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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Crete Celebrates Union with Greece On December 1st

On December 1st, 1913, the island of Crete was officially integrated into the Greek state, after Sultan Mehmet V had finally relinquished all sovereignty over the island exactly one month earlier. Crete’s liberation from Ottoman rule was the result of a violent struggle that lasted close to a century and cost a great deal of […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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