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      Photo by R. Behaeddin, shot in the times of the Cretan State

      Gate of Agios Georgios

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      The lost temple of the Conqueror

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      Morosini fountain after the Turkish 'intervention'

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      The Venetian walls of Heraklion

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      Photograph taken by the Cretan-Turkish photographer R. Behaeddin during the period of the Cretan State (1898-1913)||

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