whole as well as to the city alone; the Ottoman name for the city was Kandiye. 5. Megalo Kastro (Μεγάλο Κάστρο): After the Byzantine reconquest of Crete...

Species, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Kazantzakis was born in the town of Kandiye (now Heraklion) in Crete, with origins from the village of Myrtia. Crete...

Emin Ali Bedir Khan (1851, in Kandiye (modern Heraklion, Greece), Crete – 1926, in Cairo) was a founding member of the Kurd Society for Cooperation and...

Sinop Bosporus Fleet Mesudiye, Osmaniye, Feth-i Bülend, Sürur, İzzeddin, Kandiye, Talia, Istanbul Constantinople Avnillah, Necm-i Şevket, Selimiye, Hüdâvendigâr...

Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi (1749, in Kandiye (Heraklion) – 29 October 1798, in Berlin) was a late-18th century Ottoman ambassador and author. He is best...

Sanjak of Kandiye (Seat of the Pasha) Sanjak of Resmo Sanjak of Hanya Sanjaks, circa 1876: Sanjak of Hanya Sanjak of Resmo Sanjak of Kandiye Sanjak of...

War ended with the Peace of Vasvár. 1669 Ottoman conquest of Heraklion (Kandiye). 1672-76 Polish–Ottoman War. Ottoman conquest of Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamaniçe)...

Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi: Gümülcine, Kandiye, Selanik, Tırhala, Atina, Mora, Navarin, Girit Adası, Hanya, Kandiye, Elbasan, Ohri, Tekirdağı. Istanbul,...

Dynasty, which ruled Tunisia until 1957. Salacıoğlu: (1750 Hanya – 1825 Kandiye): One of the most important 18th-century poets of Turkish folk literature...

Ηράκλειο (Greek)*, Iraklion (Finnish*, Polish*, Serbian*, Romanian*), Kandiye (Turkish)* 's-Hertogenbosch Bois-le-Duc (French)*, Bolduque (Spanish)*...

the first Turkish photographer by profession. He started his career in Kandiye, Crete, in 1895, where he acquired his original fame, went on to open photography...

the whole island of Crete. In Turkish times (1669–1898) it was called "Kandiye" by the Ottomans but from the locals "Megalo Kastro" (Great Castle) or...

Habsburgs in 1663, concluded the Cretan War with the conquest of Heraklion (Kandiye) in 1669, and annexed Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamaniçe) from the Polish–Lithuanian...

(Uyvar) Kingdom of Hungary Slovakia Siege of Érsekújvár 1669 Heraklion (Kandiye) Greece Siege of Candia 1672 Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamaniçe) Ukraine 1678...

occupation of the city from 1919 to 1922. Stergiadis was born in 1861, in Kandiye (Heraklion), Ottoman Crete, Ottoman Empire. He was appointed the High Commissioner...

his father, Sheikh Ahmed Efendi is known to have died, and he died in Kandiye in or some time after 1825, year which is recorded in a number of his late...

Dalmatian Slav; executed by Sultan. Koca Musa Pasha 1645 1647 Bosniak; died at Kandiye during Cretan War before he could receive his promotion to grand vizier...

administrator and man of letters of Turkish Cretan origin. He was born in 1844 in Kandiye, Crete, Ottoman Empire as the son of Helvacızade Salih Tosun Efendi. He...

İzmit Turkey Sea of Marmara . Trablusgarp Tripoli Libya Mediterranean Sea Kandiye Heraklion Greece Mediterranean Sea Hanya Chania Greece Mediterranean Sea...