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Camirus
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Dark Ages | Mycenaean culture and archaeology | Delian League

(Κάμιρος; Kámiros, Lat. Camirus). City on the western coast of  Rhodes near the modern Kalavarda; it was one of the three ancient Rhodian cities, together with  Ialysus and  Lindus (this configuration is already mentioned in Hom. Il. 2,656). According to the evidence of grave finds, C. was already inhabited in Mycenaean times. Its true foundation was by Dorian settlers. Together with Ialysus and Lindus, as well as Cos, C…

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Sonnabend, Holger (Stuttgart), “Camirus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 02 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e607790>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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