It has been referred
that during that period, when the condemned fleet of the unfaithful of
corrupted Venice was leaving Candia, the unfaithful stacked the ships with
people and their families, and one upon the other they sailed from the Island
of the Rabbits (Tavşan ceziresi, i.e. the island of Dia) towards Venice.
Because their ships were overweighed, they suffered from the lack of food and
drink, as the winds constantly changed direction. For this reason they wandered
in the sea too long. Due to the hardship, the hunger and the lack of water they
suffered and got sick; from each ship fifteen to twenty unfaithful dead were
thrown to the sea. Moreover, they encountered a big storm and they hardly
reached an island and anchored. That night, due to the storm, the anchor-chains
of five or six ships were cut, and the ships were drifted by the gale to the
shore of Rumeli, where they crashed. Of the people in them none was saved, they
all perished. After that, they left this island and arrived to the pass of
Venice. For three days the republic of Venice wasn’t willing to give permission
to the condemned fleet to enter and didn’t welcome them, out of grief and
sorrow. Three days later the permission was granted, on the term that the
galleys should remove their masts and antennas, the gallons should lower the yards
of the top mast sail, they should not fire their guns and cannons and they
should enter raising black flags. All the condemned noblemen of the city ceased
that day the feasts, the entertainments and the decoration of their palaces,
they were dressed in black and they mourned. For forty days and nights they
didn’t light a candle in their homes and in their churches and they were in
grief. And all the rest unfaithful citizens of Venice, dignitaries and ordinary
people, noblemen and beggars, mourned for forty days and nights. This is all
about them.
1. Nuri Adıyeke, Hikâyet-i Azimet-i Sefer-i Kandiye More
2. Μαρίνος Τζανέ Μπουνιαλής , Ο κρητικός πόλεμος (1645-1669), Στιγμή, Αθήνα, 1995 More
3. S. Alexiou, G. Mavromatis, T. Detorakis, A. Markomichelaki, S. Kaklamanis, C. Tzobanaki, E. Kolovos - M. Sarigianni, The Cretan war from history to literature, Heraklion, 2008 More
| 5. The “Cretan War” | |
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| 5.1 The Siege and the Fall of Candia (1648-1669) | |
| 5.2 Cretan War and sank of La Thérèse | |
| 5.4 The Cretan War in the Literature | |
| 5.4.1 Anthimos (Akakios) Diakrousis | |
| 5.4.2 Marinos Tzanes Bounialis |