a town and fortress of Asiatic Turkey, in Natolia. The town contains about 2000 houses, and has a manufacture of pottery. The fortress was built to defend the Strait of the Dardanelles. The outworks are of modern date; but the date of the citadel belongs to the era of the Greek emperors.

CHANANÆI, in Ancient Geography, the name of the Canaanæi ancient inhabitants of Canaan in general, descendants of Canaan, but peculiarly appropriated to some one branch; though it is uncertain which it was, or how it happened that they preferred the common gentilitious name to a more appropriate denomination as descendants of one of the sons of Canaan.