A Late Bronze Age Minoan town on eastern Crete which dates from the Neopalatial period c 1600-1450 BC. A small palace was built on the site in Middle Minoan III, c 1600 BC, showing features copied from the palaces of Knossos and Mallia. Through the Late Minoan period, from c 1550, the town grew up around it, with modest houses and narrow curving streets and the palace was turned into small domestic dwellings.