greek hotels - Lassithi County History Lassithi County does not lack archaeological findings and histoncal monuments, as it has been inhabited constantly since Minoan times. Many invaders have appeared there over the years, and they, too, have marked the area's history. According to Greek mythology, Zeus was bom to Rea in Dikteon Andro cave on the Lassithi plateau. She then gave him to the Nymphs and the Kountes to hide, in order to protect him from the wrath of his father, Cronus, who wanted to stop him. The first signs of life date from the Neolithic penod, while in 2700 BC tribes from Africa and Asia had invaded the area The creation and prospering of the Minoan civilisation followed and lasted until 1700 BC. The Donans then amved on the island, around 1450 BC. The ancient cities of Lato, Olous, lerapytna and Pressos flourished at the time. In 66 AD, the area was conquered by the Romans, and was annexed to the Byzantine state in 393 AD. In 824 it was taken over by Arabs and Saracens, followed by the penods of Venetian and Turkish rule. The county's inhabitants contHbLfLed significantly to the nation's fights for freedom against the Turks. The Cretan revolutionanes of 1866 used Lassithi plateau as a hideout and headquarters. Again, later on, the LassRhians bad spirit strated their fighting spirit in resistance to the German occupation forces in the Second World War, wrrting their own epic history, to which the War Memorials of today bear testimony.

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Lassithi County does not lack archaeological findings and histoncal monuments, as it has been inhabited constantly since Minoan times. Many invaders have appeared there over the years, and they, too, have marked the area's history.
According to Greek mythology, Zeus was bom to Rea in Dikteon Andro cave on the Lassithi plateau. She then gave him to the Nymphs and the Kountes to hide, in order to protect him from the wrath of his father, Cronus, who wanted to stop him. The first signs of life date from the Neolithic penod, while in 2700 BC tribes from Africa and Asia had invaded the area The creation and prospering of the Minoan civilisation followed and lasted until 1700 BC.
The Donans then amved on the island, around 1450 BC. The ancient cities of Lato, Olous, lerapytna and Pressos flourished at the time. In 66 AD, the area was conquered by the Romans, and was annexed to the Byzantine state in 393 AD. In 824 it was taken over by Arabs and Saracens, followed by the penods of Venetian and Turkish rule.
The county's inhabitants contHbLfLed significantly to the nation's fights for freedom against the Turks. The Cretan revolutionanes of 1866 used Lassithi plateau as a hideout and headquarters. Again, later on, the LassRhians bad spirit strated their fighting spirit in resistance to the German occupation forces in the Second World War, wrrting their own epic history, to which the War Memorials of today bear testimony.