Other Venetian Territories in The Aegean
The Venetians controlled other islands as colonies, not as part of the Duchy or the Latin Empire. They bought Crete from Boniface of Montferrat, leader of the Fourth Crusade, in 1204, and from 1207 to 1211 the Venetians conquered it from the Maltese Enrico Pescatore (who had taken it in 1206). Jacopo Tiepolo was installed as the first duke.
Venice also controlled much of Euboea (Negroponte), where they had a trading colony, and controlled various ports on mainland Greece.
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