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Olous – The Sunken City

Olous, also called Olus is an ancient Dorian city that lie on both sides of the isthmus connecting the peninsula of Spinalonga to the mainland in the modern-day town of Elounda in Crete. Researchers believe that the city was submerged due to a local shift caused by an earthquake sometime around the 2nd century AD.