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Pashley, Robert
Travels in Crete (Band 2) — Cambridge und London, 1837

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COINS OF LISSOS.

CHAPTER XXVI.

KAMP0SEL0RAKH0 TO SKLAVOPULA. THE ANCIENT CITY DULO-
POLIS. THE PRESENCE OF SLAVONIANS, IN THE CONTINENT OF
GREECE, HAS NOT EXTENDED TO CRETE. SELINO-KASTELI.
SFAKIAN DIALECT. SITE OF KALAMYDES. ANCIENT DORIAN
INSTITUTIONS IN CRETE. HAGHIO KYRKOS, THE SITE OF LISSOS.
TWO SUPPOSED COINS OF LISSOS. A NIGHTS LODGING AT
HAGHIO KYRKO.

Kamposelurakho, April 26.

This village now contains only forty houses: it pays
fifty-eight kharatjs. Kamposeldrakhos and Kunone are
the two principal villages of the district called Ennea-
khoria. The similarity of sound between Inakhorion
and Ennea-khoria, reminds us of the ancient city which
formerly existed on the sea-coast at no great distance
from this place. I am inclined to believe the name of
the district to be a corruption of that of the ancient
city1. I do not, however, hear of any remains of an-

1 Thus, I suppose, Hippocoronion has become Apokdrona: see Vol. i.
p. 63.
 
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