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Kazantzakis’s home town, the Megalo Kastro of 1889, where a fierce captain leads his neighbours against the Ottomans.
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Heraklion
A Cretan childhood under the Turks in Heraklion, then a life of wandering from it.
1889: a Cretan captain and his town rise against the Ottomans.
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