Popular tourist attractions include the archaeological sites of the Minoan civilisation, the Venetian old city and port of Chania, the Venetian castle at Rethymno, the gorge of Samaria, the islands of Chrysi, Elafonisi, Gramvousa, and Spinalonga and the Palm Beach of Vai, which is the largest natural palm forest in Europe.

* 1263 – Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.

* Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.

Chania (,, Venetian: Canea, Ottoman Turkish: خانيه Hanya ) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit.

This consists of the city of Chania along with 7 towns and villages: Mournies ( pop.

The city of Chania lies around from the west end of Crete.

Some notable archaeological evidence for the existence of this Minoan city below some parts of today's Chania was found by excavations in the district of Kasteli in the Old Town.

The city reemerged after the end of the Minoan period as an important city-state in Classical Greece, one whose domain extended from Chania Bay to the feet of the White Mountains.

In this period the Arabic name of the city was changed into Greek Chania.

The city of Chania during the period that followed was a blend of Byzantine, Venetian and Classical Greek cultural elements.

Another important period for the city of Chania was the invasion and occupation by German forces during World War II.

European route E75 runs through the city and connects Heraklion with the three other major cities of Crete: Agios Nikolaos, Chania, and Rethymno.

The Christian district of Chania was set on fire and many fled to the foreign fleet anchored outside the city.

Its capital is the city of Chania.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had been moving slowly in Atlanta matters, was spurred by the AFL interest and headed on the next plane down to Atlanta to block the rival league's claim on the city of Atlanta.

The service was slowly being expanded over the years as more postal offices were established in each large city by 1918.

The city slowly grew ; by 1960 it had reached its 1880, boom-time population.

As the city's population — and public college enrollment — grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs.

The British commander, Lowe, worked slowly, unsure of the size of the force he was up against, and with only 1, 269 troops in the city when he arrived from the Curragh Camp in the early hours of Tuesday 25 April.

Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the city slowly declined and was abandoned in the Byzantine era.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had been moving slowly in Atlanta matters, was spurred by the AFL interest and headed on the next plane down to Atlanta to block the rival league's claim on the city of Atlanta.

The city slowly came under the control of the Karzai administration after 2002, which is led by President Hamid Karzai.

Much of the North End is made up of the former city of Portland and comprises another former working class area which is slowly undergoing gentrification at the eastern end of Douglas Avenue ; immediately north of Portland and upstream from the Reversing Falls is the former community of Indiantown.

The two separate townsites of the colony developed slowly into the port city of Fremantle and the state's capital, Perth.

Bernard von Galen withdraws from the city of Groningen slowly to the south.

Over the 13th to 15th centuries, the citizens of the city slowly emancipated themselves from the higher nobility.

The city has expanded slowly over the years along river banks and on high ground.

He took advantage of various squabbles in Europe to slowly regain territory from both the French and the Spanish, including the city of Turin.

In the 19th century, the city walls were torn down and it slowly began to expand, a process interrupted by the War of Independence against Napoleon ( 1804 – 14 ) and the Carlist Wars ( 1833 – 63 ).

Marduk ( Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR. UTU " solar calf "; perhaps from MERI. DUG ; Biblical Hebrew Merodach ; Greek, Mardochaios ) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi ( 18th century BCE ), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BCE.

The town grew slowly until the 1880s, when railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started Tampa's development and helped it to grow into an important city by the early 1900s.

With the rural population moving in the capital city, in the 19th century slowly Hungarians became the majority in Buda too.

As the city grew permission to settle there became less easily obtained by Jews, and the community developed more slowly.

When voters approved connection to State water supplies in 1991, parts of the city, especially outlying areas, resumed growth, but more slowly than during the boom period of the 1950s and 1960s.

As the factories slowly began to reopen, the city began to tear down old buildings and replace them with new businesses.

The city grew slowly, reaching 6, 500 people in 1960 and remaining nearly flat through 1990.

The city became the trade center of the region but the population grew relatively slowly.

Winfall is slowly growing, but double taxes have forced some residents to flee, the same for other residents in its twin town of Hertford ( the double taxes, only count for the county and city, but they are still low ).