Turcocretan

English

Etymology

From Turco- +‎ Cretan, after Greek Τουρκοκρήτες (Tourkokrítes).

Noun

Turcocretan (plural Turcocretans)

1. A Muslim inhabitant of Crete (until 1923), or one of their descendants.
   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 155:

     The Turcocretans, as Muslims, looked to the Ottoman Empire for protection and were loyal to its institutions.

Anagrams

• contracture