iolcus thessaly Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/iolcus-thessaly Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Iolcus in History & Today http://toursmaps.com/iolcus-in-history-today.html http://toursmaps.com/iolcus-in-history-today.html#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:16:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245671 The Mycenaean site at Dimini near \blos was first excavated at the end of the twentieth century. As a town and palace – the only Mycenaean palace in Thessaly – served by major roads, its importance soon became apparent. Finds of high-status imports from Syria and Asia Minor confirmed Dimini’s strong trading links, allowing archaeologists to identify it as mythological Iolcus. Dimini’s history stretches back much further. In the early fifth millennium bc a thriving Late Neolithic city was built on the hilltop above what was then an inlet on the north coast of the Gulf of Pagasae. The settlement

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