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Topic: Geography of Crete

	Crete - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea.
		Crete is one of the 13 regions of Greece.
		This increase in tourism is reflected on the number of hotel beds, which increased in Crete by 53% from 1986 to 1991 while in the rest of Greece the increase was 25%.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Crete (831 words)

	Samaria Gorge, Geography of Crete, Greek Islands
		The Samaria Gorge is a national park in the island of Crete, one of the major touristic attractions of the island.
		The gorge is in the prefecture of Chania in the South West of Crete.
		, Theseus and the Minotaur, Winemaking in Crete,
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Greece/greece-interest-crete-samaria.html (348 words)

	CRETE WEB - History - Crete the island of dreams, tour, transportation, history, geography, weather, restaurants, ...
		Crete was a strategic point in the eastern Mediterranean and one that the Roman Empire needed.
		Crete was necessary to the Venetians as a cross-road for their commercial interests in the East.
		In December, the Greek flag was raised at the Firkas fortress in Chania, with Venizelos and King Constantine in attendance, and Crete was unified with mainland Greece.
	www.crete-web.gr /crete/history.html (1371 words)

	History of Minoan Crete
		The island of Crete is located in the center of the eastern Mediterranean at the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
		Crete's largest modern town is Heraklion (35° 20' latitude, 25° 08' longitude) and its landscape oscillates between tall, rugged mountains, gentle slopes, and plateaus, which are framed by the Aegean coast line to the North, and the Lybian Sea to the south.
		The temperate climate of Crete with its short, mild winters and its dry, warm summers, along with the fertility of the Cretan plains produces sufficient food supplies to support an affluent local population, and for exports.
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	Gouves Sea Hotel - Welcome
		Crete is also considered to be one of the most prosperous areas in Greece.
		Crete is renowned for its breath-taking mountain ranges and long sandy beaches that take you right down to its deep-blue seas.
		Crete is noted for its geographical diversity, which ranges from numerous small surrounding islands to splendid plateaus like Lassithi, with its eye-catching windmills.
	www.gouves-sea.gr /welcome.html (219 words)

	AllRefer.com - Crete, Greece (Greek Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The rocky northern coast of Crete is deeply indented, and the interior is largely mountainous, culminating in Mt. Ida (8,058 ft/2,456 m).
		IrAklion is the capital of the Crete governorate and is the island's largest city; KhaniA is the only other large city.
		Crete has many small farms, whose chief crops are grains, olives, and oranges, and food processing is its main industry.
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	Adventure in Greece - Explore Greece
		Crete is one of the 13 regions of Greece and the southernmost land of the European Community.
		Part of the Byzantine empire, Crete was taken by the Venetians in 1204 and held until falling to the Ottoman Turks in 1669 after a 20-year siege.
		Crete is also the most northerly point on the globe where certain African trees are encountered.
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	Crete Island - Explore Crete and learn every little secret
		Crete lies at the centre of the eastern Mediterranean basin, where the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa meet.
		Crete’s history dates back well over 4,000 years and it has been labeled 'the birthplace of civilization’.
		Crete is famous for its flora and fauna, too.
	www.thehotel.gr /article.php?NewID=661&CatID=412&hotel_front=100&language_front=english (354 words)

	AllRefer.com - Crete : History, Greece (Greek Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Crete had one of the world's earliest civilizations, the Minoan civilization, named after King Minos, the legendary author of Cretan institutions; in the ruined palace at Knossos invaluable finds have been made.
		The followers of Venizelos controlled Crete during their uprising (1935) against the imminent restoration of the monarchy but were defeated by Gen. George Kondylis.
		The British and Greek forces on the Greek mainland evacuated to Crete in 1941, but they were quickly overwhelmed by the Germans in a large-scale airborne invasion, the first of its kind.
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	Creta Travel Bureau - Crete Info
		Crete lies at the point where the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa meet.
		Crete is set in an area which is geologically unstable and has consequently been affected by frequent earthquakes, some of which in Bronze Age, account for severe destructions of palaces and towns.
		Crete fell to the Romans and was a Roman province until 369 A.D. The first period of Byzantine rule lasted from 395 A.D. until 824 A.D. During this period Crete was part of the Byzantine Empire, which had its capital in Constantinople.
	www.cretatrv.gr /creteinfo.htm (2157 words)

