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Cretan State

The Cretan State (Greek: Κρητική Πολιτεία, romanized: Kritiki Politeia; Ottoman Turkish: كرید دولتی, romanized: Girid Devleti) was established in 1898, following the intervention by the Great Powers (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia) on the island of Crete. In 1897, the Cretan Revolt led the Ottoman Empire to declare war on Greece, which led the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Russia to intervene on the grounds that the Ottoman Empire could no longer maintain control. It was the prelude to the island's final annexation to the Kingdom of Greece, which occurred de facto in 1908 and de jure in 1913 after the First Balkan War.

Cretan State
Κρητική Πολιτεία (Greek)
كرید دولتی (Ottoman Turkish)

Autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire

Heraklion

Greek (official), Ottoman Turkish (recognised)

Greek Orthodox (prevailing religion),
Sunni Islam (recognised),
Judaism

Cretan

 

Prince George

Alexandros Zaimis

 

Eleftherios Venizelos

Assembly

 

9 December 1898

23 March 1905

7 October 1908[1]

30 May 1913

1 December 1913

336,151

Cretan drachma

Greece

McTiernan, Mick, A Very Bad Place Indeed For a Soldier. The British involvement in the early stages of the European Intervention in Crete. 1897–1898, King's College, London, September 2014.

Enosis: The Union of Crete with Greece

η "σημαια" της κρητικης πολιτειας

http://rethemnosnews.gr/2014/02/%CE%B7-%CF%83%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE%CF%82-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85/

About drachma coin of Cretan State (Paris mint, France)

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