Cretans

Daedala: The Ancient City Founded by Greeks from Crete in Pakistan

Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in south Asia. Located in a strategically and geopolitically important region, in the modern nation-state of Pakistan on the border...

People Across Mainland Greece, Crete, and Anatolia Shared Similar Diets for 7,600 Years

People from mainland Greece, Crete and Anatolia appear to have followed remarkably similar diets for thousands of years, despite living across the geographically diverse eastern Mediterranean, according to a new study. The research, led by Benjamin Irvine of the Department...

The Cretan Rebels the Greek Civil War Forgot

Twenty-six years after the end of the Greek Civil War, two Cretan rebels reappeared from the mountains on February 23, 1975. This is the extraordinary story of Giorgos Tzombanakis and Spyros Blazakis, two men who finally descended from the White...

TUC's Research on Greek Crisis

Most Cretans consider today’s fiscal policy as an obstacle to the development of enterprises, according to a Pan-Cretan Poll on development, while they express their concern about the services provided by universities. At the same time, Cretans say that...