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Aptera (Greece)
Archaeological site and ancient city in Western Crete, Greece / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aptera (Ἄπτερα[1] or Ἀπτερία[2]) or Apteron[3] was an ancient city, now an archaeological site in Kalives [4]in western Crete, a kilometre inland from the southern shore of Souda Bay,[5] about 13 km east of the city of Chania in the municipality of Chania.
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