Regional1866 – 1869 · 3 years
Cretan revolt of 1866-1869
Crete · Arkadi Monastery · Rethymno
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
A three-year uprising of Cretan Greeks against Ottoman rule, the largest of the 19th-century Cretan revolts. It is remembered above all for the Holocaust of Arkadi (November 1866), when besieged defenders detonated their gunpowder rather than surrender; the Ottomans regained control by 1869.
Belligerents2
- Ottoman Empire
- Cretan Greek insurgents
ON THE MAPOttoman Empire
Sources
- Wikipedia: Cretan revolt (1866-1869)
- Wikipedia: Arkadi Monastery
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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