Chania

Chania, also romanized as Hania, is a city on the north west coast of the island of Crete in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies about 70 kilometres west of Rethymno and 145 kilometres west of Heraklion. The municipality, which includes the city and nearby areas such as Souda, Galatas and Perivolia, had 111,375 inhabitants in 2021. The site was a Minoan settlement and later the Greek city-state of Cydonia, the source of the English word quince; Venetians re-established it as Canea in the thirteenth century, and the Ottomans took it after a siege during the Cretan War. In 1898 it became the capital of the semi-autonomous Cretan State. The Old Town around the Venetian harbour, the Kasteli district and the Topanas quarter make it a major tourist centre.