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Definition of Minoan civilisation

1. Noun. The bronze-age culture of Crete that flourished 3000-1100 BC.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minoan Civilisation

Literary usage of Minoan civilisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Discoveries in Crete and Their Bearing on the History of Ancient by Ronald Montagu Burrows (1907)
"CHAPTER III THE BEGINNINGS OF minoan civilisation THIS mass of discoveries on Cretan sites has not only made the ..."

2. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"In the fourth period there are for the first time definite signs of a connection with the minoan civilisation of the south, for in this period Minyan and ..."

3. The Palaces of Crete and Their Builders by Angelo Mosso (1907)
"The pile-dwellings came later, when minoan civilisation was in •ull flower, and they went on existing up to the beginning of the Iron Age, when Minoan ..."

4. How to Study Architecture by Charles Henry Caffin (1917)
"The main interest of this is to discredit an Asiatic source for minoan civilisation. It is apparent from its achievements in engineering and the arts and ..."

5. How to Study Architecture by Charles Henry Caffin (1919)
"The main interest of this is to discredit an Asiatic source for minoan civilisation. It is apparent from its achievements in engineering and the arts and ..."

6. Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo by Mary Hamilton Swindler (1913)
"The invading Achaeans took, over this minoan civilisation in its decay. We may believe that they found the site of ..."

7. Old Provence by Theodore Andrea Cook (1905)
"... which not only provide a middle term between the Egyptian and the Greek, but which show three periods of what he calls minoan civilisation stretching as ..."

8. The Childhood of Art; Or, The Ascent of Man: Or, The Ascent of Man; a Sketch by Herbert Green Spearing (1913)
"It took about fifteen hundred years for these daggers to grow into the swords wherewith minoan civilisation was destroyed. Civilisation and its results seem ..."

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