Heraklion

كاندية

City in the island of Crete, Greece.

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Region
al-Andalus & Europe
Identifiers
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Place of death of
Silahdar Cihangirli Mehmed Pasha· Zaifi
Birthplace of
Tunuslu Huseyin Pasa
Site of
Siege of Candia

People and things also explored

إبراهيم الأول· محمد الرابع· Istanbul· Üsküdar· Tunis· Siege of Candia· Silahdar Cihangirli Mehmed Pasha· Tunuslu Huseyin Pasa

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  • Wikidata
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islam.museum contributors. “Heraklion”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/heraklion/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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إبراهيم الأول

Ibrahim I (r. 1640–1648) — opened the long Cretan war against Venice in 1645 by seizing Venetian goods and shipping a fleet to Crete; deposed and killed in the Istanbul mutiny that enthroned his seven-year-old son Mehmed IV.