The Gulf of Chania is an embayment of the Sea of Crete in the northwestern region of the island of Crete in present-day Greece. One headland forming the Gulf of Chania is the promontory known as the Akrotiri Peninsula.^[1]

Ancient history

In prehistory the powerful city of Kydonia commanded the Gulf of Chania and was a center of early Cretan art and culture in western Crete.^[2] By 74 BC the city-state of Kydonia fended off an attack by Rome in a naval battle in the Gulf of Chania.^[3]

See also

• Britomartis

Line notes

References

• Chania during antiquity
• C. Michael Hogan, Cydonia, The Modern Antiquarian, Jan. 23, 2008
• Robert Lambert Playfair (1892) Handbook to the Mediterranean: Its Cities, Coasts and Islands, J. Murray publisher

35°35′13″N 23°54′50″E / 35.587°N 23.914°E / 35.587; 23.914

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