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Cretan History

The history of Crete is rich and diverse, spanning several millennia and encompassing the rise and fall of various civilizations.

  1. Crete
  2. Prehistoric Crete
  3. Minoan-Mycenaean Crete
  4. Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Crete
  5. Venetian and Ottoman Crete
  6. Modern Crete
  7. Cretan State
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Creta Ceramics

The Cretan pottery makers were traveling, in well organized groups, around the island bringing together all required equipment and setting up hole new ceramics laboratories in the areas they visited. In this way they served the exact needs of remote areas while it had proved much easier to carry the pottery equipment than carry the bulky and heavy pots around the island with donkeys...

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Cretan Pottery

In Creta pottery, observing the materials, the forms and the technique of the manufacture (specifically of big jars) but also the way of ceramics baking that our ancient ancestors used, you feel that this unique pottery art has passed through centuries without radical changes and is continued even today.