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Iráklion

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Iráklion

Chief commercial port and capital city of Crete, Greece; population (1991) 117,200. There is a ferry link to Peiraias on the mainland. The archaeological museum contains a fine collection of antiquities from the island.

In World War II, it was an important British base for the airborne evacuation of Crete following the German invasion of the island.
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