Talk:History of Crete

message: I have corrected some various typos, such as Venezelos becoming Venizelos, etc... --Xenophonos 21:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article could use a decent Wikipedia:Lead section to introduce and summarize the rest of the article.  The same paragraph could be used as an overview in the Crete article, as described in Wikipedia:Summary style.  Thanks!  — Catherine\talk 07:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section 

message: One result of the Ottoman conquest was that a sizeable proportion of the population converted to Islam. Contemporary estimates vary, but on the eve of the Greek War of Independence as much as 45% of the population[1] of the island may have been Muslim. It declined sharply during the 19th century and there are conflicting estimates of its numbers, but according to British consular reports which are probably the most independent guesses, at the end of the nineteenth century, the Cretan Muslims still numbered around 100,000.
Apparently this does _not_ exist in the source claimed below, so unless someone comes up with a source that can even prove its existence as minority view, I'll remove it this afternoon. Enough is enough. Miskin 06:30, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  19th century population figures 

message: Böri (talk) 10:45, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of Dorian Crete! 

message: The article appears to somehow defy history. Having had a father and uncles in the battle, let us say what it was. It was a total rout and a disaster for the New Zealand troops there anyway. I am probably too emotionally involved to participate, but let us acknowledge that this was a big win for the Germans. As for my family, they felt nothing but disgrace, as defeated soldiers always do.    Wallie (talk) 21:57, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a Pyrrhic Victory for the Germans, as they suffered a heavy loss of para-troopers and they never again attempted a major air-lift operation. Thus, it is unfair to say that N.Z. soldiers were lost in vain. --Euzen (talk) 12:28, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Moreover, the Maoris are still talked about today. After the Maoris ran out of ammo they charged the invaders. They are considered the bravest of the brave and ultimate warriors as they deserve to be.  Nipsonanomhmata  (Talk) 15:56, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So I added the official NZ history - see especially the history of the Maori battalion --Michael Goodyear (talk) 14:04, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Battle of Crete strong bias

message: In his book Leonard Cottrell gives plausible evidence that Minos was a Greek and therefore part of the Classical Greek invasion, post Thera eruption.
If correct this means that the Cretan civilisation before the Greek take over is mislabelled.AT Kunene (talk) 09:35, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minos 

message: Muddled - items out of order. Why does it end at the German occupation? --Michael Goodyear (talk) 14:06, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Added short section on liberation --Michael Goodyear (talk) 14:31, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  General layout 

message: The date stated for the arrival of Prince George, 9th December 1898, is given in the Julian calendar rather than the then more commonly used Gregorian. In 1898, the Julian was still used by Greece and Russia, but according to  most of the European Powers who put George in place, he arrived on 21st December 1898.Mickmct (talk) 18:14, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arrival of Prince George 1898 

message: Substituted at 17:59, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The article claims that Knossos is aceramic, but most references talk of ceramic production and trade at Knossos.  http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15074/
Every site is aceramic until it becomes ceramic, and I think the original author may have misinterpreted the aceramic period of Knosses to mean Knossos was aceramic, which it clearly wasn't.
I am suggesting the change should it be supported.
Historyoftheworldpodcast (talk) 23:01, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aceramic Knossos? 

message: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/minoan_01.shtml DavidLJ (talk) 09:08, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic disaster Remembered World-Wide in Myth