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By late 1944 German forces were withdrawing from Greece to avoid being cut off by the advancing Russian army moving west across Europe. By the end of September, German and Italian troops began withdrawing from Crete. A small force of British troops landed on Crete on October 13, and both Rethymno and
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would use this as a pretext to end the Halepa Pact Constitution and instead rule the island by martial law. This action led to international sympathy for the Cretan Christians and to a loss of any remaining acquiescence among them to continued Ottoman rule. When a small insurgency began in September
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and Hellenistic period Crete fell into a pattern of combative city-states, harboring pirates. In the late 4th century BC, the aristocratic order began to collapse due to endemic infighting among the elite, and Crete's economy was weakened by prolonged wars between city states. During the 3rd century
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in Athens, Cretan leftists were targeted by the right wing paramilitary organization National Organization of Rethymno (EOR), which engaged in attacks in the villages of Koxare and Melampes, as well as Rethymno in January 1945. Those attacks did not escalate into a full scale insurgency as they did
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movement, participating widely in guerrilla groups and intelligence networks. The first resistance groups formed in the Cretan mountains as early as June 1941. In September 1943, a memorable battle between the troops of occupation resistance fighters led by "Kapetan" Manolis Bandouvas in the region
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Disputes between the two powers led to a further insurgency in 1889 and the collapse of the Pact of Halepa arrangements. The international powers, disgusted at what seemed to be factional politics, allowed the Ottoman authorities to send troops to the island and restore order but did not anticipate
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in exchange for his military support. Between 1821 and 1828, the island was the scene of repeated hostilities. The Muslims were driven into the large fortified towns on the north coast and it would appear that as many as 60% of them died from plague or famine while there. The Cretan Christians also
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have uncovered magnificent stone-built, multi-story palaces containing drainage systems, and the queen had a bath and a flushing toilet. The expertise displayed in the hydraulic engineering was of a very high level. There were no defensive walls to the complexes. By the 16th century BC pottery and
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The invasion of mainland Greece by the Axis powers began on 6 April 1941 and was complete within a few weeks despite the intervention of the armies of the Commonwealth along with Greece. King George II and the Government of Emmanouil Tsouderos were forced to flee Athens and took refuge in Crete on
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was a famous rebel leader. One result of the Ottoman conquest was that a sizeable proportion of the population gradually converted to Islam, with its tax and other civic advantages in the Ottoman system. Contemporary estimates vary, but on the eve of the Greek War of Independence as much as 45% of
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CALLIACHI, (Nicholas,) a native of Candia, where he was born in 1645. He studied at Rome for ten years, at the end of which time he was made doctor of philosophy and theology. In 1666 he was invited to Venice, to take the chair of professor of the Greek and Latin languages, and of the Aristotelic
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In 1939, the United Kingdom guaranteed military aid to Greece if its territorial integrity was threatened. The priority of the United Kingdom was to prevent Crete from falling into enemy hands, because the island could be used to defend Egypt, the Suez Canal and the route to India. British troops
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Due to the economic and intellectual growth observed in Crete during the Venetian era, Cretan literature was rich in quantity and quality and important for the subsequent course of Modern Greek literature. The peaceful living and contact with a developed intellectual and cultural people were the
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and conservative politics among its population. The presence of numerous bandits, escaped convicts and armed deserters in the countryside further complicated the situation. An uneasy truce was maintained until 1947, with a series of arrests of notable communists in Chania and Heraklion. This was
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In 1910 Venizelos transferred his career to Athens, quickly became the dominant figure on the political scene and in 1912, after careful preparations for a military alliance against the Ottoman Empire with Serbia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria, allowed Cretan deputies to take their place in the Greek
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Foreign merchants who chose Lviv as their second home, repaid the city a hundredfold: the Greek from Crete, called Koreto de Candia, whose name was popularly abbreviated into Korniakt, was the most prominent Ukrainian patrician leader in Lviv in the late 16th and early 17th century, erected a
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On the morning of 20 May 1941, Crete was the theater of the first major airborne assault in history. The Third Reich launched an airborne invasion of Crete under the code name of "Operation Mercury". 17,000 paratroopers under the command of General Kurt Student were dropped at three strategic
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in 1906, and in 1908, taking advantage of domestic turmoil in Turkey as well as the timing of Zaimis's vacation away from the island, the Cretan deputies declared union with Greece. But this act was not recognized internationally until 1913 after the
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site. The settlement covered approximately 350,000 square metres. The sparse animal bones contain the above-mentioned domestic species as well as deer, badger, marten and mouse: the extinction of the local megafauna had not left much game behind.
