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The History of Crete goes back to the 7th Millennium B.C., preceding the ancient Minoan civilization door meer than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe and the first, in Europe, to build a palace. After the Minoan civilization was devastated door the Thera eruption, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-influenced organization of city states, then successively became part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Venetian Republic, the Ottoman Empire, and the modern state of Greece.

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This is a lijst of islands of Greece. The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000[1] islands and islets that belong to Greece. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have meer than 100 inhabitants.

The largest Greek island door area is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea. The seconde largest island is Euboea, which is separated from the mainland door the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the central Greece periphery. After the third and fourth largest Greek Islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest...