Candara (Paphlagonia)

Candara or Kandara (Κάνδαρα) was a town of ancient Paphlagonia, inhabited from Achaemenid through Roman times. Stephanus of Byzantium writes that it was "in Paphlagonia, three schoeni from Gangra, and a village Thariba" and that a temple of Hera Candarene was there.

Its site is tentatively located near Candere, Asiatic Turkey.