Alonnisos

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Alonissos (Greek Αλόννησος ( f sg ) ) is a Greek island in the Northern Sporades. Together with the surrounding uninhabited islands Alonissos is a municipality located in the Greek region of Thessaly.

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Location

Alonissos is about 4 km east of Skopelos. With a length of 20 km and a width of about 4.5 km, the area of ​​the island is 64.118 km ². This Alonissos is the third largest island of the Northern Sporades. The highest elevation on Alonissos is with 475 m of Kouvouli, in the municipality it is exceeded by the peak of the island Yioura with 570 m.

History

Bone findings in Kokkinokastro of prehistoric animals and humans, as well as tools have been dated to the period around 100,000 BC. Probably was connected at that time Alonissos via a land bridge with the western neighbor islands and Thessaly. Neolithic tools were discovered in the interior of the island in Kastraki. Further evidence of the Neolithic were also detected on today uninhabited islands like Kyra Panagia.

The Greece rather rare testimonies from the Mesolithic have been found on the island Yioura for the first time on an Aegean island.

In the 16th century BC, the island was called Ikos ( Ίκος ) and was Cretan colony. The Cretans brought the cultivation of olives and wine on the island. Between the 14th and 13th century BC Mycenaean colony, the island was.

After the Athenian fleet at under the command of generals Kimon piracy successfully fought were Ikos and the other islands of the North Sporades the Delian League 476 BC. The Greek geographer Skylax reported in the 5th century BC by the two cities Kokkinokastro and the old place Alonissos. Ikos was famous for wine production. Workshops for the production of amphorae could be detected at different locations of the island. The handles of amphorae were provided ( product of Ikos ) with the inscription Ikion. Therefore, the wine trade could be detected to the north coast of the Black Sea and to Alexandria.

The island was conquered in 190 BC by the Roman fleet.

With the capture of Constantinople in connection with the Fourth Crusade in March 1204. AD Ikos came into the sphere of influence of the newly established Latin Empire. After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453 Opel AD the Venetian island colony were. The Ottoman fleet under the corsair captain and Chaireddin Barbarossa conquered in 1538 AD the island.

Its present name was given the island of Alonissos only 1831st In the 16th century AD it was called Liadromia and later Chiliodromia.

20th century

Alonissos was shattered on 9 March 1965 by an earthquake with the magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale: the earthquake cost two lives, 85 % of the houses were destroyed. The houses in the main village of the same name, also known as Chora were badly damaged. Only the thick walls of the fortress-like houses landscaped village remained largely are, most roofs collapsed but one. Many residents did not build their houses again, but moved into the harbor Patitiri who has since developed into the administrative and commercial center of the island. Impressed with the location of the destroyed village at about 250 m altitude, foreigners bought the ruins and created from small cottages.

Community Alonissos

According to the 2001 census, the municipality has 2700 inhabitants, distributed among the following villages and settlements. The inhabited islands are according to the census, now no longer permanently inhabited.

  • Patitiri ( Πατητήρι (n. sg. ) ), 1,697 inhabitants
  • Agios Petros ( Άγιος Πέτρος ( m. sg. ) ), 7 residents
  • Alonissos ( Αλόννησος ( f sg ) ), 173 inhabitants
  • Votsi ( Βότση ( f sg ) ), 500 inhabitants
  • Gerakas ( Γέρακας ( m. sg. ) ), 24 residents
  • Isiomata ( Ισιώματα (n. pl. ) ), 19 residents
  • Kalamakia ( Καλαμάκια (n. pl. ) ), 45 residents
  • Marpounda ( Μαρπούντα (n. pl. ) ), Uninhabited
  • Mourtero ( Μουρτερό (n. sg. ) ), 65 residents
  • Steni Vala ( Στενή Βάλα ( f sg ) ), 107 inhabitants
  • Chrissi Milia ( Χρυσή Μηλιά ( f sg ) ), 35 residents

The individual islands

Demographics

Nature

The bottom of the mountainous island consists mostly of limestone. On it grow pines, olives, figs, almonds and vines. Live seals and wild birds to the wild beaches.

The beaches consist mainly of coarse gravel and are usually just walk to reach a moped or a boat. The ecosystem of the sea on the north side of the island is located in a very good condition. Presumably this is why the rarest mammal in Europe, the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus Monachus ), native. To protect them and other animals, 1992, the National Marine Park of Alonissos was opened.

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On Alonissos is a school for homeopathy.

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