Regional1941

Battle of Crete

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Greece

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Crete (1941), part of the World War II. Germany defeated United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Greece.

Belligerents5

Germany
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Greece

ON THE MAPThird Reich (1941)British Empire (1939)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Crete (1941). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-crete · Sources & methodology