Gulf of Chania

The Gulf of Chania is an embayment of the Sea of Crete in the northwestern region of the island of Crete in present-day Greece.

One headland forming the Gulf of Chania is the promontory known as the Akrotiri Peninsula.

[1] In prehistory the powerful city of Kydonia commanded the Gulf of Chania and was a center of early Cretan art and culture in western Crete.

[2] By 74 BC the city-state of Kydonia fended off an attack by Rome in a naval battle in the Gulf of Chania.

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