iraklion in a sentence

1. the Cretan administration in Iraklion,

2. Spyridoula Toutoudaki is a Greek singer from Iraklion (Crete).

3. Try to spend at least a day in Iraklion, Crete's capital, or preferably a few days.

4. Those who land at Iraklion Airport (Crete) need not to worry, the roads here are excellent.

5. One of them was a royal tomb containing 140 pieces of gold jewellery now displayed in the Iraklion Museum.

6. Iraklion was founded in the year 824 ADKr. of saracenerne, but probably there was a port here since the Bronze Age.

7. The Orthodox Church renovated the building after the Turkish population left Iraklion, and it was reconstructed in 1925.

8. To protect from the relief expeditions of the Byzantines, they built their capital, El Khandak, where today is the site of Iraklion.

9. The city is not as busy as Iraklion and has direct access to the other major cities via the highway on the north side of the island.

10. A brief period around the turn of the century was the capital of Iraklion in a Cretan State, which was then occupied by international forces.

11. Its crew of seven has been arrested, while inspectors continued searching the remaining containers in the port of Crete's largest city, Iraklion.

12. Heraklion (or Iraklion) was the ancient port of Knossos, the most prominent city of the Minoan era and it is the starting point for a visit there.

13. Although it's on the Greek Island of Crete, Iraklion offers a wealth of Venetian architecture from their rule in the 13th century, including magnificent fortified walls.

14. iraklion(also written as heraklion), the administrative capital of crete, is mostly known as the place where cruise ships stop so passengers can make shore excursions to the(overcrowded and underwhelming) ruins of knossos.