Byzantine Crete

Crete
Κρήτη (Krḗtē)
Province of the Byzantine Empire
c. 297 – c. 824/827
961–1205

Diocese of Macedonia, c. 400
CapitalGortyn (until 820s)
Chandax (from 961)
History 
• Crete separated
    from Cyrenaica
c. 297
c. 824 or 827
• Byzantine reconquest
960–961
• Genoese / Venetian
    conquest
1205
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Creta et Cyrenaica
Emirate of Crete
Emirate of Crete
Kingdom of Candia
Today part ofGreece

The island of Crete came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire in two periods: the first extends from the late antique period (3rd century) to the conquest of the island by Andalusian exiles in the late 820s, and the second from the island's reconquest in 961 to its capture by the competing forces of Genoa and Venice in 1205.