The History of Crete goes back to the 7th Millennium B.C., preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more 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 by 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.
Read more about History Of Crete: Prehistoric Crete, Minoan-Mycenaean Crete, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Arab Crete, Venetian Crete (1205–1669), Ottoman Crete (1669-1898)
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