Ialysos

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The Municipality of Ialyssos (Greek Ιαλυσός ( m. sg. ) ) Is named after the ancient town of Ialyssos. By area, Ialyssos is the smallest municipality of the Greek island and municipality of Rhodes. The administrative headquarters, now called Trianda, after the city of Rhodes, the second largest city on the island.

Location

Ialyssos is situated on the coast to the Strait of Rhodes in the northeast of the island, west of the Cape Zonari. Neighboring districts, the city of Rhodes in the east, in the southeast and Kallithea Petaloudes the southwest and west.

Mythology

According to legend, the three cities of Lindos, Ialyssos and Kameiros of three brothers each of the same name have been established, which are said to have acted to descendants of the oldest in the Heliopolites, which in turn were descended from Helios and his wife, the nymph Rhode.

Rhodes took nine ships under the command of the war against Troy Tlepolemus part where Homer mentions the three Rhodian cities, Lindos, Ialyssos and Kameiros. This is mentioned among other things, in the Catalogue of Ships of Homer.

History

Minoan finds evidence that Rhodes was settled from the early 2nd millennium BC by the Cretans. The minosche settlement of Ialyssos scored in the 16th century BC to the largest cities of the Aegean. From about 1450 BC Mycenaean Greeks from the mainland took over the power not only in Crete, but also gradually in Cretan possessions, including at Rhodes. The Minoan settlement existed according to the current state of research well into the 14th century (period LM III A2) into it, to the end, the finds are in any case strongly influenced Minoan. But even after Ialyssos probably had an outstanding importance. Mario Benzi is of the opinion that - in addition to Miletus on the western coast of Asia Minor - was the most important Mycenaean outpost in eastern Ägaisraum. Excavations revealed, among other things, the largest and richest known so far Mycenaean necropolis of the Aegean world to day. This has already been used by the inhabitants of the Minoan city. The other hand, so far only few remains were discovered by the associated Mycenaean settlement; probably have been destroyed by erosion or later overbuilding large parts.

The renewed rise of the island began in the 11th century BC, after the Dorians settled on Rhodes. They founded the three cities Ialyssos Ialyssos and Lindos, who ruled as independent poleis of Rhodes until they joined forces to 408 BC to found on the northern tip of the island of Rhodes Town. The importance of the three cities was not least underscored by the fact that they are in the Hexapolis the Doric Sixteenth Städtebund together with Kos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus, the latter two located on the mainland of Asia Minor were.