Mukanai

Mukanai,¹ is a former city located near the village that since 1916 has called itself Μυκήνες (Mukínes or Mykínes). It is located inland on the Peloponnísou² peninsula and region, north of the Argolikós Gulf, within the Decentralized Administration of Peloponnísou, Western Elládas³ and the Ioníou,⁴ in Ελλάς (Ellás).⁵ It became the most important capital of Mycenaean Greece from about the mid-14th through about the end of the 13th centuries BCE.⁶ It was still occupied until it was sacked in 468 BCE, though it was repopulated for a time during the Hellenistic era.⁷

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External references

overview of the ruins of Mukanai, in the Decentralized Administration of Peloponnísou, Western Elládas and the Ioníou, in Ellás

Footnotes

1. Mukanai is a reconstruction found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_Administration_of_Peloponnese,_Western_Greece_and_the_Ionian, accessed April 25, 2018. The original in Linear B is unknown. Homer, probably from the eighth century BCE, called it Μυκήνη (Mukḗnē or Mykḗnē). Later it was called Μυκῆναι (Mukênai or Mykênai). In English it is Mycenae.
2. Peloponnísou is Peloponnese or Peloponesus in English.
3. Ελλάδα (Elládas) or Ελλάδα (Elláda) are names for what in English is Greece.
4. Ionian in English.
5. Greece in English.
6. Dating in the second millenium BCE is uncertain to a degree of centuries.
7. The era is from 323 to 31 BCE.
8. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Tables of the World's Largest Cities." The city was tied for largest in what is now Ελλάς (Ellás) in 1360 BCE and was the largest in that area in 1200 BCE.