The island of Crete came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire in two periods: the first extends from the late antique period (3rd century) to the conquest of the island by Andalusian exiles in the late 820s, and the second from the island's reconquest in 961 to its capture by the competing forces of Genoa and Venice in 1205.
The island of Crete came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire in two periods: the first extends from the late antique period (3rd century) to the conquest...
existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire in 961. Although the emirate recognized...
Age, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-influenced organization of city-states, then successively became part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire...
in Crete and reinforced the Byzantine religion and culture on the island. The city of Canea during the period that followed was a blend of Byzantine, Venetian...
Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece. Crete was later ruled by Rome, then successively by the Byzantine Empire, Andalusian Arabs, the Venetian Republic...
Chandax in 960-961 was the centerpiece of the Byzantine Empire's campaign to recover the island of Crete which since the 820s had been ruled by Muslim...
resurgence of the Byzantine Empire during the 10th century. In the east, Nikephoros completed the conquest of Cilicia and retook the islands of Crete and Cyprus...
(2022). Change and transition on Crete interpreting the evidence from the Hellenistic through to the early Byzantine period. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology...
families in Crete, a hereditary landed aristocracy that had emerged as imperial authority declined, much like elsewhere in the Byzantine world of time...
The 365 Crete earthquake occurred at about sunrise on 21 July 365 in the Eastern Mediterranean, with an assumed epicentre near Crete. Geologists today...
romanized: Venetokratía, or Ενετοκρατία, Enetokratía). The island of Crete had formed part of the Byzantine Empire until 1204, when the Fourth Crusade dissolved the...
Andrew of Crete (Greek: Ἀνδρέας Κρήτης, c. 650 – July 4, 712 or 726 or 740), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was an 8th-century bishop, theologian...
came to control ByzantineCrete by 1212, and Byzantine artistic traditions continued long after the Ottoman conquest of the last Byzantine successor state...
island of Crete as a whole as well as to the city alone; the Ottoman name was Kandiye.[citation needed] After the Byzantine reconquest of Crete, the city...
Emperor Diocletian in the 290s, Crete's governor held the rank of consularis. Crete became part of the East Roman or Byzantine Empire upon the partition of...
Byzantine medicine encompasses the common medical practices of the Byzantine Empire from c. 400 AD to 1453 AD. Byzantine medicine was notable for building...
Byzantine Greece has a history that mainly coincides with that of the Byzantine Empire itself. The Greek peninsula became a Roman protectorate in 146...
Black Sea (and most of the historical territories of the Byzantine Empire), including Greece, Crete (Cretan lyra), Karpathos (Karpathian lyra), Albania, Montenegro...
ascetic, Christian saint and founder of churches and monasteries on ByzantineCrete. He wrote an autobiography in Greek, Bios kai politeia. John's life...
Karykes (Greek: Καρύκης, Latinised Caryces) was the Byzantine governor of Crete who led a rebellion that began in 1090 or 1091 and lasted into 1092 or...
which claims descent from Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, and were at one stage the most powerful noble family of Crete. According to later tradition...
The music of Crete (Greek: Κρητική μουσική), also called kritika (Greek: κρητικά), refers to traditional forms of Greek folk music prevalent on the island...
(cf. alderman). Nicephorus Phocas, general of the Greek Byzantine forces sent to liberate Crete, appointed large numbers of Sfakian warriors to defend...
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