Five kilometers (3 miles) directly south of the Iraklion is Knosses, now famed worldwide as the village where Sir Arthur Evans (then director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford) found proof that the Cretan civilization of myth had been based on reality.
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Knosses is on the south side of the Iraklion.
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Knosses is to the north of the Iraklion.