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Thanks! I was not aware that Crete had broken away from the Ottoman Empire prior to WWI. As I said, many of us are woefully unaware of history outside of Western Europe. It is always nice to learn...

Although I am an engineer by training, I love history. It seems today that few people are concerned with anything that has occurred more than a 50 years ago. Although baby boomers like me are fairly...

At one time Crete was part of the Ottoman Empire. That is how the stone mined in Crete became known as the Turkish Oilstone. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following WWI, Crete no longer was...