MINO´A(Μινώα, Ptol. 3.17.7; Μίνω, Stadiasm.;Minoum, Plin. Nat. 4.12.)
1. A place in Crete, which Ptolemy (l. c.) fixes to the W. of the headland of Drepanon. Mr. Pashley ( Trav. vol. 1. p. 44) thinks that it was situated at Stérnes, on the Akrotéri of the bay of Súdha.
2. A city of Crete, which belonged to the district of Lyctus, and stood on the narrowest part of the island, at a distance of 60 stadia from Hierapytna. (Strab. 10. p. 475; Ptol. 3.17.5.)
Its position has been fixed at Castel Mirabello, near Istrónes. (Höck, Kreta, vol. 1. p. 421.) [E.B.J]