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The History of Crete goes back as far as the ancient Minoan civilization. After this civilisation was destroyed by natural catastrophes, Creta 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.
  1. Prehistoric Crete
  2. Minoan-Mycenaean Crete
  3. Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Crete
  4. Venetian and Ottoman Crete
  5. Modern Crete
  6. Cretan State
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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.

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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