Mycenae

Mycenae was a city in the northeastern Peloponnese, mainland Greece, around 120 kilometers (75 miles) southwest of Athens. It was a major center of Greek civilization and a military stronghold that dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, and parts of southwest Asia Minor. The period from around 1600 to 1100 BC is called the Mycenaean period because of the Mycenaean Greeks’ dominance at the time.