Editing Crete (section)

===Byzantine Empire – first period===
{{Main|Byzantine Crete}}

[[File:Crete MoniArkadiou1 tango7174.jpg|250px|thumb|[[Arkadi Monastery]]]]

Crete was separated from Cyrenaica {{circa|297}}. It remained a province within the eastern half of the Roman Empire, usually referred to as the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire after the establishment of a second capital in Constantinople by Constantine in 330. Crete was subjected to an attack by [[Vandals]] in 467, the great earthquakes of [[365 Crete earthquake|365]] and 415, a raid by [[Slavs]] in 623, Arab raids in 654 and the 670s, and again in the 8th century. In {{circa|732}}, the Emperor [[Leo III the Isaurian]] transferred the island from the jurisdiction of the [[Pope]] to that of the [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]].{{sfn|Gregory|Kazhdan|1991|p=546}}