Is crete an island off the coast of Greece?

Answer 1

Yes. The island of Crete is the biggest island in Greece and it has a long and honorable tradition.

Crete was the centre of Europe's most ancient civilization, the Minoan. Tablets inscribed in Linear A have been found in numerous sites in Crete, and a few in the Aegean islands. The Minoans established themselves in many islands besides Crete: secure identifications of Minoan off-island sites include Kea, Kythera, Milos, Rhodes and above all, Thera (Santorini). Archaeologists ever since Sir Arthur Evans have identified and uncovered the palace-complex at Knossos, the most famous Minoan site. Other palace sites in Crete such as Phaistos have uncovered magnificent stone-built, multi-story palaces containing drainage systems, and the queen had a bath and a flushing toilet. The expertise displayed in the hydraulic engineering was of a very high level. There were no defensive walls to the complexes. By the 16th century BC pottery and other remains on the Greek mainland show that the Minoans had far-reaching contacts on the mainland. In the 16th century a major earthquake caused destruction on Crete and on Thera that was swiftly repaired. By about the 15th century BC a massive volcanic explosion known as the Minoan eruption blew the island of Thera apart, casting more than four times the amount of ejecta as the explosion of Krakatoa and generating a tsunami in the enclosed Aegean that threw pumice up to 250 meters above sea level onto the slopes of Anaphi, 27 km to the east. Any fleet along the north shore of Crete was destroyed and John Chadwick suggests that the majority of Cretan fleets had kept the island secure from the Greek-speaking mainlanders. The sites, save Knossos, were destroyed by fires.Mycenaeans from the mainland took over Knossos, rebuilding some parts to suit them. They were in turn subsumed by a subsequent Dorian migration.

Answer 2

Most of Greece is on the large, mountainous Balkan peninsula and the Peloponnesian peninsula across the Isthmus of Corinth. There is also the Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea that contains hundreds of islands, many inhabited.

Answer 3

Yes. However, Crete is not part of mainland Greece. Crete is the largest Greek Island and sits to the southeast of mainland Greece and southwest of Anatolia (Asian Turkey).

Answer 4

The island of Crete, or Kriti, is an island of Greece, meaning that Crete is part of Greece.

Answer 5

Yes, it is located in the Mediterranean Sea near Greece.

Answer 6

Crete is an island, the largest in Greece and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean

Answer 7

Nope, on the south.

Answer 8

yes it is off the coast

Answer 9

Crete is Greece's largest island.