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Heraklion or Iraklion (Irákleio, ; ), is the largest city and capital
Capital City

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 of Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a transliteration of the ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 and Katharevousa
Katharevousa

Katharevousa , is a form of the Greek language conceived in the early 19th century by Greeks intellectual and revolutionary leader Adamantios Korais ....
 name, , or Iraklio, among other variants. For centuries it was known as Candia, a Venetian adaptation of the earlier Greek name ???da? or ???da?a?, which in turn came from the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 .






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Heraklion or Iraklion (Irákleio, ; ), is the largest city and capital
Capital City

Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman....
 of Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a transliteration of the ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 and Katharevousa
Katharevousa

Katharevousa , is a form of the Greek language conceived in the early 19th century by Greeks intellectual and revolutionary leader Adamantios Korais ....
 name, , or Iraklio, among other variants. For centuries it was known as Candia, a Venetian adaptation of the earlier Greek name ???da? or ???da?a?, which in turn came from the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 . Under the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
, it was called Kandiye. In the local vernacular, it is often called ??st?? (Kástro, "castle") and its inhabitants ?ast????? (Kastrinoí, "castle dwellers").

Heraklion is the capital of Heraklion Prefecture
Heraklion Prefecture

Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
, with an international airport named after the writer Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was arguably the most important and most translated Greece writer and philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he did not become well known globally until the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek , based on Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek whose English translation has the same title....
. The ruins of Knossos
Knossos

Knossos , also known as the Knossos Palace is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture....
, which were excavated and restored by Arthur Evans
Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greece island of Crete at Kephala Hill and for creating the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts there and elsewhere in Crete and the eastern Mediterranean....
, are nearby.

History

Heraklion is close to the ruins of the palace of Knossos
Knossos

Knossos , also known as the Knossos Palace is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture....
, which in Minoan
Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 27th century BC to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greece culture became dominant at Minoan sites in Crete....
 times was the largest centre of population on Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
. This Bronze Age
Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
 palace and human settlement has yielded significant archaeological finds that have given insights to the Minoan civilisation. It is likely that there was a port at Heraklion as long ago as 2000 BC, although no archaeological recovery has been made of the port itself.

Founding

The present city of Heraklion was founded in 824
824

Events...
 AD by the Saracen
Saracen

Saracen was a term used by Europeans in the Middle Ages for Fatimids at first, then later for all who professed the religion of Islam....
s who had been expelled from Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....
 by Emir Al-Hakam I
Al-Hakam I

Al-Hakam Ibn Hisham Ibn Abd-ar-Rahman I was Umayyad Emir of Cordoba from 796 until 822 in the Al-Andalus .During his reign he crushed a rebellion led by clerics in a suburb called al-Ribad on the south bank of the Guadalquivir river....
 and had taken over the island from the Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
. They built a moat
Moat

A moat is deep, broad trench, usually filled with water, that surrounds a structure, installation, or town, normally to provide it with a preliminary line of Defense ....
 around the city for protection, and named the city ??? ?????? 'Castle of the Moat'. The Saracens allowed the port to be used as a safe haven for pirates who operated against Byzantine shipping and raided Byzantine territory around the Aegaean.

Byzantine Era

In 961
961

Events...
, the Byzantines, under the command of Nikephoros Phokas
Nikephoros II

Nikephoros II Phokas, Latinization Nicephorus II Phocas , was a Byzantine Emperor of Armenian descent whose brilliant military exploits contributed to the resurgence of Byzantine Empire in the tenth century....
, later to become Byzantine Emperor, landed in Crete and attacked the city. After a prolonged siege
Siege

A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by Battle of attrition and/or assault. The term derives from sedere, Latin for "to sit." A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that cannot be easily taken by a coup de main and refuses to surrender ....
, the city fell. The Saracen inhabitants were slaughtered, the city looted and burned to the ground. Soon rebuilt, the town of Chandax remained under Byzantine control for the next 243 years.

