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- Cretan)Aegean Sea, with the Sea of Crete (or North Cretan Sea) to the north and the Libyan Sea (or South Cretan Sea) to the south. Crete covers 260 km from west...107 KB (10,888 words) - 16:14, 31 March 2025
Nazi German resistance movement against the Allied occupation Greek Resistance List of Greek Resistance organizations Cretan resistance National Liberation...
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The Cretan lyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a pear-shaped three-stringed Greek Violin, a traditional musical instrument, central to the traditional music...
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Battle of Crete (section Civilian resistance)
the British Royal Navy and the remainder surrendered or joined the Cretan resistance. The defence of Crete evolved into a costly naval engagement; by the...
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Allied occupation of Germany, 1945 Greek resistance movement List of Greek Resistance organizations Cretan resistance National Liberation Front (EAM) and the...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor (category Cretan Resistance)
scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest...
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Cretan cuisine (Greek: Κρητική κουζίνα) is the traditional cuisine of the Greek island of Crete. The core of the Cretan cuisine consists of food derived...
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The Cretan Runner)
Special Operations Executive (SOE) operations on Crete, as part of the Cretan resistance. During the postwar years he was at first mistakenly imprisoned as...
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Arkadi Monastery (section Cretan Revolt of 1866)
wall. The monastery played an active role in the Cretan resistance to Ottoman rule during the Cretan revolt of 1866. 943 Greeks, mostly women and children...
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The German resistance to Nazism (German: Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus) included unarmed and armed opposition and disobedience to the Nazi regime...
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for the SPD-dominated Iron Front as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Nazism in 1932, it became an official symbol of the Party during...
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Jewish resistance under Nazi rule encompassed various forms of organized underground activities undertaken by Jews against German occupation regimes in...
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Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe (category Battles and operations involving the Greek Resistance)
the easternmost prefecture of Lasithi. It did not take long for the Cretan resistance to spring up. They assisted Allied soldiers stranded on the island...
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Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian...
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Manolis Paterakis (category Cretan Resistance)
(Greek: Εμμανουήλ (Μανώλης) Πατεράκης): 158 was a member of the Cretan resistance during World War II, who lived in the village of Koustogerako in the...
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Terpsichori Chryssoulaki-Vlachou (category Cretan Resistance)
in 1926 on the island of Crete, Greece, Terpsichori was one of the many Cretan women who responded eagerly and passionately to the national call by the...
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The French Resistance (French: La Résistance, [la ʁezistɑ̃s]) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy...
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- had entered. On another occasion he was captured during a truce by some Cretan auxiliaries of the Spartans, and was released only by the devotion of a
- scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest
- Robert Easton, bass, “The Midnight Review” (Glinka), "Song of Hybrias the Cretan” (Elliott). Johann Strauss and Symphony Orchestra, “The Gipsy Baron” (Strauss)