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Camara

Καμάρα

Camara (Καμάρα: Eth. Καμαραῖος, Steph. B. sub voce a city of Crete, situated to the E. of Olus (Ptol. 3.17.5), at a distance of 15 stadia according to the Maritime Itinerary. Xenion, a Cretan historian quoted by Steph. B. sub voce (s. v.) says that it was once called Lato. (Hoeck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 10, 394, 116.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.