Venetian Era


In 1204, the city was bought by the Republic of Venice
Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
 as part of a complicated political deal which involved among other things, the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade
Fourth Crusade

The Fourth Crusade was originally designed to conquer Islam Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and conquered the Christianity city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire....
 restoring the deposed Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelus to his throne. The Venetians improved on the ditch by building enormous fortifications, most of which are still in place, including a giant wall, in places up to 40 m thick, with 7 bastions, and a fortress in the harbour. Chandax was renamed to Candia in Italian and became the seat of the Duke of Candia. As a result, the Venetian administrative district of Crete became known as "Regno di Candia" (Kingdom of Candia). The city retained the name of Candia for centuries and the same name was often used to refer to the whole island
List of islands of Greece

The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000 islands and islets that belong to Greece. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 inhabitants....
 of Crete as well. To secure their rule, Venetians began in 1212 to resettle families from Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 on Crete. The coexistence of two different cultures and the influence of Italian Renaissance
Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe....
 lead to a flourishing of letters and the arts in Candia and Crete in general, that is today known as the Cretan Renaissance.

Ottoman Era

After the Venetians came the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
. During the Cretan War (1645–1669)
Cretan War (1645–1669)

The Cretan War or War of Candia , as the Sixth Ottoman?Venetian Wars is better known, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her allies against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States, fought over the island of Crete, Venice's largest and richest Stato da M?r....
, the Ottomans besieged the city
Siege of Candia

The Siege of Candia was a military conflict in which Ottoman Empire forces besieged the Republic of Venice-ruled city and were ultimately victorious....
 for 22 years, from 1648 to 1669, the longest siege in history. In its final phase, which lasted for 22 months, 70,000 Turks, 38,000 Cretans and slaves and 29,088 of the city's Christian defenders perished. Under the Ottomans, the city was known officially as Kandiye (again also applied to the whole island of Crete) but informally in Greek as Megalo Kastro ("Big Castle"). During the Ottoman period, the harbour silted up, so most shipping shifted to Hania in the north of the island.

Modern Era

In 1898 the autonomous Cretan State
Cretan State

The Cretan State was established in 1898, following the intervention by the Great Powers on the island of Crete. In 1897 an insurrection in Crete led the Ottoman Empire to declare Greco-Turkish War on Kingdom of Greece, which led the United Kingdom, French Third Republic, Kingdom of Italy and Russian Empire to intervene on the grounds that...
 was created, under Ottoman suzerainty
Suzerainty

Suzerainty is a situation in which a region or nation is a tributary state to a more powerful entity which allows the tributary some limited domestic Wiktionary:autonomy to control its foreign affairs....
, with Prince George of Greece as its High Commissioner and under international supervision. During the period of direct occupation of the island by the Great Powers (1898-1908), Candia was part of the British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 zone. At this time the city was renamed "Heraklion", after the Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 port of Heracleum ("Heracles
Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
' city"), whose exact location is unknown.

With the rest of Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
, Heraklion was incorporated into the Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Greece

The Kingdom of Greece was a state established in 1832 in the London Conference of 1832 by the Great Powers . It was internationally recognized in the Treaty of Constantinople , where it also secured full independence from the Ottoman Empire....
 in 1913. The biggest monument of the city is the Venetian medieval fortress Rocca al Mare (also known as Koules, Turkish for "tower") located at the port.

Transportation


Port

Heraklion is an important shipping port and ferry dock. The public can take ferries and boats from Heraklion to a multitude of destinations including Santorini
Santorini

Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcano islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast from Greece's mainland....
, Ios_Island, Paros
Paros

Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos , from which it is separated by a channel about wide....
, Mykonos
Mykonos

Mykonos is a Greek island and a mass tourist destination, renowned for its cosmopolitan character and its intense nightlife. The island is part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Siros, Paros and Naxos, Greece....
, Rhodes
Rhodes

Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
, and mainland Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
.

