1866 – 1869 · Ottoman Empire vs Cretan Greek insurgents
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.
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