Kantanos-Selino
Kantanos-Selino is a municipality in Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. It is numbered 4 on the map of the Chania region. The seat of the municipality is the village of Palaiochora.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 6,300 residents
- Description: municipality in Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Kantanos-Selino Municipality”
- Neighbors: Platanias
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ancient Hyrtakina and Sotiros Christos.
Ancient Hyrtakina
Archaeological site
Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hyrtacina or Hyrtakina, also written as Hyrsacina or Hyrsakina, or Artacina or Artakina, was a city of ancient Crete, which, little as we learn of its position from Ptolemy and Stephanus of Byzantium, yet we may safely infer from the former's words that it was situated to the southeast of Polyrrhenia, and to the west of Lappa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kandanos and Temenia.
Kandanos
Village
Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kandanos or Kantanos, also Candanos, is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kantanos-Selino, of which it is a municipal unit.
Temenia
Hamlet
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Temenia is a community and a small village in Chania regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of East Selino. The community consists of the following villages : Near Temenia is located the ancient city of Yrtakina.
Kantanos-Selino
- Category: municipality of Greece
- Location: Chania, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Kantanos-Selino” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dimos Kantanos-Selino”
- Chinese: “坎达诺斯-塞利诺”
- Dutch: “Kantanos-Selino”
- Finnish: “Kántanos-Sélino”
- French: “dème de Kándanos-Sélino”
- French: “Dème de Kándanos-Sélino”
- German: “Kandanos-Selino”
- German: “Kantanos-Selino”
- Greek: “Δήμος Καντάνου - Σελίνου”
- Greek: “Δήμος Καντάνου-Σελίνου”
- Greek: “Καντάνου - Σέλινου”
- Ido: “Municipo Kandanos-Selino”
- Italian: “Kantanos-Selino”
- Japanese: “カンダノス＝セリノ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kándanos-Sélino”
- Polish: “Kandanos-Selino”
- Polish: “Kantanos–Selino”
- Portuguese: “Cántanos-Sélino”
- Portuguese: “Kantanos-Selino”
- Russian: “Канданос-Селино”
- Spanish: “Dímos Kantánou - Selínou”
- Spanish: “Kántanos-Sélino”
- Spanish: “municipio de Kandanos-Selino”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Kantanos-Selino”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Kantanou - Selino”
- Spanish: “Δήμος Καντάνου - Σελίνου”
- Swedish: “Dimos Kantanos-Selino”
- Turkish: “Kadano-Selino belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Kandanos-Selino”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Stratoi and Avdhoulianá.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Yrtakína and Armós.
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