{"id":1044,"date":"2024-10-22T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/?page_id=1044"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:54:37","slug":"maps-of-crete-13th-18th-century","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/collections\/historical-collection\/maps-of-crete-13th-18th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps of Crete (13th-18th century)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Crete as a cartographic phenomenon is unique in Greece. No other region is illustrated by so many maps and topographical plans from the sixteenth into the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The maritime Venetian Empire maintained power and authority over the \u2018Kingdom of Crete\u2019 (Regno di Candia), studying the land in minute detail for economic, administrative but mainly defensive reasons. It fought tooth and nail to keep Crete in its possession, publicizing its importance first to the citizens of the Serenissima Republica and then to the rest of Europe. The twenty-five-year siege of Candia <span class=\"s1\"><b>&#8211;<\/b><\/span>today Herakleion<span class=\"s1\"><b>&#8211;<\/b><\/span> the longest in human history \u2013 bears witness to Venice\u2019s concern, as do the countless topographical plans and mappings of the shores and islets, of the important towns and passes, of mountains and seas, which the engineers of the Serenissima Republica have bequeathed us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crete as a cartographic phenomenon is unique in Greece. No other region is illustrated by so many maps and topographical plans from the sixteenth into the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"parent":970,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-collections-historical.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1044","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions\/2400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}