Aptera (Greece)

Monastery at Aptera.
Ancient theater of Aptera

Aptera (Ἄπτερα[1] or Ἀπτερία[2]) or Apteron[3] was an ancient city, now an archaeological site in Kalives [4]in western Crete, a kilometre inland from the southern shore of Souda Bay,[5] about 13 km east of the city of Chania in the municipality of Chania.

  1. ^ Steph. B., s.v. Ἄπτερα
  2. ^ Ptol. iii. 17. §. 10.
  3. ^ Plin. iv. 20.
  4. ^ "Aptera".
  5. ^ Evans, Arthur John (1911). "Crete" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 425–426.