Crete
- Ancient name
- Creta
- Modern name
- Crete
- Modern country
- Greece
- Coordinates
- 35.18, 24.84
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364264
Crete is the largest of the Greek islands, separating the Aegean Sea and its islands from the rest of the Mediterranean. In Dati's day it was ruled by the Venetians as the Kingdom of Candia from the capital of Candia (now Heraklion).
The toponym Crete appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P046
This toponym only appears in the poem, never in the maps.
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Crete.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/crete/.