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• Alonnisos or Alonissos island in Sporades.

  
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  In the Middle Ages and until the 19th century, the island was known as Liadromia (Λιαδρόμια). It was renamed in 1838, as it was – mistakenly according to later research – identified with Alonnisos of Antiquity. In reality, the present island of Alonissos was known as Ikos (Ίκος) to the ...
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• The Gallery: Picture Postcard

  
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  Woo hoo!!  Its week 100 of Taras wonderful Gallery, and this weeks theme is Picture Postcard. My postcard was taken on the beautiful Greek island of Santorini on my birthday, 16th August, four years ago. Santorini is probably the most-photographed Greek island, especially the architecture of Thira and Oia, ...
  4 days ago

• Amorgos island in Dodecanese

  
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  Amorgos is also known as Yperia, Patagy, or Platagy, Pagali, Psichia and Karkisia. Part of the island is named Aspis, where the ancient temple of the goddess Aphrodite stood. Due to the name Minoa we suspect that Amorgos had been colonised by the Cretans from ancient times, but there ...
  6 days ago

• Anafi island in Cyclades.

  
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  According to mythology , the island was given the name Anafi because it emerged from the depths of the sea to give refuge to the Argonauts from a bad storm. Others say that the name is due to the non-existence of snakes on the island: " An Ofis " (without snakes). In spite of its small geographical size, ...
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• Lemnos ,the sacred island.

  
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  Lemnos is mostly flat (hence its more than 30 sand beaches ), but the west, and especially the northwest part, is rough and mountainous (highest elevation: Mount Vigla, 470 m). The chief towns are Myrina, on the western coast, and Moudros on the eastern shore of a large bay in the middle of the island. Myrina ...
  1 week ago

• Chios island, birthplace of Homer.

  
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  Chios island is approximately crescent or kidney shaped, 50 kilometres (31 mi) long from north to south, 29 kilometres (18 mi) at its widest, and covers an area of 842 square kilometres (325 sq mi). The terrain is principally mountainous and arid, with a ridge of mountains running through the spine of the ...
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