An Idea of Farming Output
"In good years it can yield 500 thousand mistata of oil [1 mistato = 2 gallons] and an exceeding large quantity of must and malvasia brusco [malmsey]. It produces entire shiploads of cheese. 80 thousand of raisins, 10 thousand of oldano [labdanum]. 5 thousand of acorns. Honey in great quantity. As much salt as one wants can be produced."
(Excerpt from Provveditor General Francisco Morosini's report in 1629, Stergios G. Spanakis, Monuments of Cretan History, vol. II, Heraklion 1950, pp. 103-4- in Greek)
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Miniature from the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, with scenes from life on the land and at sea, 12th century
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