	New York Cretans - Minoan Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crete had an important position in the Aegean, and the use of metals increased her commercial transactions with other nations.
		Such a role for Crete explains why its eastern coast was so full of activity and energy, at a time that Knossos was at a subneolithie stage, which knew no metals.
		The ties Crete had with Asia Minor seem to have loosened, probably because of the Hittite invasions, which caused the decline of eastern Crete.
	www.nycretans.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=27 (857 words)

	Crete, Basic facts, geography and people of Crete
		Crete is a region of Greece, it is the biggest island and the most southern one, except for the little island of Gavdos.
		Crete is one of the 13 administrative divisions of Greece.
		I' ll never forget Cretes beauty and the way it touched a little girls innocent and pure soul and the permanent mark it left to her heart.
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	Knossos Royal Village: Hersonissos crete hotels, accommodation crete, luxurious accommodation greece, conferences in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The island of Crete is the largest of the Greek islands, with a total area of 8,336 km2, 1,100 km of coastline and a population of around 600,000.
		Crete is well known for its natural beauty and impressive mountain ranges, ravines, long stretches of beach leading into deep blue seas, numerous smaller islands, plateaus and fertile plains.
		Crete is home to many poets, as well as endless satirical and laudatory four line couplets, set to the mandolin or lyre, and wonderful a capella music of its streets and hostelries.
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	Atlantis.....Thira?
		Crete, now part of Greece, was the capital for the Minoan people — an advanced civilization with language, commercial shipping, complex architecture, ritual and games.
		A 4-storied palace at Knossos, Crete, was said to be the capitol of the Minoan culture.
		The first sight of Thera that modern day tourists see is the sheer cliffs remaining when the rest of the island dropped into the sea, and these cliffs are a breathtaking mix of white, fl and red stone.
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	interkriti: An introduction to Crete
		Crete is divided to four prefectures: Chania, Rethymno, Heraklion, Lasithi.
		Crete is also known for the quality of its agricultural products that, due to the good climate, are produced all year around.These include olives, grapes, tomatoes, potatoes, oranges etc.
		The main road in Crete is the national road that follows the north seashore of the island from East to West.
	www.interkriti.org /intro.htm (1874 words)

	New York Cretans - Myceneau Civilization and the Dorian Invasion
		The Achaeans or Myceneans brought to Crete a number of things, since their occupation - their dialect, their dress, their beards (which Cretans used to shave) and fashions; their chiton, their house style, with its megaroa, a kind of antechamber with a circular hearth, and their calendar.
		Although the Dorian invasion is dark and confused, as as concerns the unfolding the upset it carried to Crete is beyond dispute.
		New institutions make their appearance: the conquerors are divided into tribes; societies and gymnasia are established; the old inhabitants come under the sattus of serfs, and the apetairei (neither bonded nor enslaved, and excluded from the hetaireiai or societies); they dwell mainly on the eastern section of the island.
	www.nycretans.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=27 (313 words)

	Geography
		Geography affects all our lives, in ways ranging from global questions of territorial conflict or climatic change to local issues of social deprivation or water pollution.
		Our Geography and Economics degree is one of the few available in the UK and allows you to explore the overlaps and differences between their approaches to important current issues of urban and regional development.
		The links between geography and economics are explored both in second year tutorials and, in the third year, in a special course of case studies in regional science.
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	Royal Mare: Hersonissos crete hotels, accommodation crete, luxurious accommodation greece, Hotels in Crete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crete is renowned for its breath-taking mountain ranges and long sandy beaches running down to deep-blue seas.
		The climate and geography of Crete support the existence of a large number of wild-life species.
		Crete is notable for its geographical diversity, from numerous, small surrounding islands to splendid plateaus like Lassithi, with its eye-catching windmills.
	www.aldemarhotels.com /page?id=27&la=1 (951 words)

	Minoans 1
		Crete experiences a large earthquake every fifty years or so -- we're overdue for a big one.
		It would (a) have sent tsunamis of probably 3 meters straight to the inhabited North coast of Crete (the South coast being virtually uninhabitable, because the mountains drop sheer into the sea) and obliterated Minoan towns like Mallia and Kato Zakro.
		On Crete, the Minoans would have seen their fields disappear under a foot or two of ash that no-one could remove.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jglover/files/Minoans1.html (807 words)