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units which were led by Bandouvas in Heraklion and "Kapetan" Gyparis in Chania. Encouraged by orders from the central organization in Athens, KKE launched an insurgency in Crete; marking the beginning of the
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other remains on the Greek mainland show that the Minoans had far-reaching contacts on the mainland. In the 16th century a major earthquake caused destruction on Crete and on Thera that was swiftly repaired.
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in the summer of 1878, there was a further rebellion, which was halted quickly by the intervention of the British and the adaptation of the 1867-8 Organic Law into a constitutional settlement known as the
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began in 1821, with extensive Cretan participation. An uprising by Christians met with a fierce response from the Ottoman authorities and the execution of several bishops, regarded as ringleaders. Sultan
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type. This was a sensational discovery, as the previously accepted earliest sea crossing in the Mediterranean was thought to occur around 12,000 BC. This suggests that the island may have been visited by
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secured some privileges, such as the right to bear arms, equality of Christian and Muslim worship, and the establishment of Christian councils of elders with jurisdiction over education and
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only 24%. Christians were over 90% of the population in 19 out of 23 of the districts of Crete, but Muslims were over 60% in the three large towns on the north coast, and in Monofatsi.
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for resistance, German officers routinely used firing squads against Cretan civilians and razed villages to the ground. Standing out amongst the atrocities, are the holocausts of
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sees a proliferation of sites, pointing to a population increase. In the late Neolithic, the donkey and the rabbit were introduced to the island; deer and agrimi were hunted. The
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The uprising, which lasted for three years, involved volunteers from Greece and other European countries, where it was viewed with considerable sympathy, particularly after the
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n.sp. (Aves: Strigidae) Z. Zhou, F. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing Science Press (2002), pp. 13-27
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April 23. Crete was also the refuge of Commonwealth troops that fled from the beaches of Attica and the Peloponnese to Crete to organize a new front of resistance.
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landed on Crete with the consent of the Greek Government from 3 November 1940, in order to make the 5th Greek Division of Crete available for the Albanian front.
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Parliament. This was treated as grounds for war by Ottoman Empire but the Balkan allies won a series of sweeping victories in the hostilities that followed (see
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in the Aegean Sea, and a thorn in Byzantium's side. Successive campaigns to recover the island failed until the Byzantine reconquest of Crete in 961 CE, when the
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personally assumed control of the Ottoman forces and launched a methodical campaign to retake the rural districts, which was combined with promises of
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After the conquest of mainland Greece, Germany turned to Crete and the last stage of the Balkans campaign. After a fierce and bloody conflict between
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Calliachius (1645–1707) was born on Crete and went to Italy at an early age, where he soon became one of the outstanding teachers of Greek and Latin.
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and Great Britain) decided that the Ottoman Empire could no longer maintain control and intervened, dispatching a multinational naval force, the
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on the island. The archbishop Cyril of Gortyn was killed and the city so thoroughly devastated it was never reoccupied. Candia (Chandax, modern
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of organic remains and charcoal offers some dates. Based on this, it is thought that Crete was inhabited from about 130,000 years ago, in the
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during the 19th century), the admirals also decided to expel all Ottoman troops from Crete, which was accomplished on 6 November 1898. When
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culture. A thriving literature in the Cretan dialect of Greek developed on the island. The best-known work from this period is the poem
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have been found in numerous sites in Crete, and a few in the Aegean islands. The Minoans established themselves in many islands besides
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A Very Bad Place Indeed For a Soldier. The British involvement in the early stages of the European Intervention in Crete. 1897 – 1898,
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Stone Age seafaring in the Mediterranean: evidence from the Plakias region for Lower Palaeolithic and Mesolithic habitation of Crete
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The Lefka Ori region in the west offered more favorable conditions for DSE's insurgency. In the summer of 1947 DSE raided the
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factors that contributed to the cultivation of education and literature and the emergence of remarkable literary production.
