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Odigitria

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Odigitria is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan religious complex including two tholos tombs located near the modern Odigitria Monastery in the Asterousia mountains of southern Crete. [1]

10 relations: Amulet, Asterousia, Beehive tomb, Blade (archaeology), Crete, Diadems, Gonia Monastery, Minoan civilization, Minoan pottery, Minoan sealstone.

Amulet

An amulet is an object that is typically worn on one's person, that some people believe has the magical or miraculous power to protect its holder, either to protect them in general or to protect them from some specific thing; it is often also used as an ornament though that may not be the intended purpose of it.

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Asterousia

Asterousia (Αστερούσια) is a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece.

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Beehive tomb

A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi) (Greek: θολωτός τάφος, θολωτοί τάφοι, "domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.

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Blade (archaeology)

In archaeology, a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core.

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Crete

Crete (Κρήτη,; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Diadems

The Diadems was one of the bands created by the 3rd French season of the popular reality show "Popstars", called "Popstars - the Duel" aired on RTL Group TV channel Métropole 6 (better known as M6) in fall 2003.

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Gonia Monastery

Gonia Monastery (Μονή Γωνιάς), Monastery of Our Lady of Gonia or Monastery of Panagia Hodegetria (Μονή της Οδηγήτριας) is an Orthodox monastery located 1 km north of Kolymvari and some 26 km from Chania, on the coast of the south-east Rodopos peninsula in Crete, Greece, overlooking the Gulf of Chania.

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Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was an Aegean Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands which flourished from about 2600 to 1600 BC, before a late period of decline, finally ending around 1100.

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Minoan pottery

Minoan pottery has been used as a tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization.

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Minoan sealstone

Minoan seal-stones are gemstones, or near-gem-quality stones produced in the Minoan civilization.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odigitria

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