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As today, 120 years ago, on November 3, 1898, he left by boat from the port of Souda and the last Turkish soldier left on the island. The liberation of the Ottoman yoke was now a fact, justifying the national struggle of the Cretans for centuries.
The Turkish occupation lasted from August 20, 1645 in Chania for 253 years.. He also spent 229 years in Heraklion and 171 years in Spinalonga and Souda.
Before 1898, developments were rapid for the Cretan question and after the successive uprisings of the Cretans, which were intensified by the 1821 Revolution (in which they also participated) and the creation of the new Greek state.
In 1878, with the Halepa Convention (with Eleftherios Venizelos taking part in the Cretan delegation's team), after a new rebellion, the Sultan promised that Crete would only be controlled by the Cretans, with the foundation of the Cretan gendarmerie, in which only Christians could become officers.
In 1889, the Sultan has abolished this article of the Convention, which stipulated that Crete would be supervised only by Cretans and entrusted to Colonel Taxin to maintain order in Crete, thus placing the head of the body of 200 men recruited in Macedonia.
In 1896, while the riots were continuing, the sultan, under the pressure of foreign forces, accepted the creation and sent to the body the island of 100 blacksmiths, with the British commander Major Bor. The campaign was controlled by the rebel Cretans while the Turks. The major powers (Great Britain, France, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Italy and Germany) sent fleets to the island to control / help alleviate the situation.
In August 1898, the Turks perpetrated wild mbadacres of Christians in Heraklion, which led foreign admirals to the decision to dismiss the Turks.. The Turkish gendarmerie was completely withdrawn from the Turkish army on November 3, 1898, while the admirals took charge of the administration of the Grand.
Developments that followed after December 1898, with the arrival of Prince George in Greece (appointed Commissioner of Crete for a three-year term) and the administration of Crete by the commanders of international troops (English, Russian, French and Italian), finally drove to the incorporation of Crete into the Greek state on December 1, 1913, with the official proclamation of the Union in Chania, in the presence of King Constantine and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos,
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