Airport

Morozini Fountain Heraklion
Heraklion International Airport, or Nikos Kazantzakis Airport is located about 5km east of the city. The airport is named after Herkalion native Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was arguably the most important and most translated Greece writer and philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he did not become well known globally until the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek , based on Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek whose English translation has the same title....
, a Greek writer and philosopher. It is the second busiest airport of Greece, mostly due to the fact that Crete is a major destination for tourists during summer. There are regular domestic flights to and from Athens, Thessaloniki and Rhodes with Aegean Airlines
Aegean Airlines

Aegean Airlines S.A. is the second largest Greek airline based in Athens. It operates scheduled services from Athens and Thessaloniki to other major Greek destinations as well as to a number of European destinations....
 and Olympic Airlines
Olympic Airlines

Olympic Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Greece, based in Athens. It operates services to 35 domestic destinations and to 39 destinations world-wide....
. Cyprus Airways
Cyprus Airways

Cyprus Airways Public Ltd is the flag carrier airline of Cyprus, based in Nicosia. It operates scheduled services to over 30 destinations in Europe, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf....
 and Aegean Airlines
Aegean Airlines

Aegean Airlines S.A. is the second largest Greek airline based in Athens. It operates scheduled services from Athens and Thessaloniki to other major Greek destinations as well as to a number of European destinations....
 fly to Larnaca. Furthermore, Sky Express
Sky Express (Greece)

Sky Express is a regional airline based in Heraklion, Greece, primarily focusedon scheduled flights between Crete and several smaller Aegean islands, avoiding transiting through...
 operates direct flights to Aegean islands such as Rhodes, Santorini, Samos, Kos, Mytilini and Ikaria. During the summer period, traffic is intense and the flight destinations are from all over Europe (mostly Germany, UK, Italy and Russia). The airfield is shared with the 126 Combat Group of the Hellenic Air Force
Hellenic Air Force

The Hellenic Air Force is the air force of Greece. The mission of the Hellenic Air Force is to guard and protect Greek airspace, provide air assistance and support to the Hellenic Army and the Hellenic Navy, as well as the provision of humanitarian aid in Greece and around the world....
. The take off in western direction leads directly over the town of Heraklion, which makes it a very noisy city.

Highway Network

European route E75
European route E75

The E 75 is part of the International E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe.The E 75 starts from Vard?, Norway in the Barents Sea and runs south through Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to Sitia, Greece on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea....
 runs through the city and connects Heraklion with the three other major cities of Crete: Agios Nikolaos
Agios Nikolaos, Crete

Agios Nikolaos is a coastal town on the Greece island of Crete, lying east of the island's capital Heraklion, north of the town of Ierapetra and west of the town of Sitia....
,Chania
Chania

Chani? is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania Prefecture. It lies along the north coast of the island, about 70 km west of Rethymno and 145 km west of Heraklion....
, and Rethymno
Rethymno

Rethymno , a city of approximately 40,000 people, is the capital of Rethymno Prefecture in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan center....
.

Public transit

There are a number of buses serving the city and connecting it to many major destinations in Crete.

Climate

Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
 has a warm Mediterranean climate. Summers in the lowlands, are hot and dry with clear skies. Dry hot days are often relieved by a system of seasonal breezes. The mountain areas are much cooler, with considerable rain. Winters are mild in the lowlands with rare frost and snow. Although Heraklion is further south than Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, it has a milder climate.

Colleges and Universities

  • University of Crete
    University of Crete

    'The University of Crete' is the principal higher education institution on the island of Crete, Greece.The University of Crete, is a multi-disciplinary, research- oriented institution, located in the cities of Rethymnon and Heraklion....
  • TEI of Crete
    TEI of Crete

    The Technological Educational Institute of Crete , was founded in 1983 in order to provide Higher Technical Education to the students of Greece....
  • Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas
    Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas

    The Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas is aresearch center in Greece, supervised by the through its. It consists of seven research...


