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Coordinates:35°22′16″N24°28′22″E / 35.371092°N 24.472901°E /35.371092; 24.472901

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Rhithymna orRithymna (Ancient Greek:Ῥίθυμνα) orRhithymnia (Ῥιθυμνία), was a town ofancient Crete,Greece, which is mentioned byPtolemy^[1] andPliny the Elder^[2] as the first town on the north coast to the east ofAmphimalla, and is spoken of as a Cretan city byStephanus of Byzantium, in whose text its name is written Rhithymnia; Stephanus gives the city'sethnonyms asῬιθυμνιάτης andῬιθύμνιος.^[3] It is also alluded to byLycophron (76). ModernRethymno retains the name of the ancient city, upon whose site it stands. Rhithymna minted coins in antiquity; maritime emblems are found on them.^[4] It is believed thatArsinoe is the same town as Rhithymna.^[5]^[6]

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^Ptolemy.The Geography. Vol. 3.17.7.
^Pliny.Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.20.
^Stephanus of Byzantium.Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^Eckhel,Numi Vet. Anecdoti, p. 155; Rasche, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 1024;Robert Pashley,Crete, vol. i. p. 101.
^Richard Talbert, ed. (2000).Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^Lund University.Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Rhithymna".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.