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Chania, Hania the chief port of Crete, on the NW coast. Pop.: 82 000 (2005 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At Christmas, his father and mother, Nabeel and Hania, always give money to charities. The Munayyer collection was recently augmented by two generous donations: the late Hala Maksoud's collection of Arab costumes, donated by her sister Hania and brother Ousama Salam; and a unique set of antique dolls dressed in Arab costumes made in the late 1940s by Palestinian refugees at UNRWA camps in Lebanon, donated by Ambassador William Stoltzfus. In the just-released October AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, project director Elpida Hadjidaki of the Archaeological Museum of West Crete in Hania suggests the harbor, an excavated basin connected to the sea by a now-dry channel, "was one of the famous Cretan pirate nests, possibly one of those destroyed by Romans in the mid-first century B. |
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