Gla was a fortified site of the Mycenaean civilization, located in Northern Greece in the region known as Βιοτία or Boeotia. It was built on a piece of limestone sticking out of lake Kopais, near Orchomenos. It is surrounded by large walls and appears to have had a garrison. Much of the area within the walls is vacant, leading archaeologists believe it served as a refuge for farmers in the area of Lake Kopais in the event of attack. It is thought that Gla served as the "bread basket" for the Mycenaean world. The lake around the citadel was drained in antiquity and would therefore have made for very fertile farming land. On the raised western end of the citadel, along the inside of the north wall, is an unusual L-shaped "palace" structure, which has two megara-like rooms, one at either end. South of this structure were two long narrow buildings (parallel to each other) were discovered which likely served as a kind of barracks. In one of these buildings was a room containing stacks of grain that had been carbonized when the site was destroyed by fire around the year 1200 BC. This suggests that the building served as the grain storage and distribution centers for the citadel and its surrounding area. Mycenaean Greece, the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, is the historical setting of the epics of Homer and much other Greek mythology. ... Boeotia or Beotia (//, (Greek Βοιωτια; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was the central area of ancient Greece. ... -1... Location of Lake Copais in antiquity Lake Copais, Kopais, or Kopaida (ancient Greek , modern ) used to be in the centre of Boeotia, Greece, west of Thebes until the late 19th century. ... Orchomenos (Greek: ), the setting for many early Greek Myths, is a rich archaeological site in Boeotia, (modern Viotia, Greece) that was inhabited from the Neolithic through the Hellenistic periods. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... (Redirected from 1200 BC) Centuries: 14th century BC - 13th century BC - 12th century BC Decades: 1250s BC 1240s BC 1230s BC 1220s BC 1210s BC - 1200s BC - 1190s BC 1180s BC 1170s BC 1160s BC 1150s BC Events and Trends 1204 BC - Theseus, legendary King of Athens is deposed after...

Coordinates: 38°29′00″N, 23°10′56″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...