Proti Island

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Proti (Greek Πρώτη ( f sg ) ) is a small Greek island in the group of the Ionian Islands.

Location

Proti belongs to the municipality in the Regional District Trifylia Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese. At the 2001 census, four residents were counted.

The island is only 1.2 km off the coast of Marathoupolis, a district of Gargaliani located. There are no springs or wells. The island is used as a sheep pasture.

History

The island's name is derived from the sea god Proteus.

From Mycenaean or pre-classical period, there are ruins of an acropolis with walls and a castle ring.

There are about 30 inscriptions from the post-classical, Roman and Byzantine times with requests for a good journey; they come from travelers who were here with their boats protection during storms and the gods asked for a safe onward journey. There are also on the island of a small chapel dedicated to Artemis and a church that was built in honor of the Virgin Mary. In the heyday of piracy, the island served as a hiding place where pirates Katoulias.

The Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV was blinded in 1072 and not banished to this island, but on the same island in the archipelago of the Princes' Islands Konstantin Opel / Istanbul, where he died after a few days from the effects of glare.