THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNDER OTTOMAN RULE

The islad of Crete was coquered by the Ottomas i the mid-seveteeth cetury, ad was their last sigificat, ad log-lastig, coquest of territory ot previously held. Ottoma Crete has i recet years attracted historias’ attetio for a umber of reasos, amog which two particularities related to broader themes i Ottoma history stad out: the istitutio of private ladowership i 1670 i breach of the age-log traditio of the miri (‘state’) lad system, ad the emergece of a large Muslim populatio, maily through the coversio of locals to Islam.