enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Black Friday cruise deals: Latest offers on 2025 cruises and ...

   www.aol.com/black-friday-cruise-deals-latest...

   There are decent summer holiday deals as well, including a seven-night Greece and Adriatic cruise from Ravenna on Explorer of the Seas for £556 per person on 16 August 2025. The price for a ...

3. Minoan palaces - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_palaces

   Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and are modern tourist destinations. [1] Archaeologists generally recognize five structures as palaces, namely those at Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Galatas, and Zakros. Minoan palaces consisted of ...

4. History of Crete - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crete

   The Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos showing bull-leaping, c. 1450 BC; probably, the dark skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are women. The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia.

5. Byzantine Crete - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Crete

   Under Roman rule, Crete was part of the joint province as Crete and Cyrenaica.Under Diocletian (r. 284–305) it was formed as a separate province, while Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) subordinated it to the Diocese of Moesiae (and later the Diocese of Macedonia) within the praetorian prefecture of Illyricum, an arrangement that persisted until the end of late antiquity.

6. Greece fires – live: Red alert for Crete as British tourists ...

   www.aol.com/greece-fires-live-evacuation-orders...

   Crete is at “extreme risk” of raging wildfires as local authorities warn the island is next in line to be ravaged by blazes spreading across Greece.. It comes as up to 10,000 British tourists ...

7. 2021 Arkalochori earthquake - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Arkalochori_earthquake

   The ~M w 8.0–8.5 earthquake in Crete in 365 AD and 1303 are examples of subduction zone events. In 1810 and 1856, Crete was struck by large intermediate-depth intraplate earthquakes which were devastating and felt strongly in Africa and the Levant. The 1810 and 1856 earthquakes occurred within the subducting African plate rather than at the ...