Emirate of Crete

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Was an Islamic state that existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire in 961.

Establishment

January 829: A group of Andalusian exiles conquered Crete in the year 824 or in the years 827/828, managing to create an independent state in a short time.

Chronology

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1. Arab-Byzantine Wars

Were a series of wars between a number of Muslim Arab dynasties and the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 11th century. Conflict started during the initial Muslim conquests, under the expansionist Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs, in the 7th century and continued by their successors until the mid-11th century.

January 905: Savage sack of Thessalonika in 904 by the Saracens of Crete.

February 905: End of the sack of Thessalonika by the Saracens.