Crete

Khaniá / Canea

Maps on our site:

• 1664, Jan Peeters,Canea in Candia
  
  
• 1760-s, Antonio Borg, Piani diversi di tutte le isole..., pl. 117
  
  
• 1764, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Le petit atlas maritime, v. IV, pl. 120
  
  

Originally settled as Greek colony; conquered by Rome 69 BCE; ruled by Arabs from 826 CE; later ruled successively by Byzantines, Venitians, and Ottomans.

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