According to mythology created by the Cyclopes. Originally belonged to Danao and later in the offspring of Hercules. The findings of the excavations indicate that inhabited in Neolithic times. The edge of the beginning but the Proto Age (2500 BC) to continue in Mycenaean, when the city became the citadel of monumental form. He continued to live there after the Dorian invasion, to the Geometric period, when created and settlement outside the citadel. The decline began after the development of Argos, from which it was destroyed in 468 BC about. The residents left the area and others moved to Argos and others in today’s Porto Heli. Reoccupied the Byzantine. Near the ruins of the ancient city is built the present village, 7 km N of Nafplio.
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