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Article: You can't Crete it.(News)
- Article from:
- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2005
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Byline: By Cathy Owen South Wales Echo
Crete's been a hotbed for marauders since the year dot. But islanders still welcome visitors, as CATHY OWEN discovered...
THE island of Crete has been proving a big hit with visitors for thousands of years.
In fact, marauding Saracens, Arabs, Byzantines and Ottomans and Venetians have squabbled over Crete since the second century AD.
Thankfully for the island's 500,000 or so inhabitants, the last lot of conquerors, Hitler's Nazis , were kicked out in 1944 and since then Crete has been a destination ...