| Skyros Σκύρος |
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 Hora |
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| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Island Chain: | Sporades |
| Total Isles: | 21 |
| Area:[1] | 209 km² (81 sq.mi.) |
| Highest Mountain: | Mt. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The (Northern Sporades (Βόρειες Σποράδες are an Archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Olympus (792 m (2,598 ft)) |
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 Greece |
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| Periphery: | Central Greece |
| Prefecture: | Euboea |
| Capital: | Skyros (city) |
| Statistics | |
| Population: | 2,602 (as of 2001) |
| Density: | 12 /km² (32 /sq. Continental Greece ( Στερεά Ελλάδα - Stereá Elláda, earlier Χέρσος Ελλάς) or Central Greece ( Κεντρική Ελλάδα For the mythological figure see Euboea (mythology Euboea ( Modern Greek, Εύβοια - Évia &mdash mi. ) |
| Postal Code: | 340 07 |
| Area Code: | 22x0 |
| License Code: | ΧΑ |
Skyros (Greek: Σκύρος) is the southernmost island of the Sporades, a Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly An island (ˈaɪlənd or isle (/ˈaɪl/ is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions above high tide and isolated from other significant The (Northern Sporades (Βόρειες Σποράδες are an Archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Etymology In ancient times there were various explanations for the name Aegean. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the island was known as The Island of the Magnetes where the Magnetes used to live and later Pelasgia and Dolopia and later Skyros. The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. At 209 km² it is the largest of the Sporades, and has a population of about 3,000 (in 2003). To help compare different Orders of magnitude and geographical regions we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km² Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Skyros is one of the municipalities that are not part of any provinces in Greece.
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Geography
The north of the island is covered by forest, and includes the island's highest point, Mount Olympus (792 metres), while the south, dominated by the mountain of Kochila, is bare and rocky. Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος also transliterated as Ólympos, and on Greek maps Óros Ólimbos) is the highest Mountain in Greece The island's capital is also called Skyros (or, locally, Chora). The main port, on the west coast, is Linaria. The island has a castle (the kastro) that dates from the Venetian occupation (13th to 15th centuries), a Byzantine monastery (the Monastery of Saint George), the grave of English poet Rupert Brooke at Tris Boukes harbour, and the Bronze Age archaeological site of Palamari. A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. The Monastery of Saint George of Skyros (Ai Giorgis Skirianos is a Byzantine Monastery on the Greek island of Skyros. Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer) was an English Poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced Metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use included techniques for History Until the 1960s any houses and buildings were stone-built the village was connected with pavement in the 1980s There are many beaches on the coast. The island has its own breed of Skyrian ponies. The Skyros Pony ( Greek αλογάκι της Σκύρου) is a breed of Skyros can be reached by ferry from Kimi on Euboea. For the mythological figure see Euboea (mythology Euboea ( Modern Greek, Εύβοια - Évia &mdash
History
According to Greek mythology, Theseus died on Skyros. Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance For other uses see Theseus (disambiguation Theseus (Θησεύς was a Legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, was from Skyros (or Scyros, as its name is sometimes transliterated), as told in the play by Sophocles, Philoctetes (line 239). In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus (also Neoptólemos or Pyrrhus; Greek Νεοπτόλημος "New War" was the son of the warrior Achilles "Achilleus" redirects here For the emperor with this name see Achilleus (emperor. Sophocles (ˈsɒfəkliːz Ancient Greek, sopʰoklɛ̂ːs circa In Greek mythology, Philoctetes (also Philoktêtês or Philocthetes, Φιλοκτήτης was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea
In 475 BC, Cimon defeated the Dolopians and conquered the entire island. Events By place Greece Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the Cimon (in Greek, Κίμων &mdash Kimōn) (510 Athens - 450 BC Citium, Cyprus) was an Athenian The population was enslaved and replaced by colonists from Athens. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's [2] From that date, it became a part of the Delian League, later to become the Athenian Empire. The Delian League was an association of approximately 150 5th-century BC Greek City-states under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue Cimon claimed to have found the remains of Theseus, and returned them to Athens.
In 340 BC the Macedonians took over the island and dominated it until 192 BC, when the king Philip and the Roman Republican forces restored it to Athens. Events By place Persian Empire Rhodes falls to Persian forces Macedon or Macedonia ( Greek grc Μακεδονία grc-Latn Makedonía) was the name of a kingdom centered in the northern-most Events By place Greece The Achaeans respond to Sparta 's renewed interest in recovering lost territory by sending an envoy to Philip V ( Greek Φίλιππος Ε΄) (238 BC - 179 BC was King of Macedon from 221 BC to 179 BC The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the
Historical Population
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| Year | Population | %Change | |||||||||||
| 1981 | 2,757 | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | 1,806 | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | 2,602 | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | 3,000 | ||||||||||||
References
- ^ Basic Characteristics. A grave is a place where a dead body (usually a human although sometimes an animal is buried A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer) was an English Poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World Ministry of the Interior. www. ypes. gr. Retrieved on 2007-08-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.
- ^ Thucydides i. 98
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