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FLORIA (Settlement) KANDANOS
The village of Floria is 46km from Chania on the Chania - Tavronitis
- Floria - Kandanos road. It has two sections, Ano Floria and Kato Floria. The
village resisted the Germans in 1941 when they were marching towards Kandanos
and was completely destroyed. Floria has two Byzantine churches.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
KADROS (Settlement) KANDANOS
The village of Kadros is 66km from Chania on a left exit from the
Chania - Tavronitis - Kandanos - Paleohora road. There is a pleasant view of the
area from the village, located on a high hill, and nearby there are traces of
remainders of an ancient city (Kandanos according to Pashley) as well as Byzantine
churches.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
KAKODIKI (Village) KANDANOS
The village of Kakodiki is 65km from Chania on the Chania - Tavronitis
- Kandanos - Paleohora road, and has many Byzantine churches in different areas
of the village. Unfortunately the churches are locked.
KANDANOS (Village) CHANIA
Kandanos is the capital of Selino and is 58km from Chania on the
Chania - Tavronitis - Kandanos road. Kandanos receives the most rainfall in
Crete and a small river flows there year-round. Kandanos is surrounded by olive
groves. Near Kandanos there are many interesting Byzantine churches.
In the Greek and Roman periods a city called Kandanos or Kandania flourished
here. Its position is not certain, but most people believe that it was at the
site of the modern city Kandanos, not in Kadros, more to the south, as others
assume. Remains from a very large building with a mosaic floor of the third
century A.D. were found here. The church in Tzevremiana, near Kandanos, is thought
to be on the site of a bishopric church from the first Byzantine period. Ancient
Kandanos might have been destroyed by the Arabs.
During the Turkish occupation, Kandanos became the home of some very wild Turkish
people and many battles took place here to drive them out. In World War II,
the people in Kandanos resisted the Germans and the town was razed to the ground
"so that it is never to be built again", as the inscription that was left says.
The scene of the heroic stand was south of Kandanos in a gorge. The Cretans
delayed a German force for two days and the ensuing death of twenty-five Germans
resulted in the destruction of Kandanos.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
KANTANOS (Ancient city) KANDANOS
In the Greek and Roman periods a city called Kandanos or Kandania
flourished here. Its position is not certain, but most people believe that it
was at the site of the modern city Kandanos, not in Kadros, more to the south,
as others assume. Remains from a very large building with a mosaic floor of the
third century A.D. were found here. The church in Tzevremiana, near Kandanos,
is thought to be on the site of a bishopric church from the first Byzantine period.
Ancient Kandanos might have been destroyed by the Arabs.
This extract is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
Cantanus (Kantanos, Steph. B.; Kantania, Hierocles: Eth. Kantanios,
Steph. B.), a city of Crete, which the Peutinger Table fixes at 24 M. P. from
Cisamos. It was a bishop's see under the Byzantine emperors, and when the Venetians
obtained possession of the island they established a Latin bishop here, as in
every other diocese. Mr. Pashley (Trav. vol. ii. p. 116) found remains of this
city on a conical hill about a mile to the S. of Khadros. The walls can be traced
for little more than 150 paces; the style of their masonry attests a high antiquity.
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