Keraia (other)
Keraia (Greek ), which literally means "horn", is a rare Greek word that may mean: * Keraia (Crete), a town of ancient Crete * Keraia (Pisidia), a town of ancient Pisidia *In modern Greek print, the keraia ( ʹ ) is used to distinguish numerals from letters *Something insignificant, a small projection, translated to English Tittle A tittle or superscript dot is a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic in the form of a dot on a letter (for example, lowercase ''i'' or ''j''). The tittle is an integral part of the glyph of ''i'' and ''j'', but diacritic dots can ap ...

Keraia (Crete)
Ceraea or Keraia ( grc, Κεραία), also known as Cerea or Kerea (Κερέα), Ceraeae or Keraiai (Κεραῖαι), was a town of ancient Crete. It is mentioned by Polybius, and minted coins similar to those of Polyrrhenia in antiquity. The site of Ceraea is tentatively located near modern Meskla Meskla (Μεσκλά) is a village in the municipality of Platanias, a regional unit of Chania, western Crete, in Greece. According to the 2011 census it has 333 inhabitants. It is built on an altitude of 200 meters, at the northern foothills of t .... References Populated places in ancient Crete Former populated places in Greece {{AncientCrete-geo-stub ...
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Keraia (Pisidia)
Keraia was a town of ancient Pisidia inhabited during Hellenistic and Roman times. Its name does not occur among ancient authors, but is inferred from epigraphic Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ... and other evidence. Its site is located near Çere, Belören, in Asiatic Turkey. References Populated places in Pisidia Former populated places in Turkey Roman towns and cities in Turkey History of Burdur Province {{Burdur-geo-stub ...
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Greek Numerals
Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world. For ordinary cardinal numbers, however, modern Greece uses Arabic numerals. History The Minoan and Mycenaean civilization 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.. It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland ...s' Linear A and Linear B alphabets used a different system, called Aegean numerals, which included number-only symbols for powers of ten:  = 1,  = 10,  = 100,  = 1000, and  = 10000. Attic numerals comprised another system that came into use perhaps in th ...
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