Culture


Museums

  • Heraklion Archaeological Museum
  • Historical Museum of Crete
    Historical Museum of Crete

    File:Triptico de Modena El Greco.jpgThe Historical Museum of Crete is a museum in Chania, Crete , Greece.It includes a number of notable works of art, such as the Modena Triptych, a 1568 painting by the artist El Greco, who was also known as Dom?nikos Theotok?poulos....
  • The Battle of Crete and National Resistance Museum
  • Museum of The Saint Catherine's Monastery of Sinai
    Museum of The Saint Catherine's Monastery of Sinai

    Museum of The Saint Catherine's Monastery of Sinai is a museum in Heraklion, Crete, Greece....
  • Museum of Visual Arts
    Museum of Visual Arts

    Museum of Visual Arts is a museum located on Nymphon Street in Heraklion, Crete, Greece....


Sports

The city hosts three football clubs
List of football clubs in Greece

The list of 2008-09 Greek association football league clubs follows....
:
  • OFI Crete
    OFI Crete

    OFI Crete, or more commonly OFI , is a Greece association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete.OFI is the team with the most appearances in the Super League Greece among them which are based outside of the two major cities of Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki....
     in Heraklion, plays in the first division.
  • Ergotelis FC
    Ergotelis FC

    Ergotelis FC is a Greece football club based in Heraklion, the largest city of the Greek Island of Crete.Ergotelis was established on the 7th of July 1929 by Greek refugees from Asia Minor who had moved to Heraklion after the Asia Minor Disaster....
     - in Heraklion, plays in the first division.
Both OFI and Ergotelis FC use the Pankritiko Stadium
Pankritiko Stadium

Pankritio Stadium is a soccer stadium located in Heraklio on the island of Crete. The stadium was completed on December 31, 2003, and officially opened on August 11, 2004, just before the beginning of the 2004 Summer Olympics, centered in Athens, Greece, for which the stadium was host to Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics matches....
, which was built for the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries....
.
  • Atsalenios - Football Club of Heraklion which plays in the third division.


Famous natives

Heraklion has been the home town of some of Greece's most significant spirits, including the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was arguably the most important and most translated Greece writer and philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he did not become well known globally until the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek , based on Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek whose English translation has the same title....
, the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis is a Greece poetry regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature....
 and the world-famous Greek painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco
El Greco

El Greco was a painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek alphabet, ????????? Te?t???p????? ....
).

Literature
  • Vitsentzos Kornaros
    Vitsentzos Kornaros

    Vitsentzos or Vikentios Kornaros or Vincenzo Cornaro was a Crete Greeks poet of the Greek Renaissance who wrote the romantic epic poem Erotokritos....
     (1553-1613) author
  • Nikos Kazantzakis
    Nikos Kazantzakis

    Nikos Kazantzakis was arguably the most important and most translated Greece writer and philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he did not become well known globally until the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek , based on Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek whose English translation has the same title....
     (1883-1957) author
  • Elli Alexiou (1894-1988) author
  • Odysseas Elytis
    Odysseas Elytis

    Odysseas Elytis is a Greece poetry regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature....
     (1911-1996) Nobel awarded poet
  • Lili Zografou (1922-1998) author
  • Rea Galanaki
    Rea Galanaki

    Rea Galanaki was born in Heraklion of Crete on 1947. She studied history and archaeology in the University of Athens. She has been honored with the Novel Prize of the Greek state in 1999....
     (1947-present) author


Scientists and Scholars
  • Peter Phillarges (ca. 1339-1410) (also Pietro Di Candia, later Pope Alexander V)
  • Francesco Barozzi
    Francesco Barozzi

    Francesco Barozzi was an Italy mathematics, astronomy and humanist....
     (1537-1604) mathematician and astronomer
  • Maximos (Emmanuel) Margounios (1549–1602) scholar, theologian, poet and writer, titular bishop
    Titular bishop

    A titular bishop is a Bishop of the Catholic Church who is not in charge of a diocese . Examples of bishops belonging to this category are coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, bishops emeritus, vicar apostolic, nuncios, superiors of departments in the Roman Curia, and Cardinal Bishops of suburbicarian dioceses ....
     of Kythira
    Kythira

