Knossos is the oldest city in Europe and the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on the island of Crete, settled in the
Neolithic period. The palace of Knossos was the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization. abandoned at the end of the Late Bronze Age, c. 1380–1100 BC. The site has had a long history of human habitation, beginning with the founding of the first Neolithic settlement c. 7000 BC.
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