Where did Chania get its name from? The present name, Chania, according to the prevailing version, is attributed to the Saracen Arabs, who occupied Crete in 823. In the greater area of Kydonia there was the "Alchania comi" by the name of the god Hephaestus (Vulcanus). The easy name in this pronunciation was kept by the Arabs, confusing it with their own Al Hanim (= Hani). The Italian (from Florence) Christoforos Boudelmondi, who visited Crete in 1415, gives another version of the name, that he t

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