Kydonia
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Excavations of Minoan Kydonia.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Khania
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Kydonia
- Ancient site.map
- 285px
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Map of Minoan Crete
- Ancient site.location
- Chania, Crete, Greece
- Ancient site.type
- Minoan settlement
- Ancient site.cultures
- Minoan, Mycenaean
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Early Bronze
- Middle Bronze
- Late pre-palatial period
- Neo-palatial period
- Late Bronze
- Mycenean period
- Iron Age
- Hellenistic period
- Roman period
- Late Antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Modernity
- Identification
- Necropolis
- Legacy
- Famous Kydonians
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
thumb|right|250px|Excavations of Minoan Kydonia.
Kydonia ( or ), also known as Cydonia (, Kydōnía) was an ancient city located at the site of present-day Chania near the west end of the island of Crete in Greece. The city is known from archaeological remains dating back to the Minoan era as well as literary and historical sources. It was added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kydonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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