history of Crete (Ιστορία της Κρήτης)

“They are a truly admirable people who learnt to hold on stubbornly throughout the tumultous events of forty centuries to their native character and local speech. Courage, mingled with an independent spirit that is often close to downright disobedience, a lively wit, vivid imagination, and a language full of images, spontaneous and unaffected, love for every kind of adventure, an indefatigable urge for freedom, that goes hand in hand with an insatiable desire for bravado…

A fertile land that has always given birth to the worthiest or men both in Church and State, in science and letters, in the economy and in war…” (From the publisher)

PREHISTORIC CRETE

DORIAN CRETE

THE ROMAN PERIOD

THE PERIOD OF VENETIAN RULE

THE PERIOD OF OTTOMAN RULE IN CRETE

EPILOGUE: LIBERATED CRETE (1913-1941)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

PICTURES – MAPS – PHOTOGRAPHS

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