Polichna ( grc, Πολίχνα) was a town in the eastern part of

ancient Crete The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The palace-based Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. After the Minoan civilization was devasta ...

, near ancient

Praesus Praesus or Praisos ( grc, Πραῖσος), also Prasus or Prasos (Πρᾶσος), was a Greek city in ancient Crete. Strabo reports that it belonged to the Eteocretes, and contained the temple of the Dictaean Zeus, for Mount Dicte was in the ...

. Its site is tentatively located near the modern Trypitos, Petras.

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Populated places in ancient Crete Former populated places in Greece {{AncientCrete-geo-stub