Apollo Delphinios was a sea-god especially worshiped in Crete and in the islands, and his name indicates his connection with Delphi and the holy serpent Delphyne ( womb ).

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenean Civilization of the Peloponnese.

Kythira was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.

After this his name is not mentioned until after Paul's first imprisonment, when he was engaged in the organization of the church in Crete, where Paul had left him for this purpose.

His relics, now consisting of only his skull, are venerated in the Church of St. Titus, Heraklion, Crete to which it was returned in 1966 after being removed to Venice during the Turkish occupation.

In order to spare the economy of the community, it was ordered that appeals from the governor's decision should be heard on Crete, instead of Venice.

Jerome states that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired to Crete with Zenas, a doctor of the law ; and that the schism having been healed by Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Apollos returned to the city, and became its bishop.

It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis.

Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.

* From " Crete ", where iodine insufficiency ( hypothyroidism ) was common prior to the modern era.

The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.

Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit ( Ottoman Turkish: كريت, as recorded by Piri Reis ).

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

Later, Cretans believed that the island was cleared of dangerous creatures by the Apostle Paul, who lived on the island of Crete for two years, with his exorcisms and blessings.

Early Cycladic culture evolved in three phases, between ca 3300-2000 BCE, when it was increasingly swamped in the rising influence of Minoan Crete.

He also created the Labyrinth on Crete, in which the Minotaur ( part man, part bull ) was kept.

Epimenides was a 6th Century BC philosopher and religious prophet who, against the general sentiment of Crete, proposed that Zeus was immortal, as in the following poem:

Titus was later left on the island of Crete to help organize the Church, although he soon went to Dalmatia, Croatia.

He was buried in Cortyna ( Gortyna ), Crete ; his head was later translated to Venice during the invasion of Crete by the Saracens in 832 and was enshrined in St. Mark ’ s, Venice, Italy.

One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages — Crete ; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.

Heraklion is close to the ruins of the palace of Knossos, which in Minoan times was the largest centre of population on Crete.

Crete, for the present, must be regarded as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.

Crete was the centre of Europe's most ancient civilization, the Minoan.

The position of Milos, between mainland Greece and Crete, and its possession of obsidian, made it an important centre of early Aegean civilization.

1300 – 1190 BCE ), Ugarit was at the centre of the literate world, among Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, Crete, and Mesopotamia.

The town has its own library, community centre and two theatres ( Crete Street Theatre and Phoenix Ensemble ).

If all the islands of Europe, from Azores to the Franz Joseph Land and from Crete to Iceland, are taken into consideration, it is claimed that the centre of Europe lies on the island of Saaremaa in western Estonia, in Mõnnuste village, at.

Based on distance calculations to the extreme points of Europe ( Franz Josef Land in the Northeast, the border between the Russian Federation and the states of Georgia and Azerbaijan at the Caspian Sea in the Southeast, Crete in the South and the Azores in the Southwest ) the centre of Europe will surprisingly be found in Southern Norway near in the Telemark region.

If only continental Europe is of interest and outlying islands like Iceland, Franz Josef Land and the Azores are being disregarded, thus having the extreme points in Northern Norway, Gibraltar and again in Crete and the Caucasus region, and again based on distances, the centre of Europe would actually be in Poland, somewhere near somewhat North of the city of Poznań.

; five of these pierced tiles on either side would have amply lighted the interior of the ceila, and the amount of rain passing through ( a serious element to be considered in a country where torrential rains occasionally fall ) would not be very great 01 more than could be retained to dry up in the ceila sunk pavement In favor of both these methods of lighting the interior of th ~ cella, the sarcophagus tomb at Cyrene, about 20 ft. ( 6m ) long, carved in imitation of a temple, has been adduced, because, on the tor of the roof and in its centre, there is a raised coping, and a similar feature is found on a tomb found near Delos ; an example from Crete now in the British Museum shows a pierced tile on each side of the roof, and a large number of pierced tiles have been found in Pompeii, some of them surrounded with a rim identical with that of the marble tiles at Bassae.

Lake Voulismeni ( Greek: Λίμνη Βουλισμένη, Límni Voulisméni ) is a former sweetwater small lake, later connected to the sea, located at the centre of the town of Agios Nikolaos on the Greek island of Crete It has a circular shape of a diameter of 137 m and depth 64 m. The locals refer to it as just " the lake ".

Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

* Detailed cultural studies of Minoan Crete and relations with the mainland " Mycenean " tribes of Achaians

Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.

The Cyclades converge with the mainland during the Early Helladic (" Minyan ") period and with Crete in the Middle Minoan period.

1450 BC ( Late Helladic, Late Minoan ), the Greek Mycenaean civilization spreads to Crete.

Board game with inlays of ivory, rock crystal and glass paste, covered with gold and silver leaf, on a wooden base ( Knossos, Minoan chronology | New Palace period 1600 – 1500 B. C., Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete )

The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete ( c. 1500 – 900 BC ), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains ( c. 2000 – 1000 BC ).

By the late Bronze Age, however, a series of treaties had established safe passage for merchants around the Eastern Mediterranean, spreading from Minoan Crete and Mycenae in the northwest to Elam and Bahrain in the southeast.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Evidence of deforestation has been found in Minoan Crete ; for example the environs of the Palace of Knossos were severely deforested in the Bronze Age.

Cyprus and the other islands developed, and the Minoan civilization flourished on the island of Crete.

* There was a lack of direct contacts between Hitto-Luwians and Minoan Crete ; the latter was never mentioned in Hitto-Luwian inscriptions.

Small states located along the western coast of ancient Asia Minor were natural barriers between Hitto-Luwians and Minoan Crete.

Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek ( Minoan ) origin absorbed by Classical Greek and is perhaps related to the Lydian labrys (" double-edged axe ", a symbol of royal power, which fits with the theory that the labyrinth was originally the royal Minoan palace on Crete and meant " palace of the double-axe "), with-inthos meaning " place " ( as in Corinth ).

The slaying of the Minotaur by Theseus in that case indicates the breaking of Athenian tributary relations with Minoan Crete.

The Minoan civilization of Crete has been named after him by the archaeologist Arthur Evans.

If royal succession in Minoan Crete descended matrilinearly — from the queen to her firstborn daughter — the queen's husband would have become the Minos, or war chief.

As far back as 3000 BC, olives were grown commercially in Crete ; they may have been the source of the wealth of the Minoan civilization.

Similar myths appear in the Orient, in the cults of male gods like Attis, Adonis and Osiris, and in Minoan Crete.

It seems that such religious practices were introduced from Minoan Crete, Similar practices appear also in the Orient.