Malla
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.075, 25.586
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: The mint at the ancient site of Malla in Crete
History
Malla was a town of ancient Crete. One of the first testimonies about Malla is an agreement between the cities of Malla and Lyctus dated to the 3rd century BCE. It is also mentioned in the list of Cretan cities that signed an alliance with Eumenes II of Pergamon in the year 183 BCE. Coins minted by Malla dated between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE with the inscription «ΜΑΛ» survive.