santorini points of interest Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/santorini-points-of-interest Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:28:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Santorini Guide for Tourist http://toursmaps.com/santorini-guide-for-tourist.html http://toursmaps.com/santorini-guide-for-tourist.html#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247763 THE ATLANTIS QUESTION Santorini has often been connected with Atlantis, the legendary continent that sank to the bottom of the sea while it was at its zenith. The mystery surrounding the destruction of the one and the disappearance of the other has preoccupied scientists for generations. The starting-points for the debate about Atlantis are the references to be found in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus (21E-25D) and Critias (108E-121C). According to the account given in Timaeus, when the Athenian law-giver Solon visited Egypt (c. 590 BC), he was told the story of Atlantis by a priest at Sais: the place had been

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/santorini-guide-for-tourist.html/feed 0 Traveling in Santorini http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-santorini.html http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-santorini.html#respond Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:32:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247765 In 1153, for the first time, we find mention of the island in the writings of the Arab geographer Edris under a new name, Santorini. This seems to have been given by the Crusaders, from the chapel of St Irene (Santa Irini – Santorini), which some scholars place at Perissos, others on Therasia. When Constantinople fell to the knights of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Santorini and many of the oilier islands in the Aegean passed into the hands of Marco Sanudo. He founded what was called the Duchy of Naxos (or of the Archipelago) and later ceded Santorini and

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-santorini.html/feed 0 Visit to Santorini http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-santorini.html http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-santorini.html#respond Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:40:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247766 In 1537, Khair-ed-Din Barbarossa captured Santorini in the name of the Sultan. With the ousting of the Latins, the Orthodox Bishopric of Santorini was reinstated. Nevertheless, the island continued to be governed, even if in name only, by the Crispi dynasty until 1566. After the Crispis were finally supplanted, Santorini was ceded by the Sublime Porte to Joseph Nazis, who governed it for a short time until it was subjugated by the Turks in 1579. The Turks did not settle on the island. They merely renamed it Deyit-mejik – that is, ‘little mill’ – because of the many windmills there.

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