Example sentences for: minoan

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

  • Take a left turn down to the coast at the village of Móchlos, now an easy-going village but during Minoan times an important site.

  • Just 3 km (2 miles) from Phaistós is Agía Triáda, built, archaeologists believe, as a summer palace for the royal court and linked to the city by Minoan road.

  • As Górtis rose in prominence towards the end of the first millennium b.c., the fortunes of Phaistós declined, though it had been the seat of power for most of southern Crete in Minoan times.

  • Iráklion was a thriving port in Minoan times and became known as Herakleium under Roman rule.

  • The palace sat at the top of the hill, its west court housing sacrificial slab and magazines for storage of ritual liquids and libations as seen in other Minoan palaces.


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