The bays and gulfs of the Aegean beginning at the South and moving clockwise include on Crete, the Mirabelli, Almyros, Souda and Chania bays or gulfs, on the mainland the Myrtoan Sea to the west, the Saronic Gulf northwestward, the Petalies Gulf which connects with the South Euboic Sea, the Pagasetic Gulf which connects with the North Euboic Sea, the Thermian Gulf northwestward, the Chalkidiki Peninsula including the Cassandra and the Singitic Gulfs, northward the Strymonian Gulf and the Gulf of Kavala and the rest are in Turkey ; Saros Gulf, Edremit Gulf, Dikili Gulf, Çandarlı Gulf, İzmir Gulf, Kuşadası Gulf, Gulf of Gökova, Güllük Gulf.

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.

Although his home has been traditionally identified as one of the Aeolian Islands ( there is little consensus as to which ), near Sicily, an alternative location has been suggested at Gramvousa off the northwest coast of Crete.

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.

Within a week Bonaparte had resupplied his ships, and on 19 June his fleet departed for Alexandria in the direction of Crete, leaving 4, 000 men at Valletta under General Claude-Henri Vaubois to ensure French control of the islands.

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.

Nearly every rural household on Crete has at least one unregistered gun.

Crete has a lot of football clubs playing in the local leagues: OFI Crete, which plays at Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium ( Iraklion ), and Ergotelis F. C., which plays at the Pankritio Stadium ( Iraklion ) are both members of Superleague Greece.

One such area is located at the island of Elafonisi on the coast of southwestern Crete.

" In Bronze Age Crete, an inscription da-da-re-jo-de has been read as referring to a place at Knossos, and a place of worship.

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

* 1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4, 000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.

The earliest known examples frescoes done in the Buon Fresco method date at around 1500 BC and are to be found on the island of Crete in Greece.

It described how the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey ( MIT ) had formed two teams: one which carried out bombings at tourist sites on Crete and other parts of Greece and another which was responsible for starting the wildfires.

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos ) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

In classical Greece the priests at Delphi were called Labryades ()-the men of the double axe .- The complex palace of Knossos in Crete is usually implicated, though the actual dancing-ground, depicted in frescoed patterns at Knossos, has not been found.

Heraklion is the largest city and capital of Crete.

At the beginning of the 20th century, archaeologist Arthur Evans began excavating Knossos, an ancient city on the island of Crete.

In fact, observations made by Polybius, in conjunction with passages from Strabo and Scylax, allowed the discovery of the location of the lost city of Kydonia on Crete.

* 1263 – Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.

* Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.

During these periods, Canaanites profited from their intermediary position between the ancient civilisations of the Middle East — Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia ( Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia ), the Hittites, and Minoan Crete — to become city states of merchant princes along the coast, with small kingdoms specializing in agricultural products in the interior.

* Kydonia, an ancient city on the island of Crete falls to Roman military forces.

Chania (,, Venetian: Canea, Ottoman Turkish: خانيه Hanya ) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit.

The city of Chania lies around from the west end of Crete.

The British force that faced the German paratroopers during the Battle Of Crete in 1941, had artillery elements over the hill of Dexameni in the south of the city.

Heraklion, or Heraclion also Iraklion ( ) is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece.

This was hellenized as Χάνδαξ ( Handax ) or Χάνδακας and Latinized as Candia, which was taken into other European languages: in Italian as Candia ( used under the Venetian rule ), in French as Candie, in English as Candy, all of which could refer to all of Crete as well as to the city itself ; the Ottoman name was Kandiye.

In 961, Imperial forces under the command of Nikephoros Phokas, later to become Emperor, landed in Crete and attacked the city.

The city retained the name of Candia for centuries and the same name was often used to refer to the whole island of Crete as well.

Under the Ottomans, the city was known officially as Kandiye ( again also applied to the whole island of Crete ) but informally in Greek as Megalo Castro ( Μεγάλο Κάστρο ; " Big Castle ").

European route E75 runs through the city and connects Heraklion with the three other major cities of Crete: Agios Nikolaos, Chania, and Rethymno.

There are a number of buses serving the city and connecting it to many major destinations in Crete.

As a large part of the Spartan army led by king Areus I is in Crete at the time, Pyrrhus has great hopes of taking the city easily, but the citizens organise stout resistance, allowing one of Antigonus II's commanders, Aminias the Phocian, to reach the city with a force of mercenaries from Corinth.

A competing theory holds that the name is derived from the district of Malevizi, near the city of Heraklion ( known to the Venetians as Candia ) on Crete.

Knossos ( alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Greek Κνωσός, currently refers to the main Bronze Age archaeological site at Heraklion, a modern port city on the north central coast of Crete.

" An early form of the temple is the hearth house ; the early temples at Dreros and Prinias on Crete are of this type as indeed is the temple of Apollo at Delphi which always had its inner hestia " The Mycenaean great hall, such as the hall of Odysseus at Ithaca was a megaron, with a central hearth fire.

* Orestas ( son of Erymneus ) from Aspendos proxenos in Dreros ( Crete ) ( end 3rd-beg.

He conducted several excavations on Crete at Dreros, Arkalochori, Vathypetro and Gazi, all of which resulted in spectacular finds.