The Emirate of Crete (Arabic: إقريطش, romanized: Iqrīṭish or إقريطية, Iqrīṭiya; Greek: Κρήτη, romanized: Krētē) was an Arab Islamic state that existed...

Badajoz Granada Emirate of Crete, Crete, modern Greece, 824 or 827/828 to 961 Emirate of Bari, city of Bari in southern Italy 847–871 Emirate of Malta, 870–1091...

the Saracen stronghold of Chandax on the northern coast, which became the capital of the new Emirate of Crete. The fall of Crete to the Arabs posed a major...

conquered Crete and founded the Emirate of Crete moved the island's capital from Gortyna to a new castle they called rabḍ al-ḫandaq ("Castle of the Moat")...

was Iqrīṭiš (Arabic: اقريطش < (τῆς) Κρήτης), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-Ḫandaq (modern Heraklion;...

Byzantine Crete Crete and Cyrenaica, Roman province Emirate of Crete Ottoman Crete Venetian Crete Cretan State Crete, Illinois Crete-Monee High School Crete, Indiana...

recovering some of their lost territories in northern Syria and Armenia. The Emirate of Crete was reconquered in 961. By the end of the 10th century...

The Emirate of Nekor or Şālihid Emirate (Arabic: إمارة بني صالح, romanized: ʾImārat Banī Ṣāliḥ) was an Arab emirate centered in the Rīf area of present-day...

or in Cappadocia). After a failed Byzantine attempt to recover the Emirate of Crete in the previous year, the Abbasids launched a raid into Asia Minor...

The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization...

The Uyunid Emirate (Arabic: الدَّوْلَةُ الْعُيُونِيَّة) was a historical Arab emirate centered in al-Hasa that ruled over most of eastern Arabia and Najd...

The Emirate of Tbilisi (Georgian: თბილისის საამირო Tbilisis saamiro, Arabic: إمارة تفليسي Imārah Tiflīsī) was a Muslim emirate in Transcaucasia. The Emirs...

others ended forming the Emirate of Crete in the 820s. Emir Abd al-Rahman I had used Berbers and the saqaliba for a permanent army of 40,000 to end the conflicts...

convert to Islam who served the Emirate of Crete as a naval commander in the 870s. Photios appears briefly in the narrative of the 10th-century chronicler...

was the third Emir of Crete, ruling c. 880–895. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary...

their stronghold of Chandax on the northern coast, which became the capital of the new Emirate of Crete. The Muslim occupation of Crete had devastating...

ninth-century Andalusian pirate and founder of the Emirate of Crete Abu Hafs ibn Amr (died ca. 928/931), last Arab emir of Malatya Abu Hafs al-Urduni, Jordanian...

Umayyad Emirate of Cordoba, the Muslims of al-Andalus (in the Iberian Peninsula) also sent a fleet under Asba' ibn Wakil to aid the Aghlabid conquest of Sicily...

This is a list of rulers of the island of Crete throughout its history. Crete was conquered for the Roman Republic by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus...

The music of Crete (Greek: Κρητική μουσική, Kritikí mousikí), also called kritika (κρητικά), refers to traditional forms of Greek folk music prevalent...

island of Crete (Emirate of Crete) from the late 820s (c. 824 or 827/828) until the Byzantine reconquest in 961. Arabic was the official language of the...

The Emirate of Granada, also known as the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, was an Islamic polity in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages...

(died 305) Photios (Emirate of Crete) (fl. 870s), Byzantine renegade and admiral of the Emirate of Crete Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1431) Photius...

only many captives but also large quantities of weapons and supplies intended for the Arab Emirate of Crete. The Byzantine attack, which was repeated in...

following. Νίκος Καβρουλάκης believes that it has its roots in the era of the emirate of Crete. He also speculates that it may be missing verses that could give...

was first ruled by the Byzantine Empire (395–824) and then by the Emirate of Crete (824–961). The Arabs seem to have begun calling the settlement al-Ḵān...

ancient Banu Taghlib tribe of Mesopotamia and Arabia. The Hamdanids hailed from Arab Taghlib tribe, and are descendants of Adi ibn Usama al-Taghlibi....

Revolts of the Arabs. Unsuccessful Byzantine attempt to reconquer the Emirate of Crete. 845: Death of the Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani Governor of Khorasan...

Byzantine army. After Arabs from Andalusia took over Crete in 824, it developed into the Arab Emirate of Crete and a base for corsairs that pillaged Byzantium's...

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