What is "cretans"

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Briefly summarized, this novel tells the story of the revolt of 1889 by the suppressed Cretans against their Turkish oppressors, as well as a love intrigue in which the two Cretan hefoes, the captains Michales and Polyxigis, fight with each other and with the noble Turk Nun Bey about the same Circasfian woman.

Truly the bodies of Cretans, strong though they are, do not come up to the strength of their souls, he thought.

I accuse God of not having given us Cretans bodies of steel with which to hold out for the hundred, two hundred, three hundred years until we have set Crete free.

At first the Cretans had supposed that smooth skin natural and were not angry.

With goggling eyes he watched the Cretans at his feet bite their bits of clay and chew them until they became sand and grit, which they swallowed with a snigger.

In the whole of Christendom there was no people that shared so deeply, so bloodily, in so special a way, in the sufferings of Christ as the Cretans during these decades.

Metropolitan sent Hadjisavas to Athens with letters in which he adjured the Greek brethren to send ships and save the Christian Cretans from the knives that had already been drawn by the Turks.

He understood what the two Cretans were talking about: guns, mountains and hiding places.

He carried on conversations with the Cretans in his modern Greek gibberish and eagerly and continuously made notes.

He sent the pasha a shipload of chains and ordered him to capture the rebel Cretans and send them in chains to Constantinople.

The privileges which in my goodness of heart I had extended to the Cretans, I withdraw, because they have showed themselves treacherous and rebellious.

As the days of Passion Week went by, the excitement of the Cretans rose.

The Metropolitan sent Hadjisavas to Athens with letters in which he adjured the Greek brethren to send ships and save the Christian Cretans from the knives that had already been drawn by the Turks.

Lightly armoured in baked leather chest-guards, the Cretans set off at a run to line up behind the advancing regiments.

It was the Mesomphalos of the earlier Greeks, and the Omphalium of the Cretans, dominating the Elysian fields, upon whose tops, bathed in pure, brilliant, incomparable light, the gods passed their days in ceaseless joys.