The aim of the victorious was to install the entire Christian population of Candia there with a powerful military force that is inside the fortress built buildings able to House ten to fifteen thousand population.
In 961 a.d. after Arabic month siege of Chandax, the Byzantine army with his victory restores Crete within the Byzantine Empire, after 135 years of Arab conquest. Nikiforos fokas thought and acted with determination and monolithic featuring the military.
The aim of the victorious was to install the entire Christian population of Candia there with a powerful military force that is inside the fortress built buildings able to House ten to fifteen thousand population.