Libyan Sea

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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.[1] This designation was used by ancient geographers describing the southern Mediterranean, but the term is also used by modern travel writers and cartographers.[2] 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.[3]

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  1. ^ George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, 1861, D. Appleton and Co.
  2. ^ Crete Map, Eastern Crete Development Organization (2004) Fotis Serfas
  3. ^ C.Michael Hogan, Phaistos fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian, 2007

Coordinates: 34°00′00″N 24°24′00″E / 34, 24.4


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