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AZ FLAG Cretan State 1897-1913 Flag 2' x 3' for a pole - Crete flags 60 x 90 cm - Banner 2x3 ft with hole

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Printed with UV cured inks providing an incredible high quality printed image which is scratch resistant with colors that will not fade overtime. They then decided that Crete would become an autonomous state under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire. The FLAG strategy aims to strengthen and diversify the economy of fishing zones and coastal areas through the development of additional activities for fishermen (especially in the field of tourism) and the improvement of infrastructure related to fishing as well as tourism activity. In the corners of the cross are the blue letters "Ι Χ Ν Κ", for "Jesus Christ Victorious", as above.

It seems that the flag is today being far from neutral and cannot be seen as a simple regional flag.As a result, the International Squadron and the occupying forces ashore expelled all Ottoman forces from Crete in November 1898. The Cretan Aurtonomous State was created by the European Powers and came into being in December 1898, finally being dissolved and legally incorporated into Greece in December 1913. com and it is forbidden its reproduction, use and modification without express consent of the company. The autonomous Cretan State, under Ottoman suzerainty, garrisoned by an international military force, and with its high commissioner provided by Greece, was founded when Prince George of Greece and Denmark arrived to take office as the first high commissioner ( Greek: Ὕπατος Ἁρμοστής, Hýpatos Harmostēs), effectively detaching Crete from the Ottoman Empire, on 21 December 1898 (9 December according to the Julian calendar).

In May 1912, the Cretan deputies travelled to Athens and tried to enter the Greek Parliament, but were forcibly prevented from doing so by the police. Six Great Powers ( Austria-Hungary, France, the German Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, the Russian Empire, and the United Kingdom) sent warships to Crete in February 1897, and their naval forces combined to form an " International Squadron" charged with intervening to bring fighting on Crete to a halt.The first High Commissioner of the state was Prince George of Greece, who quit the job in 1906 and was replaced by a Greek politician. The book Hellenic flags [k7k97] shows a related flag, the flag of the Sipahis of Epirus in the Pindus mountains, as white with a Greek cross in blue charged with the figure of St. On 13 December 1898, Prince George of Greece and Denmark arrived as high commissioner for a three-year tenure.

The war was ended by the intervention of the Great Powers (the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Russia), who forced the Greek contingent to withdraw from Crete and the Ottoman Army to stop its advance. Spyros Kayales aka Kayaledakis, during the fight for Crete in 1897, took up the Greek flag after the flagpole had been shot away. Soldiers from the armies of five of the powers (Germany declined to send any) arrived to occupy key Cretan cities in late March and April 1897.Change country: -Select- Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Ghana Gibraltar Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq Israel Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of the Congo Reunion Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. Paschalis (ed) Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship, Edinburgh University Press, 2008 p. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

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