    Kythira is an island of Greece, historically part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the eastern tip of the Peloponnesos peninsula. It is administratively part of the Piraeus Prefecture although geographically distant from the prefecture's population center....
  • Nikolaos Panagiotakis (1935-1997) byzantinologist
  • Fotis Kafatos
    Fotis Kafatos

    Fotis C. Kafatos is a prominent Greek biologist.Kafatos received his Bachelor's degree at Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University ....
     biologist, President of the European Research Council
  • Joseph Sifakis
    Joseph Sifakis

    Joseph Sifakis is a Greek people computer scientist, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking....
     (1946-present) computer scientist, co-recipient of the 2007 Turing Award
    Turing Award

    The A. M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community....


Painting
  • Andreas Ritzos (1422-1492) painter of icons
  • Theophanes
    Theophanes the Cretan

    Theophanis Strelitzas , also known as Theophanes the Cretan or "of Crete" or "Theophanes Bathas", was a leading icon painter of the Cretan School in the first half of the sixteenth century, and in particular the most important figure in Greek wall-painting of the period....
     (ca.1500-1559) painter of icons
  • Michael Damaskenos (1530/35-1592/93) painter of icons
  • Georgios Klontzas (1540-1607) painter of icons
  • El Greco
    El Greco

    El Greco was a painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek alphabet, ????????? Te?t???p????? ....
     (1541-1614) mannerist painter, sculpturer and architect
  • Emmanuel Tzanes
    Emmanuel Tzanes

    Emmanuel Tzanes was a Greeks Renaissance painter.He was born in Crete and migrated to Venice where he did most of his work. He was one of the most respected Greek painters of his day....
     (1610-1690) painter of icons
  • Theodoros Poulakis (1622-1692) painter of icons
  • Konstantinos Volanakis
    Konstantinos Volanakis

    Konstantinos Volanakis or Volonakis was a Greece Painting, considered one of the best of the 19th century. Born to a wealthy family, he went to Trieste, Italy, in 1856 where he took up painting....
     (1837-1907) painter
  • Aristidis Vlassis (*1955) painter


Film industry
  • Sapfo Notara
    Sapfo Notara

    Sapfo Notara, , was a legendary Greeks actor, known for supporting capabilities in acting. She didn't want to be persecuted by the vainglory of the emotions that belong to stardom , so most of her movie roles were not as a protagonist....
     (1907-1985) actress
  • Rika Diallina
    Rika Diallina

    Rika Diallina also spelled Dialina and Dialyna, born in Heraklion, Crete in 1934, won the Miss Star Hellas title, and went on to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 1954 pageant in Long Beach, California....
     (1934) actress and model, Miss Hellas
  • Yannis Smaragdis
    Yannis Smaragdis

    Yannis Smaragdis is a Greece film director.He was born in Crete in 1946 and studied film in Greece and Paris, France. He appeared in 1972 with his short film Two Three Things... which received the first prize in the Athens Festival as well as a Special Mention in the Montreal Film Festival....
     (1946) film director


Music
  • Fragiskos Leontaritis (Francesco Londarit) (1518-1572) composer
  • Rena Kyriakou
    Rena Kyriakou

    Rena Kyriakou was a pianist and composer born in Herakleion, Greece....
     (1918-1994) pianist
  • Giannis Markopoulos
    Giannis Markopoulos

    Giannis Markopoulos is a Crete-Greeks composer....
     (1939) composer
  • Christos Leontis (1940) composer
  • Manolis Rasoulis (1945) lyrics writer
  • Notis Sfakianakis
    Notis Sfakianakis

    Notis Sfakianakis is a successful Greek singer, mainly active in the "Laiko" Greek music genre. ...
     (1959) singer


