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Asine

MegalithicEuropeGreecec. 1,300 BCEMycenaean / Hellenistic Greek

Triangular rocky headland rising straight from the sea beside Tolo, ringed by fortification walls of cyclopean character heavily rebuilt around 300 BCE — massive roughly polygonal limestone with a large landward bastion. Swedish excavations from 1922 revealed Early Helladic houses, Mycenaean remains and a Geometric town; attributing individual wall stretches between the Bronze Age circuit and the Hellenistic refortification remains difficult.

37.5280°, 22.8745°

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