The
Cretan State (,
Kritiki Politia; ,
Girit Devleti), was established in 1898, following the intervention by the
Great Powers (Britain, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Russia) on the island of
Crete. In 1897 an insurrection in Crete led the
Ottoman Empire to
declare war on
Greece, which led
Great Britain,
France,
Italy and
Russia to intervene on the grounds that the Ottoman Empire could no longer maintain control. It was the prelude of the island's final annexation to the
Kingdom of Greece, which occurred
de facto in 1908 and
de jure in 1913.