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...

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...

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")...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

raided the Christian northern shores of the Mediterranean almost at will. The establishment of the Emirate of Crete, which became a haven for Muslim ships...

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

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

was the second Emir of Crete, ruling c. 855 – c. 880. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary...

was the ninth Emir of Crete, reigning from c. 943–949. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary...

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

the seventh emir of Crete, reigning from c. 925–940. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmented...

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...

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...

Revolt took place in the suburb of Saqunda of the city of Córdoba, capital of the Emirate of Córdoba, in the spring of the year 818, coinciding with Ramadan...

the eighth Emir of Crete, reigning from c. 940–943. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

captured by Arabs in 824, and it became the capital of the Emirate of Crete. At this point, they built a wall of unbaked bricks around the city, and surrounded...

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...

of the absence of much of the Byzantine army on a campaign against the Emirate of Crete, the Hamdanid prince launched another invasion of Asia Minor. He...