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Crete
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Crete
Crete
/
kriːt
/
the largest
island
belonging to Greece, in the
southeast
Mediterranean
Sea
. The important
Minoan
civilization
was
based
on Crete between 3000 BC and 1100 BC.
—
Cretan
noun, adjective
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