Turcocretan
English edit
Etymology edit
From Turco- + Cretan, after Greek Τουρκοκρήτες (Tourkokrítes).
Noun edit
Turcocretan (plural Turcocretans)
- A Muslim inhabitant of Crete (until 1923), or one of their descendants.
- 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 155:
- The Turcocretans, as Muslims, looked to the Ottoman Empire for protection and were loyal to its institutions.