Chania port Lighthouse Crete 01 Photograph by Weston Westmoreland

Chania port Lighthouse Crete 01

by Weston Westmoreland

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Chania port Lighthouse Crete 01

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Weston Westmoreland

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Sunset behind Chania port lighthouse, Crete, Greece. Full image.

A sunset view of the lighthouse at beautiful Chania, Crete. If you have been to Chania, ther is not much left to ad. If you have not, lucky you, you have Chania to discover for the first time yet!

Chania is the site of the Minoan settlement the Greeks called Kydonia, the source of the word quince. The name of the city is first mentioned in Linear B tablets from Knossos as Mycenaean Greek. Some notable archaeological evidence for the existence of this Minoan city below some parts of today's Chania was found by excavations in the Old Town. This area appears to have been inhabited since the Neolithic.

Chania reemerged after the end of the Minoan period as an important city-state in Classical Greece, one whose domain extended from Chania Bay to the feet of the White Mountains. The first major wave of settlers from mainland Greece was by the Dorians who came around 1100 BC. Kydonia was constantly at war with other Cretan city-states such as Aptera, Phalasarna and Polyrrinia and was important enough for the Kydonians to be mentioned in Homer's Odyssey (xix.200). In 69 BC, the Roman consul Q. Caecilius Metellus defeated the Cretans and conquered Kydonia, to which he granted the privileges of an independent city-state. Kydonia reserved the right to mint its own coins until the third century AD.

Along the rest of Crete, Chania has been coveted and invaded unaccountable times through history, Byzantine, Venetian, Ottoman, semi-independent, Greek...

Built in 1864, the lighthouse at Chania port was erected on the site of the original lighthouse constructed by the Venetians. The Ottomans took the city by force in 1645 and the lighthouse was left to ruins. Egyptian troops rebuilt it in 1864. Only the base of the Venetian structure remains.

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September 15th, 2023

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