Halepa or Chalepa ( el, Χαλέπα) was formerly a town in northern

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

. It is now one of the districts of

Chania Chania ( el, Χανιά ; vec, La Canea), also spelled Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno and west of Heraklion. The muni ...

. Its name was once well known owing to the

Pact of Halepa The Pact of Halepa ( el, Σύμβαση της Χαλέπας) or Halepa Charter (Χάρτης της Χαλέπας) was an agreement made in 1878 between the Ottoman Empire (then ruled by the Sultan Abdul Hamid II) and the representatives of the ...

, an agreement of 1878 on the administration of Crete as part of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. The local football team is Asteras Halepa.

Emmanouil Antoniadis Emmanouil Antoniadis (1791–1863) was a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, a politician and a journalist from the island of Crete. Biography He was born in the village of Halepa, near Chania, in 1791. He acquired great education and ...

and

Konstantinos Mitsotakis Konstantinos Mitsotakis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Μητσοτάκης, ; – 29 May 2017) was a Greek politician who was 7th Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His ...

were born in Halepa.

References

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Great Greek Encyclopedia The ''Great Greek Encyclopedia'' (Greek: ''Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια'') is a general knowledge Greek-language encyclopedia, printed initially between 1926 and 1934. The encyclopedia was founded in 1926 by Pavlos ...

'', vol. 24, p. 416. {{Crete-geo-stub Chania (regional unit)