Editing Chania (section)

===Minoan era===
{{main|Cydonia, Crete}}
[[File:AMC - Hellenistischer Frauenkopf.jpg|thumb|220px|left|Hellenistic head of a woman from the [[Cydonia, Crete#Necropolis|cemetery]] of ancient Cydonia in the [[Archaeological Museum of Chania]].]]

Chania was the site of a [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] settlement, known from [[Linear B]] tablets from [[Knossos]] as having been named {{translit|gmy|Ku-do-ni-ja}} ({{langx|gmy|𐀓𐀈𐀛𐀊}}). The subsequent Greek settlement was likewise known as '''[[Cydonia, Crete|Cydonia]]''' ({{langx|grc|Κυδωνία}}, ''Kydōnía''), ultimately the source of the English word "[[quince]]". 

Some notable [[archaeological]] evidence for the existence of this Minoan city below some parts of today's Chania was found by excavations<ref name="Hogan">{{cite web | url=http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/10881/cydonia.html#fieldnotes | title=Cydonia | publisher=The Modern Antiquarian | date=January 23, 2008 | access-date=March 31, 2012 | author=Hogan, C Michael | quote=Cydonia is one of the five great cities of Minoan Crete, although exact location of the ancient city was not even resolved until the latter half of the 20th century. The most powerful centre of western Crete, Cydonia produced Bronze Age pottery and Linear B writings circa 1700 to 1500 BC, and was one of the first cities of Europe to mint coinage. A temple of Britomartis was erected on Mount Tityros near the city.  HISTORY Cydonia was likely established as a Neolithic settlement in the fourth millennium BC. Archaeological excavations in the old town of present day Chania have revealed the remains of Middle Minoan Period Cydonia. These explorations are difficult, since the entire Venetian city of Chania was developed over Cydonia, with virtually no recorded medieval or modern mention of the ancient city specifics until the first finds in 1965. (Andreadaki, ) Ancient mention of the civilization in Cydonia is also made by Polybius, Strabo, Scylax and by Hanno in the ''Periplus''. (Smith, 1878) Pashley was able to work out rather accurately the location of ancient Cydonia without any archaeological data; he deduced the location near the port and Old Town from passages in the classical literature. (Pashley, 1837)}}</ref> in the district of Kasteli in the Old Town. This area appears to have been inhabited since the [[Neolithic|Neolithic Age]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chania - A City Of Many Tales |url=https://www.chaniatourism.gr/history/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=Chania - A City Of Many Tales |language=en-US}}</ref>