Halepa or Chalepa () was formerly a town in northern

Crete Crete ( ; , Modern Greek, Modern: , Ancient Greek, Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the List of islands by area, 88th largest island in the world and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, fifth la ...

. It is now one of the districts of

Chania Chania (, , ), also sometimes romanization of Greek, romanized as Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania (regional unit), Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno ...

. Its name was once well known owing to the

Pact of Halepa The Pact of Halepa () or Halepa Charter (Χάρτης της Χαλέπας) was an agreement made in 1878 between the Ottoman Empire (then ruled by the Sultan Abdul Hamid II) and the representatives of the Cretan Revolutionary Committee, which se ...

, an agreement of 1878 on the administration of Crete as part of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. The local football team is Asteras Halepa.

Emmanouil Antoniadis Emmanouil Antoniadis (c. 1791–1863) was a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, a politician and a journalist from the island of Crete. Biography He was born in the village of Halepa, near Chania, in about 1791. He acquired great educ ...

and

Konstantinos Mitsotakis Konstantinos Mitsotakis (, ; – 29 May 2017) was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His son, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was elected as the Prime Mi ...

were born in Halepa.

References

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Great Greek Encyclopedia The ''Great Greek Encyclopedia'' (Greek language, Greek: ''Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια'') is a general knowledge Modern Greek language, Greek-language encyclopedia, printed initially between 1926 and 1934. The ency ...

'', vol. 24, p. 416. {{Crete-geo-stub Chania (regional unit)