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This engraving comes from Georg Braun's Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572).
On Crete, which came under Venetian sway as early as 1211, Western and Eastern cultures blended. Under the influence of the distant metropolis the urban centres there, including Candia, named after the Arabian El Khandak and now Heraklion, gradually took on a Venetian character, particularly as regards palatial buildings and the design of piazze, or city squares. Its cultural life, too, was shaped by a mixture of Eastern and Western influences.
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