 The original Arabic name of Crete was ( < , but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at (modern Iraklion), both the city and the island became known as () or (), which gave Latin, Italian, and Venetian "Candia", from which were derived French "Candie" and English "Candy" or "Candia".Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called ().Crete is the largest island in Greece and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.