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The City as Multiethnic Palimpsest





Chania is one of the main urban centres of the island of Crete, situated in the south of Greece and in the most southerly part of the Balkans and Europe.  Up until the present, Crete has had a geopolitically important position in the Mediterranean as a point of entrance to Europe, Asia, and Africa.

As a harbour city, Chania has been historically a cosmopolitan urban centre, a commercial and cultural Mediterranean crossroads, and a cultural palimpsest made up of Greek, Roman, Arab, Venetian, Jewish and Ottoman-Turkish layers. 


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