Agia Varvara lies on the busy north-south line from Heraklion on the south coast of the island towards the centre.
After a period under Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, he was again hired by Venice, as governor of Candia.
She has won three World Youth Chess Championship titles: in 2004, she won the Girls Under-14 in Heraklion, Greece, and in 2006, she won the Girls Under 18 in Batumi, Georgia.
At the European Team Chess Championship at Heraklion in 2007, he contributed another plus score (4.5/8) to the Netherlands team total.
In 1881 census, it is referred in the municipality of Episkopi, with 123 Christian and 128 Muslim families.
Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Heraklion, of which it is a municipal unit.
During that time he had an exposition in the Teodocopulus Gallery in Athens and the Cristos Gallery in Heraklion.
Kastelli, Heraklion, a municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece
The island was at the time and up to the early modern era commonly known as Candia after its capital, Candia or Chandax (modern Heraklion).
Manolis Papadrakakis (Greek: Μανόλης Παπαδρακάκης; 27 September 1948 in Heraklion, Crete), is a Greek Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, who works in Computational Mechanics.
MBS College of Crete is an accredited private college in Heraklion, Crete, Greece established in 1979, providing Bachelor and Master degrees of Nottingham Trent University, Staffordshire University and the University of London International Programmes.
Like Jacopo Sansovino he was a salaried official of the Republic of Venice, but unlike Sansovino, his commissions lay in Venetian territories outside Venice; he was no less distinguished as a military architect, and was employed in strengthening Venetian fortifications in Crete, Candia, Dalmatia and Corfu as well as a great fort at the Lido, guarding the sea entrance to the Venetian lagoon.
Minás Dimákis was born 1913 in Heraklion, Crete, to Georgios Dimákis, a tradesman, and Maria Metaxaki.
Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipal units Asterousia and Kofinas, and parts of the municipal units Agia Varvara, Arkalochori and Nikos Kazantzakis.
On 6 April 1978, she was renamed Knossos and subsequently entered service on Minoan Lines Piraeus—Heraklion route.
After having studied Greek in Venice under Marcus Musurus of Candia, he was employed for some time as a proofreader by the printer Aldus Manutius.
At the end of October 1669 Clement IX fell ill after receiving news that the Venetian fortress of Candia in Crete had surrendered to the Turks.
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Agia Pelagia (Dimos Gaziou) is a seaside fishing village built in the centre of a picturesque amphitheatric bay, 23 km northwest from Heraklion capital city of the island of Crete.
On June 8, 2011 ANEK Lines and Superfast Ferries created a joint venture in Piraeus-Heraklion and Patra-Igoumenitsa-Ancona routes with two RO-PAX ships in the first one (the ANEK-owned "Olympic Champion" and the Superfast-owned "Superfast XII") and three in the second one (the ANEK-owned "Hellenic Spirit" and the Superfast-owned "Superfast VI" and "Superfast XI").
Dimitris Raptakis, (Greek: Δημήτρης Ραπτάκης; born 20 January 1988 in Heraklion, Crete), is a Greek professional football player who last played for AEL 1964.
He was known to his contemporaries in Latin as Helias Hebreus Cretensis or in Italian Elias de Candia Del Medigo) (c. 1458 – c. 1493).
As a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (1961–77), he participated in general congresses at New Delhi (1961), Uppsala (1969) and Nairobi (1975) as well as at the annual sessions of the Central Committee at Paris (1962), Geneva (1966, 1973 and 1976), Heraklion (1967), Canterbury (1969), Addis Ababa (1971), Utrecht (1972), Berlin (1974), etc.
Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Malevizi, the municipal unit Gorgolainis and parts of Paliani and Heraklion.
Ntinos Konstantakis (born 13 April 1986 in Heraklion, Greece) is a Greek football player who played for Olympiakos Chersonissos during the 2008–09 Gamma Ethniki season.
Aiming to disrupt these operations, British generals in Cairo sent three groups from the Special Boat Squadron (SBS) and one from Stirling's Special Air Service (SAS) to Crete to sabotage the airfields of Heraklion, Kastelli Pediados, Tympaki and Maleme.
Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Heraklion (except the municipal unit Gorgolainis and a few other villages) and the municipal unit Archanes.
Koutsianikoulis had traveled to Heraklion in April 2007 to be tried out by then OFI coach, Reiner Maurer in a friendly against Ergotelis.
the Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium in Heraklion, Crete, is popularly nicknamed "Yedi Kule".