Cytaeum
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.409, 24.869
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Crete
History
Cytaeum or Kytaion was a town on the north coast of ancient Crete. It is mentioned by Ptolemy, Pliny the Elder, Nonnus, and Stephanus of Byzantium. Cytaeum minted coins dated to c. 350-325 BCE with the inscription «ΚΥ».