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  2. Crete - Wikipedia

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    Crete was the center of Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. The Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece. Crete was later ruled by Rome, then successively by the Byzantine Empire, Andalusian Arabs, the Byzantine Empire again, the Venetian Republic, and the Ottoman ...

  3. List of lighthouses in Greece - Wikipedia

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    The structure is unpained. The Venetian lighthouse of the Port of Rethymnon is the second largest Egyptian Lighthouse of Crete, after the lighthouse of Chania. [5] Sidero (Corfu) Lighthouse: Ionian Sea: Ionian Islands: Corfu: 1828 8 metres (26 feet) 78 metres (256 feet) Also known as Corfu Lighthouse It emits two, white flashes every 6 seconds.

  4. Geography of the Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    Map of Homeric Greece based on the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad (right-click on map to enlarge). The locations mentioned in the narratives of Odysseus's adventures have long been debated. Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca and its neighbours).

  5. Geography of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The island narrows in the region close to Ierapetra, where it is only 12 km wide. Crete covers an area of 8,336 km 2 (3,219 sq mi), with a coastline of 1046 km. It is surrounded to the north by the Sea of Crete; to the south by the Libyan Sea; to the west by the Myrtoan Sea; and to the east by the Karpathion Sea. It lies about 160 km south of ...

  6. List of World Heritage Sites in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Crete: 2014 i, ii, iv, vi (cultural) Spinalonga is a rocky islet off the northeastern coast of Crete. During the Venetian period, a fortress was built to protect the natural port of Elounda. The islet was taken by the Ottomans in the 18th century and it served as a leper colony in the first half of the 20th century. [36] Ancient Towers of the ...

  7. Where are the fires in Corfu and Rhodes? Map reveals Greece ...

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    Greece faces seventh day of fires as temperatures surged to 46.6C in the south on Sunday

  8. History of Crete - Wikipedia

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    The Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos showing bull-leaping, c. 1450 BC; probably, the dark skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are women. The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia.

  9. Corfu - Wikipedia

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    Corfu is located near the Kefalonia geological fault formation; earthquakes have occurred. Corfu's coastline spans 217 km (135 mi) including capes; its highest point is Mount Pantokrator (906 m (2,972 ft)); and the second Stravoskiadi, at 849 m (2,785 ft). The full extent of capes and promontories take in Agia Aikaterini, Drastis to the north ...