Kandanos

Kandanos or Kantanos (Greek: Καντανος) is a town (c. 61 km SW from Chania city) and municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the Selino province which covers the southwest of the island in Chania Prefecture.

Kandanos has been settled since Dorian times with the same name, and was important through Byzantine times. The town and surrounding area suffered particularly badly from German occupation during World War II. Resistance fighters had held advancing German soldiers for two days, preventing them from reaching Paleochora to secure it. In retribution the occupiers razed the village to the ground and erected a sign:

Destruction of Kandanos,

Here stood Kandanos, destroyed in retribution for the murder of 25 German soldiers, never to be rebuilt again.

The town was rebuilt however, and the sign retained in a war memorial. Several of the Byzantine churches and their frescoes were restored. Germany donated a waterworks after the war to the village and former soldiers stationed there returned in reconciliation.

The head town of the municipality and of Selino is Kandanos.

Division of the municipality

• Kandanos / Δ.δ. Κανδάνου (Καντάνου) [ 967 ]
  
  • Kandanos / ο Κάνδανος (τ.Κάντανος) [ 564 ]
    
  • Agioi Apostoloi / οι Άγιοι Απόστολοι [ 45 ]
    
  • Anisarakion / το Ανισαράκιον [ 97 ]
    
  • Vamvakades / οι Βαμβακάδες [ 3 ]
    
  • Kavallariana / τα Καβαλλαριανά [ 22 ]
    
  • Lofos / ο Λόφος [ 47 ]
    
  • Pano Floria / τα Πάνω Φλώρια [ 30 ]
    
  • Spina / η Σπίνα [ 25 ]
    
  • Trachiniakos / ο Τραχινιάκος [ 65 ]
    
  • Floria / τα Φλώρια [ 34 ]
    
  • Chrysopigi / η Χρυσοπηγή [ 35 ]
    
• Kakodikion / Δ.δ. Κακοδικίου [ 308 ]
  
  • Kakodikion / το Κακοδίκιον [ 38 ]
    
  • Armion / το Αρμίον [ 24 ]
    
  • Kadros / το Κάδρος [ 47 ]
    
  • Kallithea / η Καλλιθέα [ 51 ]
    
  • Maroudiana / τα Μαρουδιανά [ 18 ]
    
  • Meniana / τα Μενιανά [ 22 ]
    
  • Pallikariana / τα Παλληκαριανά [ 41 ]
    
  • Pappadiana / τα Παππαδιανά [ 29 ]
    
  • Sfakos / ο Σφακός [ 38 ]
    
• Plemeniana / Δ.δ. Πλεμενιανών [ 332 ]
  
  • Plemeniana / τα Πλεμενιανά [ 117 ]
    
  • Grigoriana / τα Γρηγοριανά [ 16 ]
    
  • Despotiko / το Δεσποτικό [ 32 ]
    
  • Drys / ο Δρυς [ 69 ]
    
  • Kopetoi / οι Κοπετοί [ 49 ]
    
  • Motziana / τα Μοτζιανά [ 8 ]
    
  • Sellia / τα Σέλλια [ 21 ]
    
  • Psariana / τα Ψαριανά [ 20 ]
    

Links

Municipality description

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