The Emirate of Crete (Arabic: إقريطش, romanized: Iqrīṭish or إقريطية, Iqrīṭiya; Greek: Κρήτη, romanized: Krētē) was an Islamic state that existed on the...

Badajoz Granada Emirate of Crete, Crete, modern Greece, 824 or 827/828 to 961 Emirate of Bari, city of Bari in southern Italy 847–871 Emirate of Malta, 870–1091...

conquered Crete and founded the Emirate of Crete moved the island's capital from Gortyna to a new castle they called rabḍ al-ḫandaq ("Castle of the Moat")...

convert to Islam who served the Emirate of Crete as a naval commander in the 870s. Photios appears briefly in the narrative of the 10th-century chronicler...

the Saracen stronghold of Chandax on the northern coast, which became the capital of the new Emirate of Crete. The fall of Crete to the Arabs posed a major...

was Iqrīṭiš (Arabic: اقريطش < (τῆς) Κρήτης), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-Ḫandaq (modern Heraklion;...

Byzantine Crete Crete and Cyrenaica, Roman province Emirate of Crete Ottoman Crete Venetian Crete Cretan State Crete, Illinois Crete-Monee High School Crete, Indiana...

ninth-century Andalusian pirate and founder of the Emirate of Crete Abu Hafs ibn Amr (died ca. 928/931), last Arab emir of Malatya Abu Hafs al-Urduni, Jordanian...

The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization...

The Emirate of Nekor or Salihid Emirate (Arabic: إمارة بني صالح, romanized: ʾImārat Banī Ṣāliḥ) was an Arab emirate centered in the Rif area of present-day...

others ended forming the Emirate of Crete in the 820s. Emir Abd al-Rahman I had used Berbers and the saqaliba for a permanent army of 40,000 to end the conflicts...

or in Cappadocia). After a failed Byzantine attempt to recover the Emirate of Crete in the previous year, the Abbasids launched a raid into Asia Minor...

territories in northern Syria and Armenia. The Emirate of Crete was reconquered in 961. By the end of the 10th century the Fatimid Caliphate had replaced...

The Uyunid Emirate (Arabic: الدَّوْلَةُ الْعُيُونِيَّة) was a historical Arab emirate centered in al-Hasa that ruled over most of eastern Arabia and Najd...

(died 305) Photios (Emirate of Crete) (fl. 870s), Byzantine renegade and admiral of the Emirate of Crete Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1431) Photius...

approximately 135 years of its existence, the emirate of Crete was one of the major foes of Byzantium. Crete commanded the sea lanes of the Eastern Mediterranean...

The Emirate of Granada, also known as the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, was an Islamic polity in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages...

The Emirate of Tbilisi (Georgian: თბილისის საამირო Tbilisis saamiro, Arabic: إمارة تفليسي Imārat Tiflisi) was a Muslim emirate in Transcaucasia. The Emirs...

established the Emirate of Crete, independent and flourishing from a commercial and cultural point of view, as well as powerful from a military point of view, until...

Revolts of the Arabs. Unsuccessful Byzantine attempt to reconquer the Emirate of Crete. 845: Death of the Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani Governor of Khorasan...

only many captives but also large quantities of weapons and supplies intended for the Emirate of Crete. The Byzantine attack, which was repeated in the...

their stronghold of Chandax on the northern coast, which became the capital of the new Emirate of Crete. The Muslim occupation of Crete had devastating...

island of Crete (Emirate of Crete) from the late 820s (c. 824 or 827/828) until the Byzantine reconquest in 961. Arabic was the official language of the...

Revolt took place in the suburb of Saqunda of the city of Córdoba, capital of the Emirate of Córdoba, in the spring of the year 818, coinciding with Ramadan...

Umayyad Emirate of Cordoba, the Muslims of al-Andalus (in the Iberian Peninsula) also sent a fleet under Asba' ibn Wakil to aid the Aghlabid conquest of Sicily...

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Byzantine army. After Arabs from Andalusia took over Crete in 824, it developed into the Arab Emirate of Crete and a base for corsairs that pillaged Byzantium's...

The music of Crete (Greek: Κρητική μουσική, Kritikí mousikí), also called kritika (κρητικά), refers to traditional forms of Greek folk music prevalent...

This is a list of rulers of the island of Crete throughout its history. Crete was conquered for the Roman Republic by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus...

was the second Emir of Crete, ruling c. 855 – c. 880. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary...