Located on the fertile Argolid plain, Tiryns lies between Nafplion and Argos in the eastern Peloponnese in Greece. The site has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age (7th-4th millennium BCE) but reached its greatest period of importance in the 13th century BCE as a major centre of the Mycenaean civilization and aided by its position, at that time just 1 km from the coast, it was an important Mediterranean Bronze Age port. Tiryns, along with nearby Mycenae, is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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Timeline
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c. 3000 BCEFirst settlement at Tiryns.
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1700 BCE - 1100 BCEThe Mycenaean civilization dominates Greece.
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c. 1600 BCEFirst construction stages of the Tiryns citadel.
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1400 BCE - 1300 BCEMycenaean palace architecture at Tiryns.
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1300 BCE - 1200 BCEMycenaean Tiryns is at the height of its importance.
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c. 1200 BCEEarthquake severely damages Tiryns.
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c. 600 BCE - 700 BCETiryns becomes a cult centre for the worship of Hera, Athena, and Herakles.
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c. 468 BCETiryns is destroyed by the Argeians.
