Candia

Candia is the name of the former capital of the island of Crete (q.v.), and was long the only name by which the island was known in Western Europe. The city, standing on the north coast, north of Mount Ida, was the only town in Crete where Turks were numerous. During the occupation by the Powers, it was here, in September 1898, that the Moslem rising took place, in which a hundred British soldiers were killed and wounded, and which precipitated the definitive removal of all the Turkish garrisons. Pop. 12,000.