Cantanus or Kantanos (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Κάντανος), 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.[1]
In the 19th century, Robert Pashley found remains of this city on a conical hill about a mile to the south of Khádros,[2] now called Kandanos. The walls can be traced for little more than 150 paces; the style of their masonry attests a high antiquity.