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The Heraklion Archaeological Museum displays most of the archaeological finds of the Minoan era.
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Heraklion and Archaeological
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 )
Rhyton in the shape of a bull's head, Heraklion Archaeological Museum ; shown here at the Greek pavilion at Expo ' 88
Heraklion and Museum
The Natural History Museum of Crete, established in 1981 at Heraklion, is also part of the University of Crete.
Heraklion and most
Heraklion has been the home town of some of Greece's most significant spirits, including the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis, the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis and the world-famous painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos ( El Greco ).
Ottoman forces had captured most of the island in the early years of the war, but where unable to seize its capital, the heavily fortified city of Candia ( modern Heraklion ).
Within the Heraklion regional unit's boundaries are a number of significant Neolithic and Minoan settlements, most notably the ancient palace complexes of Knossos and Phaistos.
Heraklion and archaeological
Though there is no archaeological evidence of it, Knossos may well have had a port at the site of Heraklion as long ago as 2000 BC.
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.
Today, the name is used only for the archaeological site now situated in the expanding suburbs of Heraklion.
Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna () is a municipality and an archaeological site on the Mediterranean island of Crete, 45 km away from the modern capital Heraklion.
Heraklion and Minoan
Heraklion is close to the ruins of the palace of Knossos, which in Minoan times was the largest centre of population on Crete.
The island is visible from Crete's capital city of Heraklion, as it would have been in the time of the Minoan kingdom, from the capital of Knossos.
Heraklion and .
* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
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.
The island has three significant airports, Nikos Kazantzakis at Heraklion, the Daskalogiannis airport at Chania and a smaller one in Sitia.
Fifteen percent of all arrivals in Greece come through the city of Heraklion ( port and airport ), while charter journeys to Heraklion last year made up 20 % of all charter flights in Greece.
Visitors reach the island via two international airports in Heraklion and Chania and a smaller airport in Sitia ( international charter and domestic flights starting May 2012 ) or by boat to the main ports of Heraklion, Chania, Rethimno, Agios Nikolaos and Sitia.
The British expatriates are concentrated in the western regional units of Chania and Rethymno and to a lesser extent in Heraklion and Lasithi.
The Cretaquarium and the Aquaworld Aquarium, are two of only three aquariums in Greece, they are located in Heraklion and Hersonissos respectively, and examples of the local sealife can be seen there.
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.
In the 2011 Tarsem Singh film, Immortals, Theseus ( played by Henry Cavill ) leads a war against the mortal king Hyperion ( played by Mickey Rourke ) of Heraklion.
* December 8 – The Typaldos Line's ferry Heraklion sinks in rough seas, in the Aegean Sea near Crete, leaving 217 dead.
* August 25 – 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece, leading to the establishment of the autonomous Cretan State.
In 1894, Arthur, always an active man, intrigued by the idea that the script engraved on the stones he had purchased before Margaret's death might be Cretan, his grief abated, steamed off to Heraklion to join the circle of watchers.
Arriving in Heraklion he did not connect with his friends immediately, but took the opportuniy to examine the excavations at Knossos.
The current distance and duration record recognised by the FAI was achieved on 23 April 1988 from Heraklion on Crete to Santorini in a MIT Daedalus 88 piloted by Kanellos Kanellopoulos: a straight distance of in 3 hours, 54 minutes.
Heraklion, or Heraclion also Iraklion ( ) is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece.
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