Cantanus or Kantanos (), or Cantania or Kantania (Καντανία), was town of

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, which the

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fixes at 24 M.P. from

Cisamus Detail of a Roman mosaic found at Cisamus Statue of emperor Hadrian from Cisamus Cisamus or Kisamos () was town of ancient Crete. It appears as one of two towns of the name in the Peutinger Table 32 M.P. to the west of Cydonia. The name appear ...

. It was a bishop's see under the

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, and when the Venetians obtained possession of the island they established a Latin bishop here, as in every other diocese. No longer the site of a residential bishop, it remains a

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of the

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. In the 19th century,

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found remains of this city on a conical hill about a mile to the south of Khádros, now called

Kandanos Kandanos or Kantanos (), also Candanos, is a town and former municipality in the Chania (regional unit), Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kantanos-Selino, of which it is a m ...

. The walls can be traced for little more than 150 paces; the style of their masonry attests a high antiquity.

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