Country Greece Vehicle registration AN Municipality Sitia Regional unit Lasithi | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Friday 2:35 AM Administrative region Crete | |
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Itanos (Greek: Ίτανος) is a former municipality in the Lasithi regional unit, eastern Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Siteia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 197.406 km2 (76.219 sq mi). Its territory is rich in ancient archaeological sites, notably a Minoan city in Roussolakkos and the ancient Greek city Itanos in Erimopolis. The Minoan settlement was called Utana (cf. Linear B U-ta-ni-yo [KN E 749]). Herodotus recorded that the settlers from Thera (modern Santorini) who founded Cyrene owed their knowledge of the coast to an Itanian trader named Corobios.
Map of Itanos 723 00, Greece
Population 2,108 (2011). The seat of the municipality was in Palaikastro.
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