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Crete’s years spent under the Turks (1669–1898) constituted a period of cultural and economic stagnation.
The London Independent noted that while the Turks "could assault the [Kurdish] PKK with US attack helicopters, for Turkish civilians 24 hours after the earthquake."
Highest were those of foreign extraction such as Turks, Arabs, Afghans, and Persians, known as ashraf (that is, “honorable”).
The Ottoman Turks pushed Venetian and other forces from Asia Minor, through the islands of the Aegean, until they had left the Greek mainland.
As you make your way to the present day site you’ll pass the evocative ruins of an earlier monastery (Káto Préveli) sacked by the Turks in 1821, and the fathers aided many allied prisoners to escape in WWII.