- was the home of the
Cretan School of icon painting,
which influenced El
Greco and
through him
subsequent European painting.
Cretans are
proud of their...
- diaspora. The
Cretan dialect is
spoken by the
majority of the
Cretan Gr****s on the
island of Crete, as well as by
several thousands of
Cretans who have settled...
- late as 1967, the
Cretans and the 'local Turks' did not mix in some towns; they
continued to
speak Gr**** and
mostly married other Cretans. As of 2006[update]...
- "all
Cretans are liars" is "all
Cretans are honest" (a paradox) when in fact the
negation is "there
exists a
Cretan who is honest", or "not all
Cretans are...
- native-born
Cretans,
Christian and Muslim. It was
agreed that a new body of
Gendarmerie would be
formed and
recruited only from
Cretans. In 1889, however...
- the
Cretans with
General Kreipe during Kreipe's abduction,
summarised the
Cretan's attitude to the
German occupation as :
Leigh Fermor: "The
Cretans are...
-
Cretan hieroglyphs are a
hieroglyphic writing system used in
early Bronze Age Crete,
during the
Minoan era. They
predate Linear A by
about a century, but...
- The
Cretan League or
Koinon of the
Cretans (Ancient Gr****: τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Κρητῶν, romanized: to
koinon ton Kreton,
originally τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Κρηταιέων) was...
-
Cretan cuisine (Gr****: Κρητική κουζίνα) is the
traditional cuisine of the Gr****
island of Crete. The core of the
Cretan cuisine consists of food derived...
- The
Cretan State (Gr****: Κρητική Πολιτεία, romanized: Kritiki Politeia;
Ottoman Turkish: كرید دولتی, romanized: Girid Devleti) was
established in 1898...
