Cantanus

Contents

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. 1.Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  2. 2.Hierocles. Synecdemus.
  3. 3."Cantanus (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
  4. 4.Robert Pashley, Travels vol. ii. p. 116.
  5. 5.Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  6. 6.Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.