Candia
Candia was Venice's colony on Crete, named after its capital. In 1337 the island was under Venetian rule, with a Greek Orthodox population governed by Catholics.
In the fourteenth-century Revolt of Saint Titus, Greek peasants and Venetian settlers joined against taxes imposed by Venice. Crete became an artistic centre whose painters included El Greco. Ottoman armies invaded in 1645; after a long siege Candia fell in 1669, and Venice lost its last three Cretan fortresses in 1715.
Characters
- Albertino Morosini
- Cirillo Venier
- Giovanni Morosini
- Iacopo II Barozzi
- Marino Badoer
- Marino Morosini
- Mario Morosini
- Michel Vitali
- Nicolò Zani
- Tito Venier
- Teodorello Venier
- Viago Zeno