Cantanus

Cantanus or Kantanos (Ancient Greek: Κάντανος),[1] or Cantania or Kantania (Καντανία),[2] was town of ancient Crete, which the Peutinger Table fixes at 24 M.P. from Cisamus. It was a bishop's see under the Byzantine Empire, 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 titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[3]

In the 19th century, Robert Pashley found remains of this city on a conical hill about a mile to the south of Khádros,[4] now called Kandanos.[5][6] The walls can be traced for little more than 150 paces; the style of their masonry attests a high antiquity.

References
  1. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  2. Hierocles. Synecdemus.
  3. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2c31.html
  4. Robert Pashley, Travels vol. ii. p. 116.
  5. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.
  6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cantanus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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