Byzantine Crete

Crete Κρήτη (Krḗtē)
Province of the Byzantine Empire
c. 297 – c. 824/827 961–1205
Diocese of Macedonia, c. 400
Capital	Gortyn (until 820s) Chandax (from 961)
History
• Crete separated     from Cyrenaica	c. 297
• Muslim conquest	c. 824 or 827
• Byzantine reconquest	960–961
• Genoese / Venetian     conquest	1205
Preceded by Succeeded by Creta et Cyrenaica Emirate of Crete Emirate of Crete Kingdom of Candia
Today part of	Greece

The island of Crete came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire in two periods: the first extends from the late antique period (3rd century) to the conquest of the island by Andalusian exiles in the late 820s, and the second from the island's reconquest in 961 to its capture by the competing forces of Genoa and Venice in 1205.