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On 1 June 1941 the Allies completely evacuated the island of Crete. Despite the victory of the German invaders, the elite
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of Syme resulted in the deaths of eighty-three German soldiers and another thirteen were taken as prisoners. There were
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1895, it spread quickly, and by the summer of 1896 the Ottoman forces had lost military control of most of the island.
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Marie-Louise Winbladh, Minoans and Mycenaeans in west Crete. The Greek-Swedish Excavations at Chaniá, Stockholm 2000.
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Marie-Louise Winbladh, Adventures of an archaeologist. Memoirs of a museum curator, AKAKIA Publications, London 2020
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Hewsen, Robert H. (2009). "Armenians on the Black Sea: The Province of Trebizond". In Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.).
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ruled the island in the 1880s, presiding over a parliament in which liberals and conservatives contended for power.
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Excavations in South Crete in 2008–2009 revealed stone tools at least 130,000 years old, including bifacial ones of
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defeated and expelled the Muslim Arabs and Berbers from Crete for the Byzantine Empire, and made the island into a
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Panagiotis Krokidas, and Athanasios Gekas, "Public Health in Crete under the rule of Mehmed Ali in the 1830's."
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Panagiotakis, Nikolaos M. (1987). "Εισαγωγικό Σημείωμα ("Introduction")". In Panagiotakis, Nikolaos M. (ed.).
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T.F. Strasser, E. Panagopoulou, C.N. Runnels, P.M. Murray, N. Thompson, P. Karkanas, F.W. McCoy, K.W. Wegmann
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Lyras, George A.; Athanassiou, Athanassios; van der Geer, Alexandra A. E. (2022), Vlachos, Evangelos (ed.),
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After the expulsion of Ottoman forces in November 1898, the autonomous Cretan State (Official Greek name:
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While the cities continued to prey upon one another, they invited into their feuds mainland powers like
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philosophy; and in 1677 he was appointed professor of belles-lettres at Padua, where he died in 1707.
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One of the most important figures to emerge from the end of Ottoman Crete was the liberal politician
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The most important of the many rebellions that broke out during that period was the one known as the
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with three legions to the island. After a ferocious three-year campaign, Crete was conquered by the
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beautiful bell-tower on the pattern of Renaissance campaniles attached to the church of Assumption.
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painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art with Latin influences, which flourished while
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arrived in Crete on 21 December 1898 (9 December according to the Julian calendar) as the first
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in the 8th century BC. Some of the Dorian cities that prospered on Crete during those times are
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Vasylʹ Mudryĭ, Naukove tovarystvo im. Shevchenka, Shevchenko Scientific Society (U.S.) (1962).
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minority of Crete initially remained on the island but was later relocated to Turkey under the
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Temenos fortress was built by the Byzantines after the reconquest of the island from the Arabs
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The collapse of the Mycenaean civilization was followed by the appearance of the first Greek
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Annette Bingham, "Crete's Roman past: excavations yield antiquities from the Roman period,"
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An archaeological survey and Gazetteer of Late Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Crete
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followed with the mass arming of right leaning villagers and creation of the first Cretan
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suffered such heavy losses, from the resistance of the Allied troops and civilians, that
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chronologies by finds away from Crete and clear influences. Archaeologists ever since
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to Callander, effective "10 o'clock Greenwich Mean Time on the tenth day of May 1945"
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Heraklion were liberated as the occupying forces were withdrawn to the Chania area.
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forbade further airborne operations of such large scale for the rest of the war.
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In December, the Greek flag was raised at the Firkas fortress in Chania, with
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Crete was subsequently left out of the new Greek state established under the
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in the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean Islands, with the Description of
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region, waging several hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful wars (the
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started to interfere in Cretan affairs. In the 2nd century BC Ierapytna (
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Voluntary brotherhood: confraternities of laymen in early modern Ukraine
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in 1897 led to the Ottoman Empire declaring war on Greece. However, the
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to formally surrender all German forces on the island to Major-General
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suffered severely, losing around 21% of their population in the 1830s.
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Further annexations by Rome, in particular of the Kingdom of Pontus by
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From the first days of the invasion, the local population organized a
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Uncommon Dominion : Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic Purity
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date to the 7th millennium BC. Up to now, Knossos remains the only
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During Venetian rule, the Greek population of Crete was exposed to
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Crete was the centre of Europe's most ancient civilization, the
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in attendance, and Crete was unified with mainland Greece. The
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In the partition of the Byzantine empire after the capture of
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Remains of a settlement found under the Bronze Age palace at
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by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the
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Rose, Hugh James; Rose, Henry John; Wright, Thomas (1857).
