Talk:History of Crete
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Wikinfo:Cretan/Spartan connection FYI (Deleted by Wikipedians 6 Mar 2006.)
I have corrected some various typos, such as Venezelos becoming Venizelos, etc... --Xenophonos 21:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lead section
This article could use a decent Wikipedia:Lead section to introduce and summarize the rest of the article. The same paragraph could be used as an overview in the Crete article, as described in Wikipedia:Summary style. Thanks! — Catherine\talk 07:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 19th century population figures
One result of the Ottoman conquest was that a sizeable proportion of the population converted to Islam. Contemporary estimates vary, but on the eve of the Greek War of Independence as much as 45% of the population[1] of the island may have been Muslim. It declined sharply during the 19th century and there are conflicting estimates of its numbers, but according to British consular reports which are probably the most independent guesses, at the end of the nineteenth century, the Cretan Muslims still numbered around 100,000.
Apparently this does _not_ exist in the source claimed below, so unless someone comes up with a source that can even prove its existence as minority view, I'll remove it this afternoon. Enough is enough. Miskin 06:30, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
It was added by User:Barchard on 26 February 2006 and remained since. [1] I added the William Yale source but kept the percentage stated. Since there were two sources (one of them Greek) that confirmed each other, I felt comfortable with it.
According to William Yale, when the Greek War of Independence broke out on the mainland in 1821, the population of Crete was approximately 290,000, of whom 160,000 were Moslems and 130,000 were Christians; and the overwhelming majority of these were Greek-speaking Cretans [2] Excerpts from The Near East: A modern history by William Yale (Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1958)
One Greek source notes that, had it not been for the Greek War of Independece, the island would have been completely Islamicized. A Greek point of view on Cretan Turks
How do we make sure that Apparently this does _not_ exist in the source claimed below? The two sources above are a click away and one of them is British and the other is Greek.
Please stick to the article content in discussions. You checked William Yale's book, and the Greek site uses a figure of speech. I will check also. User:Cretanforever
See my last edits in order to realise what was wrong with yours. Miskin 10:36, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
