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- Crete - Wikipedia
Crete is the largest island in Greece and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea It is located south of almost the rest of the country, in the southern part of the Aegean Sea separating the Aegean from the Libyan Sea
- History of Crete - Wikipedia
The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe [1]
- Crete - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crete is the largest of the Greek islands It separates the Aegean Sea from the rest of the Mediterranean Sea Like the Fertile Crescent, Crete had rich soil, a warm climate, and plenty of water [1] With less time spent fighting to live, the Cretans began to make complicated things
- Crete | History Geography | Britannica
Crete is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean and the largest of the islands forming part of modern Greece It is relatively long and narrow, stretching for 160 miles (260 km) on its east-west axis and varying in width from 7 5 to 37 miles (12 to 60 km)
- Crete and Cyrenaica - Wikipedia
Crete and Cyrenaica (Latin: Creta et Cyrenaica, Koinē Greek: Κρήτη καὶ Κυρηναϊκή, romanized: Krḗtē kaì Kyrēnaïkḗ) was a senatorial province of the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, established in 67 BC, which included the island of Crete and the region of Cyrenaica in modern-day Libya
- Cretan State - Wikipedia
The Cretan State (Greek: Κρητική Πολιτεία, romanized:Kritiki Politeia; Ottoman Turkish: كرید دولتی, romanized:Girid Devleti) was an autonomous state governing the island of Crete from 1898 to 1913, under de jure suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire but with de facto independence secured by European Great Powers
- Crete (mythology) - Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, the name Crete (Ancient Greek: Κρήτη) may refer to several figures, all of whom are associated with the homonymous island of Crete, and may have been considered its eponyms: Crete, daughter of Hesperus [1] and one of the Hesperides and another possible eponym of Crete [2]
- Byzantine Crete - Wikipedia
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
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