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The postcard shows the personified Greece next to Crete's Chania lighthouse, holding up the Greek flag and the defeated Ottoman flag. Text reads: 'Greece-Crete. Chania lighthouse'.

The Greek flag was hoisted at the nearby fortress in December 1913.
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Greece declared Crete to be Greek territory at the start of the First Balkan War in 1912, a war that saw Greece and the Balkan League (including Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro) expel the Ottomans from much of the Balkans.
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1913-1923 😄
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Treaty of Sèvres.
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