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n. - A Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC adj. - Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete.

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  • The Minoan palace at Knossos
  • History's Mysteries' take is that what we call Minoan civilization may have actually been Atlantean.
  • And he believed, what we now know to be the fact, that even before the Homeric there had been a wonderful island-culture, what we call the Minoan, flourishing before the...
  • This earliest civilization in Crete is called Minoan after the legendary King Minos of Knossos.
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