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of 1833, but direct Ottoman rule was re-established by the
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then in use on Crete, which was 12 days behind the modern
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Since 133 BCE western and central Anatolia had been under
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Tourloukis, Vangelis; Harvati, Katerina (February 2018).
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in the year 88 BCE in order to halt the advance of Roman
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by (Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1958)
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Neolithic pottery is known from Knossos, Lera Cave and
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Stone tools indicate that the island was inhabited by
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attacked Crete in 71 BCE and was repelled. Rome sent
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Cretan Rebel: Eleftherios Venizelos in Ottoman Crete
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Armenian Pontus: The Trebizond-Black Sea Communities
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have identified and uncovered the palace-complex at
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Thus, in 1866 the great 885:in 69 BCE, earning the commander Metellus the 254:) all of which but the shrew are now extinct. 2865: 2690: 1743:(DSE) struggled to establish its presence in 1034: 558: 2659: 2537:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 1144: 854:) to break Roman dominion over Asia and the 1461: 740:challenged the primacy of ancient Knossos. 643:. Unsourced material may be challenged and 413:. Unsourced material may be challenged and 293:, houses, roads, paintings and sculptures. 2872: 2858: 2697: 2683: 2642:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2582: 2552:I︠A︡roslav Dmytrovych Isai︠e︡vych (2006). 2513:Lviv: a symposium on its 700th anniversary 1069:in 1204, Crete was eventually acquired by 936:addressed one of his epistles. The church 869:remained predominant. On the pretext that 842:region. Mithridates VI sought to dominate 767:over Crete which lasted to the end of the 755:. 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The first settlers introduced 169: 28: 2655:King's College, London, September 2014. 2172:The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 1794: 577:in the 9th century BC and the epics of 84:, then successively became part of the 14: 3587: 2282:. Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. p. 36. 2216: 1991:Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1912:University of Pennsylvania Press 2000 1043:Venetian propaganda during the Siege: 924:was the site of the largest Christian 340:, as well as domesticated cereals and 2853: 2678: 2235: 1706:in the Greek mainland and the Cretan 993:held power over the island until the 783:) gained supremacy on eastern Crete. 2704: 2415:Crete: The Battle and the Resistance 2053: 2051: 1964: 1962: 1828: 1739:on the island. 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(1986). 2048: 1959: 1249:The island's Christians revolted 938:was founded in the 1st century CE 2990:Classical and Hellenistic period 2731:Classical and Hellenistic period 2139:10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1434-2 1821:, reaching its climax after the 1778:of potatoes from the village of 1398: 1213:Greek War of Independence (1821) 1127:was author of the dramatic work 908:, brought all of Anatolia under 787:Roman, Byzantine, and Arab Crete 613: 383: 236:Lutrogale (Isolalutra) cretensis 116: 3287:Heraklion Archaeological Museum 3277:Archaeological Museum of Chania 2662:Crete, History and Civilization 2576: 2545: 2504: 2495: 2486: 2454: 2407: 2389: 2367: 2358: 2349: 2340: 2323: 2310: 2305:The Near East: A modern history 2297: 2271: 2244: 2210: 2192: 2188:, The Modern Antiquarian (2007) 1790:Other notable historical events 1531: 1409:needs additional citations for 1383: 1378: 1115:Greek scholars and philosophers 605:Classical and Hellenistic Crete 127:needs additional citations for 2386:Joëlle Dalègre, op. cit., p.20 2177: 2160: 2118: 2101: 2009: 1978: 1946: 1848:As a result of plagues of the 1473:Prince George was replaced by 534:are based on well-established 13: 1: 2395:Van Creveld, op. cit., p. 67. 1935: 1659: 297:settlements in Crete include 2583:Margaritis, Giorgos (2006). 2303:Excerpts from William Yale, 2255:. 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Neolithic Crete

Bull-Leaping Fresco
Knossos
bull-leaping
7th millennium BC
Minoan civilization
first civilization
Iron Age
Crete
Ancient Greece
city-states
Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
Venetian Republic
Ottoman Empire
Greece

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Neolithic
Acheulean
archaic humans
Middle Pleistocene
Late Pleistocene
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