Istron
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.128, 25.731
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town of Crete
History
Istron was a town of ancient Crete. Istron is mentioned in a list of Cretan cities cited in a decree of Knossos from about 259-233 BCE, as well as in the list of Cretan cities that signed an alliance with Eumenes II of Pergamon in the year 183 BCE.