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  2. Minos - Wikipedia

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    After his death, King Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld alongside Rhadamanthus and Aeacus. Archeologist Sir Arthur Evans used King Minos as the namesake for the Minoan civilization of Crete. The Minoan palace at Knossos is sometimes referred to as the Palace of Minos though there is no evidence that Minos was a real person. [1]

  3. List of rulers of Crete - Wikipedia

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    Crete became part of the East Roman or Byzantine Empire upon the partition of the Roman Empire in 395 AD. It remained in Byzantine hands until it was conquered by Andalusian exiles in the mid-820s and became an emirate, nominally under Abbasid suzerainty.

  4. History of Crete - Wikipedia

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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 locations with airfields: Maleme , Heraklion , and ...

  5. Minoan civilization - Wikipedia

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    Although stone-tool evidence suggests that hominins may have reached Crete as early as 130,000 years ago, evidence for the first anatomically modern human presence dates to 10,000–12,000 YBP. [15] [16] The oldest evidence of modern human habitation on Crete is pre-ceramic Neolithic farming-community remains which date to about 7000 BC. [17]

  6. List of people from Crete - Wikipedia

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    See also Category:Cretan mythology and History of Crete. Acacallis daughter of Minos. Aerope granddaughter of Minos. Androgeus son of Minos. Ariadne daughter of Minos. Asterion first king of Crete. Bianna immigrant to ancient Gaul. Catreus son of Minos. Deucalion son of Minos, father of Idomeneus.

  7. Crete - Wikipedia

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    Crete was the center of Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. The Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece. Crete was later ruled by Rome, then successively by the Byzantine Empire, Andalusian Arabs, the Venetian Republic, and the Ottoman Empire.

  8. Category:Kings of Crete - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 3 September 2024, at 21:06 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Cres (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Cres (Ancient Greek: Κρής Kres, gen. Κρητός) was a possible eponym of the island Crete. Stephanus of Byzantium distinguishes between two figures of this name: one was a son of Zeus and the nymph Idaea, and the other a Cretan autochthon who became the first ruler of Crete. [1]