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Knossos

noun
1.
An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.  Synonyms: Cnossos, Cnossus.






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"Knossos" Quotes from Famous Books



... receive an influx from space, rise then in a silent upheaval, and those low shadows that were London, even now half foundered, would at once go. This darkness was an irresponsible power. It was the same flood which had sunk Knossos and Memphis. It was tranquil, indifferent, knowing us not, reckoning us all one with the Sumerians. They were below it. It had risen above them. Now the time had come when it was laving the ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson



Words linked to "Knossos" :   Cnossus, Cnossos, town



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