Cantanus
Κάντανος
Cantanus (Κάντανος, Steph. B. sub voce Καντανία, Hierocles: Eth. Καντάνιος, Steph. B. sub voce a city of Crete, which the Peutinger Table fixes at 24 M. P. from Cisamos. It was a bishop's see under the Byzantine emperors, and when the Venetians obtained possession of the island they established a Latin bishop here, as in every other diocese. Mr. Pashley (Trav. vol. ii. p. 116) found remains of this city on a conical hill about a mile to the S. of Khádros The walls can be traced for little more than 150 paces; the style of their masonry attests a high antiquity.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.