Libyan Sea

Libyan Sea

The Libyan Sea is a portion of the Mediterranean Sea situated north of the country of Libya and generally southerly of the island of Crete. [George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, "The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge", 1861, D. Appleton and Co.] This designation was used by ancient geographers describing the southern Mediterranean, but the term is also used by modern travel writers and cartographers. ["Crete Map", Eastern Crete Development Organization (2004) Fotis Serfas] The southern coastline of Crete which borders the Libyan Sea includes the Asterousi Mountains and Mesara Plain; this area is the locus of considerable ancient Bronze Age settlement including the sites of Kommos, Agia Triada and Phaistos. [ [http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/10857/phaistos.html#fieldnotes C.Michael Hogan, "Phaistos fieldnotes", The Modern Antiquarian, 2007] ]

ee also

*Asterousia Mountains

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