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Although it is located on the southeast coast of Crete, Ierapetra is the southernmost city in Europe. Pleasant sight, even called 'the crossroads of civilizations and aheana Minoan', today still has an air Ierapetra paraginit.La first glance do not you think that the city was once a thriving city, with villas, temples and amphitheatres. Moreover, Ierapetra is a very old town, inhabited since time preminoice which flourished precisely because of trade with North Africa and the Middle East.
Originally it was called Cyrbas, named after its founder, later Kamiros, Pytna, and then Ierapytna Ierapetra.
The fortress was strongly fortified and was able to block expansions for centuries invaders. He resisted even before the Roman Empire until the year 68 BC, when, finally, was conquered. And basically destroyed.
But the Romans rebuilt their model, theaters and public buildings, with paved streets and sewer systems. Followed Byzantine period, a flourishing period for the city, then in 824 AD was among the first towns captured by the Arab power in those times. Venetian power and then succeeded, then the Turkish in 1647 AD
The old harbor is guarded by a Venetian fortress dating from the early century. XIII, and in the western city is a beautiful Turkish quarter, which dominates in a mosque and a well restored Ottoman. On one of the streets Ierapetra, Samouil street, it seems that he had spent one night in 1798 the famous Napoleon Bonaparte, on his way to Egypt.
Ierapetra | Although it is located on the southeast coast of Crete, Ierapetra is the southernmost city in Europe. Pleasant sight, even called 'the crossroads of civilizations and aheana Minoan', today still has an air Ierapetra paraginit
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