Agia Triada (Pyrgiotissa)
Agia Triada ( Greek Αγία Τριάδα , German ' Holy Trinity ' , Venetian Santa Trinita ) was a village on the Greek island of Crete and was located on a hill in the west of the Messara plain . The place was named after the village church, which was consecrated to the Trinity. A Minoan city was found 200 meters east of the Agia Triada church , which was excavated from 1902 by the Italian archaeologist Federico Halbherr . Since its original name is still unknown today, it is named after the former village of Agia Triada .
history
Agia Triada was founded in the Middle Ages and in the 14th century the two churches, Agia Triada and Agios Georgios Galatas , were built. According to a Venetian survey in 1583, the place had 150 inhabitants. According to the Turkish census of 1834, the place was in the Pyrgiotissa eparchy and only six Christian families lived there. In 1897 the village was robbed and destroyed by Turkish soldiers and abandoned by its residents. Today, apart from the two churches, only a few ruins remain.
Web links
- Archaeological site of Agia Triada at interkriti.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agia Triada at helleniczeus.gr (en) ( Memento from August 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 35 ° 3 ′ 28.3 ″ N , 24 ° 47 ′ 24 ″ E