The home as a transport hub
Population movement does not start at the port, the train…
The first postwar ‘travel and migration agency’
Georgios Plymakis was the founder of the first postwar travel…
Chandris Lines and the Crete-Oceania route
The shipping company Chandris Lines was established in 1959 by…
Santrivani
At the beginning of the century, there used to be…
The life history of Iosif Ko(n)en
The Jewish population of Chania was almost entirely eradicated during…
The life history of Revekka Politi or Flora Ventouri
Flora Ventouri was one of the few Cretan Jews who…
The family of Iosif Ventouras
Iosif Ventouras might be the only still living Jew born…
Looking for the city’s Jewish community in the everyday life of Chania
At the end of the interwar period, the Municipality of…
The metochi estates: the non-exchangeable estates
The Population Exchange Agreement also determined the fate of the…
The metochi estates: other estates
There were many housing and agricultural complexes on the perimeter…
The metochi estates: The Makrys Toichos metochi estates
The area of Makrys Toichos and Lower Makrys Toichos, west…
The metochi estates: Metochi Kefalianos
The Kefalianos estate was located in Pervolia, south of Chania.…