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      Archaeological approaches to the Islamic Emirate of Crete (820s-961 CE): a starting point

      Journal of Greek Archaeology
      Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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          Located at the crossroads between the Western and Eastern Mediterranean, and a gateway to the Aegean and the Greek world, in its millennia of history the island of Crete has been a cultural bridge between Europe, Africa, and Asia. Birthplace of the Minoan civilisation, Homeric land of ‘one hundred cities’, capital of the Roman province of Cyrenaica, and a core region of the Byzantine Empire from the 5th to the early 9th centuries, between the 820s and 961 Crete became an integral component of the Mediterranean Islamic world, and a key ideological and military frontier (taghr) in the Aegean confrontation between Byzantium and the dar al-Islam.

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                Journal
                Journal of Greek Archaeology
                JGA
                Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
                2059-4682
                2059-4674
                September 13 2019
                January 01 2019
                : 4
                Article
                10.32028/jga.v4i.485
                97d4d4f3-4963-4a0b-aa0e-2c79c04de373
                © 2019
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