Axos/Oaxos (Crete) 11 Axos - Άξος
Ἄξος - Axos/Oaxos, Archaic to Roman polis with some Minoan traces E of modern Axos in Irakleio Crete
Works: 8
Latitude: 35.307900
Longitude: 24.844100
Confidence: High
Place ID: 353248PAxo
Time period: ACHR
Region: Crete
Country: Greece
Department: Rethymnis
Mod: Axos
- DARE
- IDAI gazetteer ID
Read summary reports on the recent excavations at Axos/Oaxos in Chronique des fouilles en ligne – Archaeology in Greece Online.
Search for inscriptions mentioning Axos/Oaxos (Αξος...) in the PHI Epigraphy database.
The cemetery church of Saint John is built on the site of an Early Christian basilica. There was perhaps a second basilica on the site of the chapel of Saints Eleutherios and Modestos. Remnants of fortifications from Roman and Early Byzantine times.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axus
Wikidata ID: Q2008641
Trismegistos Geo: 1483
Info: Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean
(Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean, Ministry of the Aegean)
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