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The Cretan expedition occurred in Autumn 828, where the Byzantine army invaded the island of Crete which was held by the Arabs. The expedition ended in...

827/828, the diversion of ships and men to counter the gradual conquest of Sicily by the Tunisian Aghlabids also interfered. The first expedition, under...

the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2023. Portuguese expedition to Otranto Hollegger, Manfred (2005). Maximilian I. (1459-1519): Herrscher...

Ottoman-era converts to Islam from Greek Macedonia (e.g., Vallahades), Crete (Cretan Muslims), and northeastern Anatolia (particularly in the regions of Trabzon...

the struggle against the Abbasids on their eastern frontier and with the Cretan Saracens in the Aegean Sea, it was unable to mount a sustained effort to...

son, Shu'ayb. Surnamed al-Ghaliz ("the Fat") and later al-Iqritishi ("the Cretan"), and usually known as Abu Hafs (Arabic: أبو حفص, in Greek sources Ἀπόχαψ[ις]...

Phrygian mountain goddess, probably associated with Cybele, was later a Cretan nymph, and daughter of Melisseus, who was charged by Rhea with nurturing...

Oikonomidis, N. (1980). "Οι αυθένται των Κρητών το 1118" [The lords of the Cretans in 1118]. Πεπραγμένα του Δ' Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου, Ηράκλειο,...

the 17th century also had prolonged wars with the Ottoman Empire; in the Cretan War (1645–1669), after a heroic siege that lasted 21 years, Venice lost...

daughter of the discoverer, Norman Pogson. DMP · 42 43 Ariadne – Ariadne, Cretan princess and daughter of king Minos from Greek mythology, who sent every...

she committed suicide to join him XII: 405-423 Ianthe Cretan girl who was engaged to Iphis (Cretan girl). IX: 715-797 Icarus Son of Daedalus. Daedalus constructed...

intelligence which warned him of an airborne assault and even named the three Cretan airfields targeted, and persisted in keeping the majority of his forces...

Siege of Candia – 1648 – 1669 – Cretan War (1645–1669) (Ottoman–Venetian wars) Action of 10 July 1651 – 1651 – Cretan War (1645–1669) (Ottoman–Venetian...

Trigonopterus weevils from Sulawesi". ZooKeys (828): 1–153. Bibcode:2019ZooK..828....1R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.828.32200. PMC 6418079. PMID 30940991. Lehmann...

galleys from Algiers and Tunis enters the Adriatic 1645 – Beginning of the Cretan War (1645–69) (Candian War) between Venice and the Ottoman Turks. Although...

source of threat to the islands and coasts of the Byzantine Empire. The Cretan fleet initiated a series of incursions along the Byzantine coastline, seizing...

"Ibrahim the Mad", wanted to arrest Ali Bitchin for refusing to join the Cretan War, but the population rose up against him. The diwân demanded that Ali...

BC) Siege of Utica (204 BC) – Second Punic War Siege of Abydos (200 BC) – Cretan War (205–200 BC) Siege of Gythium (195 BC) – War against Nabis Siege of...

the Saracen invasion of Byzantine Sicily, which lasted from 827 to 902. 828 Death of Patr. Nicephorus I of Constantinople. c. 829–842 Icon of Panagia...