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The town has a sad legacy as it was at the airfield here that German paratroopers landed in 1941, signaling the start of the Battle for Crete.
Evans’ subsequent attempts to recreate areas of the palace have met with intense criticism from other scholars but Knossós is now Crete’s premier attraction and rightly so.
On this spot on the orders of Venizélos, the Greek flag was raised in defiance of talks taking place among the major European powers about the fate of Crete.
The Portuguese saw valuable economic opportunity in their new possession and ordered Malvasia grapes from Crete and sugar cane from Italy in an effort to seed the island’s first cash crops.
Santorini (Thira), the next major island north, was heavily influenced by Crete, and the settlements of Thira and Akrotiri thrived at this time.