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unusual facts about Greek island



Disappearance of Ben Needham

Ben Needham (born 29 October 1989 in Sheffield) disappeared on 24 July 1991 at the age of 21 months from the Greek island of Kos.

Mikri Vigla

Mikri Vigla (Greek: Μικρή Βίγλα, "little lookout") is a small village on the Greek island of Naxos famed for its nearby beaches.

Tristram's jird

It has also been recorded from the Greek island of Kos, although it has not been seen there for more than a decade.


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Anthony JJ Lucas

Migrating just before his younger brother Marino Lucas (Marinos Lekatsas) from their hometown of Exoghi (Exogi) on the Greek island of Ithaca in 1886, the young man quickly began to build his fortune.

Armand Marie Leroi

In January 2010 Leroi presented the BBC4 documentary Aristotle's Lagoon, filmed on the Greek island of Lesvos and suggesting that Aristotle was the world's first scientist and biologist.

Armistice of Mudros

It was signed by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey and the British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos.

Choir of Young Believers

After the breakup of his previous band, Lake Placid, in 2006, Makrigiannis moved to the Greek island of Samos and began developing his own solo material.

Damatria

Damatria is a village on Greek island of Rhodes, located on the west coast, about 20 km far from the capital.

Daniel Spoerri

He also published in 1970 a diary of his life on the Greek Island of Symi, in which he included numerous recipes of the dishes he ate.

Decree of Philippi, 242 BCE

Cos, or Kos, is located on the Greek island of the same name.

Delian Society

The society was founded on 23 January 2004 by American composer Joseph Dillon Ford and takes its name from the Greek Island of Delos, legendary birthplace of Apollo, god of music and light.

Dioptra

Called "one of the greatest engineering achievements of ancient times," it is a tunnel 1,036 meters (4,000 ft) long, "excavated through Mount Kastro on the Greek island of Samos, in the 6th century BCE" during the reign of Polycrates.

DJ Row

DJ Row aka Nikos Fousias was born on May 7, 1983 in the United States, but grew up at the Greek island of Samos.

Duško Novaković

Patrilineal ancestors from Aegean area settled in Macedonia, in Strumica, staying for some time at Greek island Thasos, then in Thessaloniki.

Francis Turville-Petre

Isherwood's stay with Turville-Petre on Agios Nikolaos has been described as 'farcical but grim', and in 1959 Isherwood wrote a lightly fictionalised version of Fronny in Down There on a Visit, where he is portrayed as Ambrose, the mad king of a small Greek island.

French battleship France

After the French occupied the neutral Greek island of Corfu in 1916 they moved forward to Corfu and Argostoli, but their activities were very limited as many of their crews were used to man anti-submarine ships.

Gan Ying

The silkworms of the Greek island of Cos were cultivated in antiquity, but the product was never comparable to Chinese silk.

Giada in Paradise

The first episode featured the Greek island of Santorini while the second episode featured the Italian island of Capri.

Greek bagpipes

Tsampouna, a double-chantered, droneless bagpipe played mostly in the Greek Island

Hegetorides

Hegetorides was a citizen of the Greek island of Thasos during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (431-404 BC), mentioned by the 2nd-century historian Polyaenus.

Helena Palaiologina, Despotitsa of Serbia

After Smederevo fell to the Ottoman Turks on 20 June 1459, Helena left Serbia and fled to the Greek island of Leukas where she converted to Catholicism.

Kanakis

Kanakis is a local supermarket chain in the Greek island of Salamina.

Kirsty McCabe

Further study at the University of Oxford saw her involved in a project to look for evidence of climate change in old volcanic soils on the Greek island of Santorini (Thera).

Lajos Détári

In January 2008, he was hired as a coach by F.C. Poros, the local team of the Greek island of Poros.

Niko Koutouvides

His mother's side of the family is from the Greek island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea.

Nikola Pašić

The Government and the army retreated to the south in the direction of Greece, but were cut off by Bulgarian forces and had to go through Albania and to the Greek island of Corfu where the Corfu Declaration was signed in 1917 preparing the ground for the future South Slav state of Yugoslavia.

Paraportiani

The Church of Panagia Paraportiani (Greek: Εκκλησία της Παναγίας της Παραπορτιανής) is situated in the neighbourhood of Kastro, in the town of Chora, on the Greek island of Mykonos.

Pastida

Pastida is a tiny village on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Patience Gray

They embarked on a journey around the Mediterranean to Provence, Carrara, Catalonia, the Greek island of Naxos, and finally southern Italy, where they settled in 1970 in Puglia, in a farmhouse named Spigolizzi.

Psyra

Psara, a Greek island in the Aegean sea, referred to by Homer as Psyra

Robert Tilney

On 5 November 1943 Tilney was appointed to command the British forces on the Greek island of Leros, replacing Major-General F.G.R. Brittorous.

Scio Township, Michigan

The first suggests it derives from the Greek island of Chios, and the second that it was named after Scio, New York, although that town was also named for Chios.

Stilos

Stylos or Stilos (Greek: Στύλος) is a village, part of the Armenoi municipal unit in the Chania regional unit of the Greek island of Crete located where natural springs rise at the foot of the White Mountains on the fertile and tree covered Stylos Valley.

Theologos, Rhodes

Theologos (also known as Tholos): is a village on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Tristram's jird

Records from the Greek island of Kos represent the only gerbils reported from Europe, outside the former Soviet Union.