Cantanus
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title:
Cantanus
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Cantanus or Kantanos, or Cantania or Kantania (Καντανία), was town of ancient Crete, which the Peutinger Table fixes at 24 M.P. from Cisamus. It was a bishop's see under the Byzantine Empire, and when the Venetians obtained possession of the island they established a Latin bishop here, as in every other diocese. No longer the site of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. In the 19th century, Robert Pashley found remains of this city on a conical hill about
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantanus
date created:
2019-02-26T21:07:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T17:00:22Z
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