Rethymno
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Rethymno is a city in Greece on the island of Crete. It is the capital of Rethymno regional unit, and has a population of more than 35,000 inhabitants. It is believed to have been built on the site of
View of Rethymno with the Venetian Fortezza fortress
View of the old harbour
Inside the Fortezza of Rethymno
Dusk airview of the Old Harbour of Rethymno
History of Crete
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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.
The Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos showing bull-leaping, c. 1450 BC; probably, the dark skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are women
Goddess clay figurine. Neolithic, 5300–3000 BC. Pano Chorio, Ierapetra region, Crete. Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
Crete (Insula Cretica) in Tabula Peutingeriana
Temenos fortress was built by the Byzantines after the reconquest of the island from the Arabs