Sports
  • Nikos Machlas
    Nikos Machlas

    Nikolaos Machlas is a Greece retired football . He finished his career as a striker for Greek Cypriots team APOEL F.C..He began his career with OFI Crete, where he made his debut in February 1991 against Panionios NFC....
     (1973) footballer
  • Georgios Samaras
    Georgios Samaras

    Georgios Samaras born 21 February 1985 in Heraklion) is a Greece Association football who currently plays as a striker for Celtic F.C.....
     (1985) footballer


Business
  • Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
    Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

    Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki is a Greece politician and business woman. She is best known for being the president of the bidding and organizing committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
     (1955) business woman and politician


Politics
  • Georgios Voulgarakis
    Georgios Voulgarakis

    Georgios Voulgarakis is a Greece politician and the former Minister for Mercantile Marine and Island Policy .Voulgarakis is fluent in English and holds a PhD in economics from the University of Athens....
     (1959) politician


Law
  • Romilos Kedikoglou
    Romilos Kedikoglou

    Romilos Kedikoglou is the current President of the Court of Cassation of Greece. He was born in 1940 in Heraklion-Crete. He is married and father of one child....
     (1940) President of the Court of Cassation of Greece


Clergy
  • Kyrillos Loukaris
    Cyril Lucaris

    Kyrillos Loukaris or Cyril Lucaris or Cyril Lucar was a Greece prelate and theology, and a native of Candia, Crete . He later became the Greek Patriarch of Alexandria as Cyril III and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as Cyril I....
     (1572–1637) theologian, Patriarch of Alexandria as Cyril III and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as Cyril I
  • Theodore II
    Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria

    Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and all Africa is the current List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria. He is formally styled His Divine Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of the Great City of Alexandria, Libya, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, All Egypt and All Africa, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Prelate of Prelates,...
     (1954) Patriarch of Alexandria


Fashion
  • Maria Spiridaki
    Maria Spiridaki

    Maria Spiridaki , born and raised on the island of Crete, is a Greece fashion model, actress and television presenter. In 2004 she won the title Miss Hellas at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and went on to represent Greece at the Miss World pageant held in Sanya, China in December 2004....
     (1984) fashion model and television presenter


Sister cities

  • Constanta
    Constanta

    Constanta is the oldest living city in Romania, founded around 600 BC. The city is located on the Black Sea coast. Constan?a is part of the group of four equal size cities which ranks after Bucharest, Romania's capital, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca and Ia?i....
    , Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....


See also

  • Centre for Technological Research of Crete
    Centre for Technological Research of Crete

    =CTR-Crete=The Center for Technological Research of Crete in Heraklion was founded according to the presidential decree No. 143/F.?.?. 123/20-6-2001 and is under the supervision and financing of the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs....
  • European Network and Information Security Agency
  • Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas
    Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas

    The Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas is aresearch center in Greece, supervised by the through its. It consists of seven research...
  • Handakos Street
    Handakos Street

    Handakos Street is a pedestrianised street in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It has been a busy thoroughfare since antiquity. The street, which goes down to the sea, specialises in niche shops and caf?s....
  • Minoan civilization
    Minoan civilization

    The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 27th century BC to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greece culture became dominant at Minoan sites in Crete....
  • Siege of Candia
    Siege of Candia

    The Siege of Candia was a military conflict in which Ottoman Empire forces besieged the Republic of Venice-ruled city and were ultimately victorious....
     (1648 - 1669)
  • TEI of Crete
    TEI of Crete

    The Technological Educational Institute of Crete , was founded in 1983 in order to provide Higher Technical Education to the students of Greece....
  • University of Crete
    University of Crete

    'The University of Crete' is the principal higher education institution on the island of Crete, Greece.The University of Crete, is a multi-disciplinary, research- oriented institution, located in the cities of Rethymnon and Heraklion....


External links

  • Information about the city of Heraklion by the Technological Educational Institute of Crete
    TEI of Crete

    The Technological Educational Institute of Crete , was founded in 1983 in order to provide Higher Technical Education to the students of Greece....
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