To what country does crete belong to?

Answer 1

Greece. Crete is wonderful, large, mountainous, and has a violent history. People of Cretan origins consider themselves Cretans first and Greeks second. Greeks with their surname ending in "akis" are of Cretan stock.

Answer 2

Greece. However, I would like to note that "claims" is a bit of an understatement. Crete fought its own independence war from the Ottoman Empire and was independent from 1897 until 1908, when the Cretans themselves demanded that Greece annex them (very much in the way that the Texans demanded that the US annex their independent republic in 1836). The Greeks and Ottomans only agreed to this annexation in 1913.

Answer 3

Crete is an island of Greece. Administratively it is one of the thirteen "peripheries" (περιφέριες) of Greece.

Answer 4

Greece