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Crete and a number of islands and islets that surround it constitute the Region of Crete (Greek: Περιφέρεια Κρήτης ), which is the southernmost of the 13 top-level administrative units of Greece, and the fifth most populous of Greece's regions. Its capital and largest city is Heraklion, on the north shore of the island.
The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. During the Iron Age, Crete developed an Ancient Greece -influenced organization of city-states, then successively became part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Venetian Republic, the Ottoman Empire, an autonomous state, and the modern state of Greece.
Ottoman Crete. / 35.333°N 25.133°E / 35.333; 25.133. The island of Crete ( Ottoman Turkish: كریت, romanized : Girit) [3] was declared an Ottoman province ( eyalet) in 1646, after the Ottomans managed to conquer the western part of the island as part of the Cretan War, [4] but the Venetians maintained their hold on the capital ...
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it is often regarded as the first civilization in Europe. The ruins of the Minoan palaces at Knossos and Phaistos are popular tourist attractions. The Minoan civilization developed from the local ...
Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi ( Ottoman Turkish: اوليا چلبى ), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith. [1] He travelled for over 40 years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the ...
The Emirate of Crete ( Arabic: إقريطش, romanized : Iqrīṭish or إقريطية, Iqrīṭiya; [1] Greek: Κρήτη, romanized : Krētē) was an Islamic state that existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire in 961. Although the emirate recognized the suzerainty ...
Giritli Sırrı Pasha ("Sırrı Pasha the Cretan") was a 19th-century Ottoman administrator and man of letters of Turkish Cretan origin.. He was born in 1844 in Kandiye, Crete, Ottoman Empire as the son of Helvacızade Salih Tosun Efendi.
Byzantine Crete. The island of Crete came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire in two periods: the first extends from the late antique period (3rd century) to the conquest of the island by Andalusian exiles in the late 820s, and the second from the island's reconquest in 961 to its capture by the competing forces of Genoa and Venice in 1205.