Dakos, traditional Cretan salad.

Kalli Dakos ( born June 16, 1950 ) is a Canadian children's poet and teacher.

In 1914 a " Battalion of Gendarmerie of the Expeditionary Army " was created, consisting of four companies, mainly reservist gendarmes of the Cretan Gendarmerie.

The element De-may be connected with Deo, a surname of Demeter probably derived from the Cretan word dea (), Ionic zeia () meaning " barley ", so that she is the Corn-Mother and the giver of food generally.

The dish shares some similarities with the tomato and olive oil rubbed Ħobż biz-Zejt of Malta, with the Pan-bagnat of Nice, in the Provence region of France and the tomato topped version of Italian bruschetta, and the Cretan meze dakos.

After his death, Aeacus became ( along with the Cretan brothers Rhadamanthus and Minos ) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especially for the shades of Europeans.

The Greeks of the autonomous Cretan State proclaimed unification with Greece, though the opposition of the Great Powers prevented the latter action from taking practical effect.

During the Cretan summer, average temperatures reach the high 20s-low 30s Celsius ( mid 80s to mid 90s Fahrenheit ), with maxima touching the upper 30s-mid 40s.

The island is known for its Mantinades-based music ( typically performed with the Cretan lyra and the laouto ) and has many indigenous dances, the most noted of which is the Pentozali.

Other terrestrial mammals include subspecies of the Cretan marten, the Cretan weasel, the Cretan badger, the long-eared hedgehog, the edible dormouse, and the Cretan shrew, a unique endemic species of mammal in Greece, that is unfortunately threatened with extinction.

The epithet is connected with dolphins ( Greek δελφίς ,- ῖνος ) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( line 400 ), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back.

It is named after the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos ( alive circa 600 BC ) who is credited with the original statement.

* Apáki: a famous Cretan specialty ; lean pork marinated in vinegar, then smoked with aromatic herbs and shrubs, and packed in salt.

Studies by Hubert La Marle include a presentation of the morphology of the language, avoid the complete identification of phonetic values between Linear A and B, and also avoid comparing Linear A with Cretan Hieroglyphs.

Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit multicursal patterns, the unicursal seven-course " Classical " design became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and became widely used to represent the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze.

This overturned Evans ' theories of Minoan history by establishing that Cretan civilization, at least in the later periods associated with the Linear B tablets, had been part of Mycenean Greece.

To punish Minos, Aphrodite made Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull from the sea, the Cretan Bull.

* Origanum vulgare onites ( Cretan oregano, Turkish oregano, rigani, pot marjoram ) is a tender perennial growing to 18 inches tall, with pale green to gray-green woolly rounded foliage.

Cretan hieroglyphs are found on artifacts of Crete ( early-to-mid-2nd millennium BC, MM I to MM III, overlapping with Linear A from MM IIA at the earliest ).

Now they were working with the British trying to build a credible Cretan government.

The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story ; as Kerényi points out " most of the love-stories concerning Zeus originated from more ancient tales describing his marriages with goddesses.

Kydonia was constantly at war with other Cretan city-states such as Aptera, Phalasarna and Polyrrinia and was important enough for the Kydonians to be mentioned in Homer's Odyssey ( iii. 330 ).

Contact with Venice led to close intertwining of Cretan and Venetian cultures, without, however, the Cretans losing their Greek Orthodox nature.

In 1898, during the final moves towards independence and enosis — union with Greece — the Great Powers made Chania the capital of the semi-autonomous Cretan State (" Kritiki Politeia "), with Prince George of Greece, the High Commissioner of Crete living here.

The double-axe ( λάβρυς: labrys ) was the holy symbol of the Cretan labyrinth.

The Homeric hymn adds that Apollo appeared as a dolphin and carried Cretan priests to Delphi, where they evidently transferred their religious practices.

Another contender for the birthplace of Apollo is the Cretan islands of Paximadia.

According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.

We find Cretan vessels exported to Melos, Egypt and the Greek mainland.

In Egypt in 1887, W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889.

In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.

In ancient Cretan history Leto was worshipped at Phaistos and in Cretan mythology Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia.

He will then tell Lycus that she has died of the Cretan plague, and will offer to remove the body.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

A Cretan Snake Goddess from the Minoan Civilization, ca.

The League found itself unable to create a new political system, until the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser.

Cretan authors have made important contributions to Greek Literature throughout the modern period ; major names include Vikentios Kornaros, creator of the 17th century epic romance Erotokritos ( Greek Ερωτόκριτος ), and in the 20th century Nikos Kazantzakis.

In the Renaissance, Crete was the home of the Cretan School of icon painting, which influenced El Greco and through him subsequent European painting.

Black is the color of mourning, and since Cretan families are notionally considered so extended as to include great-grandparents or second cousins ( although they may have little actual contact ) as well as all their respective in-laws, one is theoretically justified to be in continuous mourning for some relative or other, however distant.

Cretan society is well known for notorious family and clan vendettas which remain on the island to date.

All three sectors of the Cretan economy ( agriculture / farming, processing-packaging, services ), are directly connected and interdependent.