Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Crete ya rabu da Cyrenaica. Ya kasance lardi ne a cikin rabin gabashin Daular Roman, wanda ake kira da Daular Roman ta Gabas (Byzantine) bayan kafa babban birni na biyu a Constantinople ta Constantine a 330. Crete ya fuskanci harin da Vandals a 467, da manyan girgizar kasa na 365
da 415, wani hari da Slavs a 623, Larabawa hari a 654 da kuma 670s, da kuma sake a cikin 8th karni. A cikin, Sarkin sarakuna Leo III Isaurian ya canza tsibirin daga ikon Paparoma zuwa na Fadar Shugaban Constantinople.