Dokos
Doko (Greek Δοκός ( f sg ) ) is a today uninhabited Greek island of Hydra in the Regional District of islands of the Attica region.
The island is named after a shipping family from the island of Hydra, in whose possession dokos the end of the 18th century came AD. From Pausanias it was mentioned as Aperopia ( Απεροπία ).
Location
Dokos lies south of the Argolis peninsula, which is the easternmost part of the Peloponnese, and together with Hydra the southern end of the Bay of Ermioni ( Κόλπος της Ερμιόνης ). The distance to the westerly Cape Mouzaki ( Ακρωτήρι Μουζάκι ) on the Argolis peninsula is about a kilometer. The shortest distance to the island of Hydra, which lies to the east, is 2.8 km. In between lies the uninhabited island Petasi ( Πέτασι ).
The maximum extension is from West to East 7 km, 2.8 km from north to south, the narrowest point reached east of the island about 1100 m. The Skindos Bay ( Κόλπος του Σκίντου ) were made from different eras archaeological finds in their environment lies in the northeast.
History
Gave the results of archaeological investigations that colonization of dokos already took place in the Neolithic in the 4th millennium BC.
The Bronze Age settlements Myti Kommeni ( Μύτη Κομμένη ) and Ledeza ( Λέδεζα ) in the northeast near the Skindos Bay were in the phase II of the FH Frühhelladikums dated, which was (about 1300-1200 BC) inhabited a to the Mycenaean period.
Furthermore, were relics of the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods are detected. In the 7th century AD during the Byzantine period a fortress was built, which was later expanded in 1670 by the Venetians under Francesco Morosini on.
During the Greek Revolution, the Bay served in the north of the fleet of Hydra as an anchorage.
Archaeological finds
The Bronze Age settlements Myti Kommeni ( Μύτη Κομμένη ) and Ledeza ( Λέδεζα ) in the northeast near the Skindos Bay were in the phase II of the FH Frühhelladikums dated, which was (about 1300-1200 BC) inhabited a to the Mycenaean period.
In the bay, the archaeologist Peter Throckmorton discovered a boatload at a depth of 20 m in 1975, which was due to the ceramic finds dated to the period 2400-2200 BC. Although the ship itself only two stone anchors were recovered, it is often, sometimes referred to as the oldest shipwreck of the Aegean Sea and around the world.
Two preliminary salvage campaigns in 1975 and 1977 and the first systematic investigation of a shipwreck in Greece from 1988 to 1992 by the Hellenic Institute for Underwater Archaeology ( Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology, Ινστιτούτο Εναλίων Αρχαιολογικών Ερευνών ) provided more than 10,000 ceramic objects. The largest closed ceramic finds from the Frühhelladikum is particularly important because of the large number and variety.
Because of findings such as grinding stones of andesite probably from the island of Aegina, most of which no traces had, obsidian blocks and blades of the Cycladic island of Milos, parts of a Cycladic frying pan as well as numerous artifacts can dokos together with the adjacent islands as a link of maritime trade in Frühhelladikum be considered between the Aegean islands and the places Lerna and Tiryns on the Gulf of Argolis.
Dokos today
Although the 2001 census, still 47 inhabitants is indicative of the island no longer permanently inhabited today. Dokos serves seasonal grazing land for sheep and goats. The waters around the island are rich in fish, in addition is operated in a small cove in the extreme northeast aquaculture. In summer the bays serve as anchorage for yachts and swimming trips.
In 2007, it was announced that a Cypriot company plans dokos to buy a hotel, bungalows, to build a marina and other facilities.