Emirate of Crete
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The Emirate of Crete was an Arab Islamic state that existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire in 961. Although the emirate
A monk shows the Saracens where to build Chandax.
The Byzantines led by Krateros disembark and defeat the Cretan Saracens
The Saracens chase and hang Krateros at Kos.
The Saracens attack at night and slay the sleeping Byzantines.
Crete
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Crete is the largest and most populous island of Greece, the 89th largest island in the world, and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete
Emirate of Crete
…إقريطش, romanized: Iqrīṭish or إقريطية, Iqrīṭiya; Greek: Κρήτη, romanized: Krētē) was an Arab Islamic state that existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire in 961. Although the emirate recognized the suzerainty of the Abbasid Caliphate…
NASA photograph of Crete
Messara Plain
The palm beach of Vai
Lefka Ori