iraklion via the road Iraklion
- Profitis Ilias - Kiparissos - Roukani. In Roukani is the eleventh century Byzantine
church of Agios Ioannis.
LYKASTOS (Ancient city) TEMENOS
Lycastus. Lukastos: Eth. Lukastios. A town of Crete, mentioned in the Homeric
catalogue. Strabo says that it had entirely disappeared, having been conquered
and destroyed by the Cnossians. According to Polybius (xxiii. 15) the Lycastian
district was afterwards wrested from Cnossus by the Gortynians, who gave it to
the neighbouring town of Rhaucus. In Mr. Pashley's map the site is fixed at Kaenuria.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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