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Aulon (Crete)
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'''Aulon''' (), known later as '''Alonion''' (Άλονίων), was a town and ''[[poleis]]'' (city-state)<ref name=Poleis></ref> of [[ancient Crete]].<ref name=Barrington></ref> It is mentioned in a decree of 480 BCE of [[Gortyna]] where a series of privileges are granted to a person perhaps of foreign origin among which were land and housing in Aulon. Of this decree it has been deduced that Aulon was a city that was fortified and was dependent on Gortyna but that probably had autonomy in some aspects. About this relationship between Aulon and Gortyna analogies have been noted with that between [[Halicarnassus]] and [[Salmacis (Caria)|Salmacis]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2N5Bv2B Ins. Creticae IV.64.]</ref><ref>Adrià Piñol Villanueva, ''Halicarnaso y Salmacis. Historia de una comunidad greco-caria'' [http://bit.ly/2SQ0SL9], in ''Faventia Supplementa 2. Contacto de poblaciones y extranjería en el mundo griego antiguo'', pp.175-176. </ref>
Its site is located near [[Agioi Deka]] ('Ten Saints'),<ref name=Barrington/><ref></ref> which refers to ten Christian martyrs killed at the amphitheatre of Alonion.
==References==
[[Category:Populated places in ancient Crete]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Greece]]
[[Category:Cretan city-states]]
Its site is located near [[Agioi Deka]] ('Ten Saints'),<ref name=Barrington/><ref></ref> which refers to ten Christian martyrs killed at the amphitheatre of Alonion.
==References==
[[Category:Populated places in ancient Crete]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Greece]]
[[Category:Cretan city-states]]
February 14, 2019 at 07:33AM
