Essentially a continuation of the Middle Helladic culture, transformed by Minoan influences from Crete, the Mycenaean civilization developed on the Greek mainland roughly between 1600 and 1100 BC, perishing with the collapse of Bronze-Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean, commonly attributed to the Dorian invasion. Its apogee came between 1400 and 1120 BC, when strong citadels and elaborate palaces were built. Mycenae, which gave the name of this civilization, was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold located in the north-eastern Peloponnese which dominated much of southern Greece.
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