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Mycenae
Lion Gate redirects here, for other meanings see
Lions' Gate (disambiguation)
Mycenae (
Greek
), is an
archaeological site
in
Greece
, located about 90km south-west of
Athens
, in the north-eastern
Peloponnese
.
Argos
is 6 km to the south;
Corinth
, 48 km to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located one can see across the
Argolid
to the
Saronic Gulf
.In the second millennium BC Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece. The period of
Greek history
from about
1600 BC
to about
1100 BC
is called
Mycenaean
in reference to Mycenae.
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