Estimated losses reached roughly 62,000 Venetians and 238,000 Ottomans, while Crete's population is said to have fallen from about 280,000 to 80,000. Fighting, flight, and enslavement all reduced the population. The ravaged island could no longer produce enough food to sustain its people. These losses were the human and material cost of a strategy that continued for twenty-four years.
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Twenty-four years of war devastate Crete
The war's enormous military losses and the collapse of Crete's population underline how a long siege campaign consumed an entire island society.