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Crete, Greece.
The Romans completed their conquest of Crete in 67 BCE. The campaign was led by the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, who was appointed to address the island's role as a headquarters for Mediterranean pirates. Following the conquest, the island was annexed and organized as a Roman province linked with Cyrenaica in North Africa.12