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is the largest and most
populous of the Greek
islands, the fif th-largest island in
the Mediterranean Sea, and one
of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms
a significant part of the economy
and cultural heritage of
Greece while retaining its own
local cultural traits
CRETE
ODESSE
Y An island of southeast
Greece in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea. Its
Minoan civilization, centered
at the city of Knossos on the
northern coast, was one of
the earliest in the world and
reached the height of its
wealth and power c.
1600 B.C. Crete subsequently
fell to the Greeks, Romans,
Byzantines, Arabs, Venetians,
and Ottoman Turks. The
islanders proclaimed their
union with modern Greece in
1908.