Matalia
Μταλία
Matalia (Μταλία, Ptol. 3.17.4), a town in Crete near the headland of MATALA (Μάταλα, Stadiasm.), and probably the same place as the naval arsenal of Gortyna, METALLUM (Μέταλλον, Strab. x. p.479), as it appears in our copies of Strabo, but incorrectly. (Comp. Groskurd, ad loc.) The modern name in Mr. Pashley's map is Mátala. (Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 399, 435 Mus. Class. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 287.)
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.