Kalamydi
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.242, 23.693
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Kalamydi is an ancient Dorian city on the south coast of Western Crete.
History
Kalamydi is an ancient Dorian city on the south coast of Western Crete. It was first tentatively identified in 1837 by Robert Pashley in the second volume of his book Travels in Crete. It is located near Palaiochora in Chania regional unit, near the estuary of the Kakodikianos river. The remains of Kalamyde are to the west of Lissus and thirty stade from Kriu-metopon.