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The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe.[1]
During the Iron Age, 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, an autonomous state, and the modern state of Greece.[2]
- ^ "DNA analysis unearths origins of Minoans, the first major European civilization". UW News. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
- ^ Chris Moorey, A History of Crete (Haus, 2019).