The island of Crete (Ottoman Turkish: كریت, romanized: Girit) was declared an Ottoman province (eyalet) in 1646, after the Ottomans managed to conquer...

Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit (كريد). In the Hebrew Bible, Crete is referred to as (כְּרֵתִים) "kretim". Crete is the...

the Venetian Republic, the Ottoman Empire, an autonomous state, and the modern state of Greece. Excavations in South Crete in 2008–2009 revealed stone...

most of Crete was conquered by the Ottomans in the first few years of the war, the fortress of Candia (modern Heraklion), the capital of Crete, resisted...

Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia) on the island of Crete. In 1897, the Cretan Revolt led the Ottoman Empire to declare war on Greece, which led the United...

was a successful insurrection by the Greek population of Crete against the rule of the Ottoman Empire after decades of rising tensions. The Greek insurrectionists...

attention of the Ottoman Empire. In the long and devastating Cretan War (1645–1669), the two states fought over the possession of Crete: the Ottomans quickly overran...

the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause involved the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek-majority population...

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...

island of Crete as a whole as well as to the city alone; the Ottoman name was Kandiye.[citation needed] After the Byzantine reconquest of Crete, the city...

descendants of ethnic Greeks who had converted to Islam after the Ottoman conquest of Crete in the seventeenth century. They identified as Greek Muslims,...

and fountains were a feature of the Ottoman city. The pasha of Crete resided in Hanya. The city remained under Ottoman control despite fighting during the...

all years combined from 1500 to 1644. A study of the slave market of Ottoman Crete produces details about the prices of slaves. Factors such as age, race...

War of 1897, to intervene in a native Greek rebellion on Crete against rule by the Ottoman Empire. Warships from Austria-Hungary, France, the German...

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fell in 1571, and the Venetians retained Crete until 1669. The Ionian Islands were never ruled by the Ottomans, with the exception of Kefalonia (from 1479...

in Crete as a means of limiting their desire to rise up against their Ottoman overlords. However the Muslims of Crete, who identified with Ottoman Empire...

Revolution (Μεγάλη Κρητική Επανάσταση) was a three-year uprising in Crete against Ottoman rule, the third and largest in a series of Cretan revolts between...

of the Austrian post-offices presence in Crete and the use of French currency on Austrian stamps in the Ottoman Empire. Along with several other nations...

rest of Crete fell to the Ottomans in the Cretan War (1645–1669). In 1715, Spinalonga was taken over by the Ottomans during the last Ottoman–Venetian...

attack on the Ottoman Empire, seeking revenge for successive conquests of its overseas empire by the Turks, most recently (1669) the loss of Crete. Venetian...

the Ottoman Empire lost its dominion over the island of Crete. After 1897, when the Ottoman Empire lost control of the island, they sent ships to protect...

The siege of Candia (now Heraklion, Crete) was a military conflict in which Ottoman forces besieged the Venetian-ruled capital city of the Kingdom of...

Spyropoulos Yannis, Slaves and freedmen in 17th- and early 18th-century Ottoman Crete, Turcica, 46, 2015, p. 181, 182. "Main ethnic groups of immigrants in...

against the Ottoman occupation of the island. This insurrection is part of a larger movement for independence from the Ottoman Empire, which Crete was part...

1883 in the town of Kandiye (now Heraklion) in Crete, with origins from the village of Myrtia. Crete had not yet joined the modern Greek state (which...

Ottomans and paying a tribute of 300,000 ducats. The large and wealthy island of Cyprus had been under Venetian rule since 1489. Together with Crete,...

Rethymno, Crete (then part of the Ottoman Empire). He studied law at Athens University, and economics in Paris and London. He returned to Crete aged 24...

(1571) The Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War or the Cretan War (1645–1669), resulting in the capture of Crete by the Ottomans The Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War or...

1919 to 1922. Stergiadis was born in 1861, in Kandiye (Heraklion), Ottoman Crete, Ottoman Empire). He was appointed the High Commissioner of Smyrna in February...