Data
Name: Cretan State
Type: Polity
Start: 1897 AD
End: 1913 AD
Statistics
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Cretan State
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Was an independent state that was created on the island of Crete with the Treaty of Constantinople (1897) that was added to Greece ten years later.
Establishment
Chronology
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1. Greco-Turkish War (1897)
Was a war between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1.1.Treaty of Constantinople (1897)
Was the treaty that ended the Greco-Turkish War (1897). Greece lost some territories in Thessaly but Crete became an autonomous states under nominal Ottoman sovereignty.
2. Balkan Wars
Were two wars fought in southeastern Europe in 1912-1913 during which the states of the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia) first conquered Macedonia and much of Thrace from the Ottomans and then clashed with each other over the division of the conquered lands.
Was a war fought by Bulgary against a coalition of Balkan states. During the First Balkan War the Balkan League had conquered most of the Ottoman Balkan territories. Bulgaria was dissatisfied by the territorial partition and invaded its former allies.
Was the treaty that ended the Second Balkan War.