	HomeSchool
		The Minoan Civilization was a great and peaceful culture based on the island of Crete, which reigned as long ago as 2200 B.C. The Minoan island of Santorini, later known as Thera, was home to a huge volcano.
		Crete is now a part of modern Greece and lies just south of the Athens across part of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Sometime around 1500 BC it was devastated by a volcanic explosion that may have contributed to the sudden downfall of the Minoan civilization.
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	Crete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Will County authorities charged Allison with one count of animal cruelty Friday after a horse was found dead on her property in unincorporated Crete and four...
		This article is about the Greek island of Crete.
		Crete was the location of Minoan civilization (3000-1400 BC) one of the first civilizations in Europe.
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	Geography of Greece - Crystalinks
		Greece consists of a large mainland at the southern end of the Balkans; the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth); and numerous islands (around 3,000), including Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Euboea and the Dodecanese and Cycladic groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian sea islands.
		We begin to look at the geography of ancient Greece by examining how Greeks lived on their farms, why they traded, road systems, and the plant life that ancient Greece had.
		Geography has always had a great influence on Greece and its inhabitants.
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	Crete Geography, Map of Crete
		Crete is the biggest island in Greece and the second biggest of the East Mediterranean.
		Crete lies approximately 160km south of the Greek mainland and covers an area of 8,336 km?.
		Crete is an island with clear sea-waters, wonderful beaches, bright sun and cool starlit nights.
	www.allcretehotels.com /hotel/geography.php (167 words)

	Artemis travel agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An island of contradictions at the crossroads of three continents, Europe, Africa and Asia, Crete is a distinctive island with varied landscape, wonderful sea, golden beaches, mild climate and long hours of sunshine.
		The White mountains, in the west of the island, Ida or Psiloritis - the highest mountain of all the Aegean islands - in central Crete, and Dikti Massive in the east.
		Administratively, Crete is divided into 4 prefectures: Heraklion, Chania, Rethymno and Lassithi.
	www.creteholidays.net /geography.asp (177 words)

	Geographical Features
		Crete is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean, with a length of approximately 256 kilometres (160 miles) and a width which varies from 12.8 to 60 kilometres (8 to 38 miles).
		Crete is reputed to have over 3000 caves, half of the caves in all Greece.
		Ravines, passes and gorges are inevitable in mountainous areas but the Samaria Gorge in Western Crete is the largest in Europe, sometimes dubbed 'Europe's Grand Canyon'.
	users.panafonet.gr /mhatzas/crete/geographical.htm (596 words)

	Ierapetra Crete Greece
		Crete is the largest island in Greece, 5th largest in the Mediterranean and 11th in Europe.
		Crete's length from east to west is 260 km.
		Ierapetra is situated on the southeast coast with approx.
	www.ierapetra.net /iergeo.html (195 words)

	Artemis travel agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crete’s climate is probably the mildest and healthiest in Europe.
		Autumn is Crete’s mildest season and it is usually hotter than spring.
		The best time to visit Crete is from April to June and from September until October, when the temperature is pleasant without being too hot like in July and August.
	www.creteholidays.net /climate.asp (153 words)

	Learn more about Crete in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Learn more about Crete in the online encyclopedia.
		Crete (Greek Κρητη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea.
		It has an area of 8,300 square kilometres, a coastline of 1,040 kilometres, and a population of over 500,000.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/cr/crete.html (220 words)

	Crete Island .. in brief
		Since 1912, when Crete was liberated, constitutes one of the most beautiful places to visit.
		The villages at Crete, maintain the traditional Cretan rhythms of living which have not changed in centureis: Traditional fiesta of marriages that are lasting two and three days, traditional dances like sousta and pentozali to the sound of Cretan lyre accompanied by old Cretan wine.
		The characteristics that make Crete unique is the local food specialists and the astonishing hospitality that is offered to all the visitors of the island.
	www.greece.org /poseidon/work/islands/crete/inbrief.html (507 words)

	Chania: Bibliography
		DETORAKIS, Theocharis, "Crete in the Turkish Era, 1669-1898", in N. Panayotakis (ed.), Crete: History and Civilization, vol.
		Geography, History, and Population Statistics, Athens, 1903 (in Greek).
		Crete and Ionian Islands, Athens, 1934 (in Greek).
	www.unibg.it /walledtowns/chania8.htm (494 words)

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