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Malia, Crete, the Glossary

Malia (Greek: Μάλια) is a coastal town and municipal unit situated in the northeast corner of the Heraklion region of Crete, Greece.^[1]

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Aegean palaces of the Bronze Age
Cities in ancient Crete
Hersonissos

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Alexandre Farnoux

Alexandre Farnoux is a French historian, a specialist on the Minoan civilisation and Delos.

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In phonetics, alveolo-palatal (alveolopalatal, alveo-palatal or alveopalatal) consonants, sometimes synonymous with pre-palatal consonants, are intermediate in articulation between the coronal and dorsal consonants, or which have simultaneous alveolar and palatal articulation.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Ashlar

Ashlar is a cut and dressed stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape.

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Ayia Napa

Ayia Napa (Άγια Νάπα Aya Napa), officially romanised Agia Napa, is a tourist resort at the far eastern end of the southern coast of Cyprus.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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French School at Athens

The French School at Athens (École française d’Athènes, EfA; Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών Gallikí Scholí Athinón) is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.

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Gift shop

A gift shop or souvenir shop is a store primarily selling souvenirs, memorabilia, and other items relating to a particular topic or theme.

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Government Gazette (Greece)

The Government Gazette (lit; Katharevousa: Ἑφημερίς τῆς Κυβερνήσεως) is the official journal of the Government of Greece which lists all laws passed in a set time period ratified by Cabinet and President.

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Grain

A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Heraklion

Heraklion or Herakleion (Ηράκλειο), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit. Malia, Crete and Heraklion are Populated places in Heraklion (regional unit).

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Heraklion (regional unit)

Heraklion (Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ηρακλείου) is one of the four regional units of Crete.

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Hersonissos

Hersonissos (Χερσόνησος, meaning “peninsula”, Chersónisos), also transliterated as Chersonissos and Hersónisos, is a town and a local government unit in the north of Crete, bordering the Mediterranean / Aegean Sea. Malia, Crete and Hersonissos are Populated places in Heraklion (regional unit).

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Hotel

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.

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How to Have Sex

How to Have Sex is a 2023 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Molly Manning Walker, in her directorial debut.

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Hypostyle

In architecture, a hypostyle hall has a roof which is supported by columns.

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Ibiza

Ibiza (Eivissa,; see below) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Jean Charbonneaux

Jean Marie Augustin Charbonneaux (15 January 1895 – 21 February 1969) was a 20th-century French archaeologist.

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Kernos

In the typology of ancient Greek pottery, the kernos (or, plural kernoi) is a pottery ring or stone tray to which are attached several small vessels for holding offerings.

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Knossos

Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete. Malia, Crete and Knossos are Aegean palaces of the Bronze Age and Minoan sites in Crete.

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Kouloura

A kouloura, or kouloures (Greek plural koulourai), is a circular subsurface pit with stone walls found in certain settlements within Ancient Crete, including the Minoan palaces at Phaistos, Knossos, and Malia. Malia, Crete and kouloura are Minoan sites in Crete.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Magaluf

Magaluf is a town on the western coast of the island of Majorca.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Minoan chronology

Minoan chronology is a framework of dates used to divide the history of the Minoan civilization.

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Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

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Minoan eruption

The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE.

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Minoan palaces

Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age.

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Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.

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Nightclub

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.

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Olive oil

Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.

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Phaistos

Phaistos (Φαιστός,; Ancient Greek: Φαιστός,, Linear B: 𐀞𐀂𐀵 Pa-i-to; Linear A: 𐘂𐘚𐘄 Pa-i-to), also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete. Malia, Crete and Phaistos are Aegean palaces of the Bronze Age and Minoan sites in Crete.

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Pierre Demargne

Pierre Demargne (8 February 1903 – 13 December 2000) was a French historian and archaeologist.

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Pithos

Pithos (πίθος, plural: πίθοι) is the Greek name of a large storage container.

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Restaurant

A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers.

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Spyridon Marinatos

Spyridon Marinatos (Σπυρίδων Μαρινάτος; – 1 October 1974) was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations.

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Stalida

Stalida (Greek: Σταλίδα, older form Stalis) is a village that lies between Malia and Hersonissos on the north coast of Crete, Greece. Malia, Crete and Stalida are Hersonissos and Populated places in Heraklion (regional unit).

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The Inbetweeners Movie

The Inbetweeners Movie (known simply as The Inbetweeners in North America) is a 2011 British coming-of-age teen adventure comedy film based on the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, written by series creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris and directed by Ben Palmer.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Windmill

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malia,_Crete

Also known as History of Malia, Crete, Malia (city), Malia (municipality), Malia (town), Mallia, Crete.

Malia, Crete, the Glossary

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See also

Aegean palaces of the Bronze Age

Cities in ancient Crete

Hersonissos

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