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30 July 2014
The Cretan bowman
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Archer. Detail from Mantegna , St. Sebastian. Louvre. ca. 1475. From Cyriaco of Ancona, 5 July 1445, Cydonia, Crete. To ...
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29 October 2012
Cretan Defenses, 1502
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Crete, by Piri Re'is From July 1500 through August 1502, Bartolomeo Minio was Venetian captain of Crete, which meant that he had...
20 February 2009
The Alikianos Horror
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There is a stone hand on either side of a door in the Venetian town of Maroulas, south-east of Rethymon. The town has few inhabitants: mostl...
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