#Crete

Nicholas Danforth

NicholasDanfort

Turkey's maritime claims in the Eastern Mediterranean make sense the moment you realize that Crete doesn't count and Cyprus doesn't exist. Again, my position is that if fairness had anything

Salih Yasun

SalihYasun

An excellent documentary on Cretean Muslims to understand the politics of identity formation in the contemporary MENA. Syrians refer to their neighbors as Arab yet when they make an official

Kyle Glover

kyleg1461

#OTD 17:35 4th February 1944, Operation Whimsical, an attempt to insert a Special Operations Executive team into Crete. The mission: kidnap General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller "the butcher of Crete", commander of

Thabiti Anyabwile

ThabitiAnyabwil

Brothers and sisters, I want to make an ask of you.It's not for me. It's for the gospel. It's for churches. It's for often-neglected, overlooked and avoided communities of people

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

From Plato's "Protagoras" on the Spartans...“And in Lacedaemon and Crete not only men but also women have a pride in their high cultivation. And hereby you may know that I

Anatolian Papi 📿🇬🇷

DIAS

used to have a huge Christian minority and used to have a huge Muslim minority. After tensions reached an all time high, Muslims had to leave and Christians

Augustus McCrae

GusMcCrae14

Knossos Palace,centered on the island of Crete. The palace was three stories high and was the ultimate in luxury at the time. Most of the walls were of painted plaster,

Adesola sugar

AdesolaSugar

GREEK MYTHOLOGY: THE STORY OF ICARUS | THE BOY WHO FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN. Among all those mortals who grew so wise that they learned the secrets of

Dr. Chula Murray 💙

miss_chuls

A threadon NazisSome time at the end of May 1941, Gunner Colin Murray was captured by German Nazi forces on the island of Crete. He was 26 years old. And

Nikos Tsafos

ntsafos

The idea that the current tensions in the East Med are due to “decades-old” disputes isn’t entirely right. I am not sure people appreciate how much the Turkey-Libya delimitation created

Ben McCluskey

BenkersBen

Greece reports 302 new cases in the last 24 hours.An increase from yesterday, where 287 cases were reported.Ideally, we’d like to see cases level-off to mitigate UK quarantine

Alice Moran

Alice_Moran

My great grandfather John Moran died in WWII. When he left, my grandfather was 2-years-old, too young to have any memories of his dad. There are things he used to

Peter Sandham

HKSandham

When was the last time the Divine Liturgy was performed in #HagiaSophia ? 28th May 1453? Wrong. 19th January 1919. A thread on the Great Church's brief, little known 20th

Tina Heat

TinaHeat23

Oh, I am SO shocked by this latest stunt by @GovJanetMills. There can't be more accountability without more funding & more staffing, but this is a great way to duck

The Ancient World #BLM

TheAncientWorld

Great talk on "The Deep State in the Ancient World" by Louise Hitchcock at #asor2020 yesterday. First, reinterpreting Minoan "palaces" as "temples" & proposing Crete had a Sumer-style temple-based economy

SiSu WiTHiN 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇿

sisu_sanity

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