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Milos ( Greek: Μήλος ( f sg ) ), also Melos ( from Ancient Greek Melos Μῆλος ) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Together with Andimilos, some smaller, uninhabited islets and about 23 km south-west lying Ananes archipelago forms the Cycladic island of a town ( δήμος, Dimos ) within the region South Aegean ( Περιφέρεια Νότιου Αιγαίου ).
With an area of about 160.147 square kilometers with a population of nearly 5,000 Milos is comparatively densely populated. The main town of Plaka is located above the port town of Adamas. Other places on the island are Tripiti, Triovasalos and Pollonia. Daily from Pollonia from a ferry to the small neighboring island of Kimolos.
A special feature of Milos are the Syrmata, built right on the waterline houses whose ground floor is used as a safe Unterstellort for fishing boats in the winter. With their colorful, garage doors ', they offer a unique sight, especially when the Syrmata to small villages such as climate or Mandrakia summarized the coast line.
Milos is the location of the Venus of Milo, in Greece correctly known as Aphrodite of Milos. The original is on display in the Louvre in Paris. In Plaka (Archaeological Museum ), a copy of the public.
- 2.1 Striking volcanoes on Milos
- 2.2 thermal springs and hot gas leaks
Geography
The island almost completely encloses a sprawling bay, the harbor are the few villages. The highest point is 748 meters above the Prophet Elias in the west of the island. The rocky coast to the shallower eastern part of the island is lined with some of the beaches that stand out mainly by multicolored rocks and sands.
About 20 kilometers north-west of Milos is an uninhabited island Andimilos.
Community structure
The municipality of Milos is divided into five two municipalities and three local communities with 37 villages, settlements, and islands
Geology
The island of Milos is one of the active volcanoes of the Aegean island arc ( Methana, Santorini and Nisyros ). It is made from an old stratovolcano, which is littered with younger Lavadomen, pyroclastic cones and Tuffringen.
Even if the last volcanic eruption about 60,000 years ( Tsingrado Volcano ) ago, so there are still signs of strong magmatic activity in the underground. A magma chamber at about 6-8 km depth continues to provide strong hydrothermal activity. Thus, there are numerous places on the island hot springs (up to about 80 ° C) and fumaroles to about 98 ° C ( hot withdrawals of water vapor and sulfur gases ). The majority of the island is completely changed chemically by hot solutions. This led to the accumulation of valuable industrial minerals such as bentonite, perlite, barite, zeolite, quartz and even mineable deposits to larger gold. By raising the awareness of the local population of gold mining in the vicinity of Profiti - Ilias summit was stopped in time.
Volcanic activity also led to the most important product of the island: The melische Obsidian has been used since the late Paleolithic, as findings show, for example, from the cave of Franchthi. Since the early Neolithic ( proto- Sesklo ) he is found throughout the eastern Aegean Sea. Obsidian is an important raw material for making weapons and tools. Since the Bronze Age, it was dismantled in Milos large scale.
Conspicuous volcanoes on Milos
- Tsingrado Volcano and a bounding box from over twenty phreatic craters
- Bay of Milos ( two or three former volcanic crater )
- Profitis Ilias summit ( striking lava )
- Volcanoes in the north- east of the island, which are slowly removed from mines
Thermal springs and hot gas leaks
- Hot springs in the sea at the power plant of Adamas
- Former, meanwhile, blasted geothermal power plant at Zefyria
- Sulfur mine near Zefyria
- Thermal springs and fumaroles at Paliochori and Agia Paraskevi
- Fumaroles of Kalamos
History
As discoveries prove, Milos is since 5000 BC permanently inhabited. From the Bronze Age around the year 2500 BC originate settlement finds, which are allocated to the Keros -Syros culture. As of the end of the frühkykladischen time around the year 2000 BC was with Phylakopi one of the first urban settlements in Milos, next to the Agia Irini on Kea and later Akrotiri on Santorini to the Mycenaean period and until the collapse of civilization from 1200 BC was one of the most progressive cities in the Mediterranean. Milos was then a center of trade in ceramics and obsidian, the material for most of the tools of the time.
At the time of the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BC, the inhabitants of the mighty Milos Athens resisted and were then enslaved by the Athenians. Thucydides has described this in the Melian.
Economy and Transport
Milos is one of the few Greek islands, the more people in mining and quarrying and associated industries work as in the tourism sector. Is degraded, among other pumice, but also sulfur and rare ores such as bentonite, kaolin, Bimsotil and perlite. Near the small airport are the remains of salt pans including loading station to see (Greek Αλυκές ), who served until the 1980s, the salt production.
Despite the healthy mining industry in the lucrative tourist on Milos is becoming increasingly important. Here, the island developed primarily to the resort for higher-income Athens and northern Greece, the travel is well-connected to Milos. The proportion of foreign property owners also grows steadily and contributes to the change of image of the island at.
2008, a wind- powered seawater desalination plant was put into operation. Powered this is from a 600 kW wind turbine, the water tank has a capacity of 3,000 m³. The facility replaced the supply with the tanker.
Milos has a small airport, is launching a 36 -seat Dash-8 -100 Olympic Airlines to Athens on the twice daily. International airlines fly Milos not directly.
In addition to the air Milos is also easy to reach by boat. There are one or two ferries per day from Piraeus, travel time about 6-7 hours, including almost daily ferry Pireäus - Milos - Crete - Karpathos - Rhodes, and one to two Schnellfährverbindungen from Piraeus ( AegeanSpeedLines / Hella Dolphin ), journey time about 3 - 4 hours. In addition, several times a week ferries and fast ferries to other Cycladic islands. In winter, the road map is, however, very limited.
Island partnership
The island of Milos has since October 8, 1989, a partnership with Shodoshima Island, Japan.