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Trivia about crete

  • This Mediterranean island shares its name with President Garfield's nickname for his wife
  • Gavdos, an islet administratively part of this larger island, is Europe's southernmost point
  • After a 20-year siege, the Turks took control of this Greek island in 1669 & held it for over 200 years
  • Iraklion is the administrative center of this island, modern Greece's largest
  • Samaria isn't a gorge of the jungle, it's on this Greek isle that was home to the Minoans
  • Politically, this Greek island is divided into 4 departments: Canea, Lasithi, Rethymne & Iraklion
  • When El Greco was born on this isle in 1541, it was under Venetian rule, not Greek
  • Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur
  • The excavated ancient palace of Knossos can be seen when visiting this large Greek island
  • The Minoan civilization, named for the mythological King Minos, was centered on this island
  • Excurstions are available from this largest Greek island to Santorini, which some call the "Lost Atlantis"
  • In 1700 B.C. the palace of Knossos on this Minoan island was destroyed by an earthquake
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Ottoman Empire reached its greatest extent by 1683, with one of its last acquisitions being this island conquered in 1669 after a 21-year siege
  • Around 4,500 years ago, the bronze age Minoan civilization emerged on this Mediterranean island
  • Mementos of the life & work of Nikos Kazantzakis can be found at the Museum in Iraklion on this largest Greek Island
  • Daedalus was imprisoned
  • Ency. Americana says that topless dresses were the fashion of the day for women on this Minoan isle
  • The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the Palace of Knossos on this island
  • Once the Turks took Eracleon in 1669 after a 20-year siege, this Greek island soon fell
  • Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur
  • The legendary labyrinth was found on this island
  • Knossos on this island was the center of a highly developed civilization in the 2nd millennium B.C.
  • It's the southernmost Greek island, & the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean
  • El Greco probably received his early training painting icons on this, his native island
  • Harriet Boyd Hawes was the first woman to discover & excavate a Minoan settlement on this island
  • Work began circa 2000 B.C. on the Palace at Knossos on this island; centuries later it was still going -- oy, contractors
  • Home to the ancient ruined Minoan palace of Knossos, it's Greece's largest island
  • 4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period
  • The first palace at Knossos on this Mediterranean island was built around 2000 B.C.
  • Early cultivation of crocus is depicted in frescoes found in this Mediterranean island's Knossos Archaeology Site
  • Hephaestus made Talus, a man of brass, to guard this island for its ruler Minos