Crete, Crete is the 5th largest island in the Mediterranean, Rhodes is the 9th largest.
Greece.
CRETE is much larger than Rhodes. Crete is 8,303 sq. km. or 3,206 sq mi, while Rhodes is 1,402 sq. km. or 541 sq mi.
There are a number of islands just northeast of Crete, including Dragonada, Karpathos, Kos and Rhodes.
Rhodes
IT'S CRETE
Three Greek Islands are: -Crete(largest Greek island by area) -Paros -Rhodes
The Minoan homeland was the island of Crete but they were trading all over the eastern Mediterranean and had colonies on other islands nearby such as Thera, (Santorini), Rhodes and others.
Crete and Rhodes are the two largest islands in the Aegean Sea.
the civilization developed on the island of Crete
* Chios * Corfu * Corsica * Crete * Cyprus * Kefalonia * Lesbos * Malta * Majorca * Rhodes * Sardinia * Sicily
The largest Italian island is Sicily, south-west of the peninsula. As for Greece, its largest island Crete. It may help you to remember this to consider that a major war occurred in ancient Greek history between the Mycenaeans, inhabiting Greece, and the Minoans, the inhabitants of Crete