travel to santorini from athens Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/travel-to-santorini-from-athens Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:28:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Travel to Santorini http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-santorini.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-santorini.html#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2017 03:24:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247764 OVERVIEW OF THE ISLAND HISTORY After the eruption of the volcano in about 1500 I3C, the island remained uninhabited for some two centuries. Traces of human life have been found, dating to the late 13th century BC. According to Herodotus, the Phoenicians were so enthralled by the beauty of Santorini that they settled there and gave it the name Calliste (which means most beautiful). There is a myth that the first colonist of the island was called Mem-bliarus, who settled there with some of the companions of Cadmus. (Cadmus was the son of the Phoenician king Agenor, and he had

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