Rhamnus or Rhamnous ( grc, Ῥαμνοῦς) was a harbour on the west coast 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 devast ...

near the promontory Chersonesus.

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ...

, on the contrary, places it in the interior of the island. The site of Rhamnus is located at Ormos Stomiou.

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