Kydonia (/sɪˈdoʊniə/ or /kaɪˈdoʊniə/), also known as Cydonia (Greek: Κυδωνία, Kydōnía) was an ancient city located at the site of present-day Chania on...
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Xerocrassa kydonia is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. This species is endemic to Greece...
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Kydonia Province (Greek: Επαρχία Κυδωνίας) was one of the province of Chania Prefecture, Crete, Greece. Its territory corresponded with that of the current...
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Nea Kydonia (Greek: Νέα Κυδωνία) is a former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part...
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ancients called the fruit "golden apples". The Greeks associated it with Kydonia on Crete, as the "Cydonian pome", and Theophrastus, in his Enquiry into...
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held in her honor. As Diktynna, her face was pictured on Cretan coins of Kydonia, Polyrrhenia and Phalasarna as the nurse of Zeus. On Crete, she was connected...
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the name Cydonia was drawn from classical antiquity, in this case from Kydonia (Ancient Greek: Κυδωνία; Latin: Cydonia), a historic polis (city state)...
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BC) was a Greek sculptor in the Classical period (5th century BC), from Kydonia. He was trained in Argos and then worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian...
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Greek torpedo boat Kydoniai (redirect from Greek torpedo boat Kydonia)
The Greek torpedo boat Kydoniai (Greek: TA Κυδωνίαi) served in the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1920–1941. Originally the ship was the Austro-Hungarian Fiume-class...
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commonly refers to: Cydonia (Mars), a region of the planet Mars Cydonia or Kydonia, an ancient settlement at modern Chania in Greece Cydonia may also refer...
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