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The Cretan Revolt of 1897–1898 was a successful insurrection by the Greek Orthodox population of Crete against the rule of the Ottoman Empire after decades of rising tensions. The Greek insurrectionists received supplies and armed support first from the Kingdom of Greece ; then later from the Great Powers : the United Kingdom , [ 4 ] France ...
The Cretan revolt of 1866–1869 (Greek: Κρητική Επανάσταση του 1866) or Great Cretan Revolution (Μεγάλη Κρητική Επανάσταση) was a three-year uprising in Crete against Ottoman rule, the third and largest in a series of Cretan revolts between the end of the Greek War of Independence in 1830 and the establishment of the independent Cretan State in 1898.
The Cretan State (Greek: Κρητική Πολιτεία, romanized: Kritiki Politeia; Ottoman Turkish: كرید دولتی, romanized: Girid Devleti) was established in 1898, following the intervention by the Great Powers (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia) on the island of Crete.
Thus, in 1866 the great Cretan Revolt began. The uprising, which lasted for three years, involved volunteers from Greece and other European countries, where it was viewed with considerable sympathy, particularly after the Arkadi Holocaust. Despite early successes of the rebels, who quickly confined the Ottomans to the northern towns, the ...
Daskalogiannis Revolt (1770) Crete during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1828) Cretan Revolt (1841) Cretan Revolt (1858) Cretan Revolt (1866–1869) Cretan Revolt (1878) Cretan Revolt (1897–1898), which led to the creation of the Cretan State
"The Admirals of the Powers in Cretan Waters" (Sketch from Black and White, 10 April 1897).. As early as May 1896, the British battleship HMS Hood and a French gunboat had arrived in Cretan waters to protect their countries′ interests and citizens in the face of unrest on Crete, [4] and when major rioting broke out in Candia (now Heraklion) on 6 February 1897, men from the British warship on ...
The Cretan Revolt of 1841 was one of many revolutions of the local Greeks to free themselves from the Ottoman Empire. Cretan Revolt Part of the Aftermath of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841)
The Cretan revolt of 1878 was an insurrection of the Cretan people against the Ottoman occupation of the island. This insurrection is part of a larger movement for independence from the Ottoman Empire, which Crete was part of since the middle of the 17th century.