Crete
Humans have inhabited the island since at least 130,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic age. Crete was the centre of Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. The Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece. Crete was later ruled by Rome, then successively by the Byzantine Empire, Andalusian Arabs, the Venetian Republic, and the Ottoman Empire. In 1898 Crete, whose people had for some time wanted to join the Greek state, achieved independence from the Ottomans, formally becoming the Cretan State. Crete became part of Greece in December 1913.
+130.000^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
130,000
NUMBER
Q40203
Paleolithic
TIME
Q34374
Crete
LOC
Q46
Europe
LOC
Q134178
Minoans
Concept
2700-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2700
DATE
1420-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1420
DATE
Q181264
Mycenaean civilization
Concept
Q34374
Crete
LOC
Q12544
Byzantine Empire
LOC
Q123559
Andalusian
LOC
Q35323
Arabs
Concept
Q4948
Venetian Republic
LOC
Q12560
Ottoman Empire
LOC
1898-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1898
DATE
Q34374
Crete
LOC
Q72785
Cretan State
LOC
Q34374
Crete
LOC
1913-12-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
December 1913
DATE
Q134178
Minoans
Concept
Q34374
Crete
LOC
Q72785
Cretan State
LOC
1898-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1898
DATE