Example sentences for: minoan

How can you use “minoan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Fascinating miniature work is also in evidence, with a series of tiny faience plaques depicting the façades of Minoan houses.

  • The west wing of the palace was given over to cult practices — with shrine, purification and libation rooms — as in other Minoan sites, with workshops in the south.

  • The Minoan settlement of Petrás lies 1 km (.66 miles) to the east and it was the Venetians who made their town on this hillside location, building a fortress — the Kamárza — on its highest point.

  • The collection covers finds from the Neolithic age onward and concentrates on Minoan finds in the ‘lesser’ (if one can use such a phrase for finds of this quality) sites, as there are no major palaces in the area.

  • We now know many facts about Minoan Crete including that at the height of its influence, the population probably numbered more than 2 million, about four times greater than today’s figure, with 100,000 people in the capital, Knossós.


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