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Gortyn. Crete. Greece. View along an excavated path that borders (to the right) the jumbled ruins of the vast Praetorium complex at the archaeological site of Gortyn. Originally built in the 1st century BC to house the Roman governor of the newly formed province of Crete and Cyrenaica, the complex included a basilican hall used as law courts, private residences and a shrine dedicated to Augustus. The vast Greco-Roman ruins of Gortyn or Gortys, a former ancient capital of Crete, are scattered among fields and olive groves in the middle of the Messara plain in the prefecture of Iraklio. Crete is Greece’s largest island and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean.
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