| Makronisos | |
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| Main information | |
| Currency | euro |
| Surface | 20 |
| Population | 5 |
| Tongue | Greek |
| religion | Greek Catholicism |
Kiea – Greek an island in the Aegean Sea located near the coast Atticsopposite the city and the port Lawrio. In ancient times, the island was called Helene. Makronisos is the westernmost island of the Cyclades archipelago. Currently, the island remains uninhabited. There are a few more Greek islands and islets with this name.
It lies in the decentralized administration of the Aegean Islands in the region South Aegean Islands, at the Kiea-Kitnos Regional Unit, in the Commune of Kiea.
Characteristic
Geography
- Location: 37 ° 42′N 24 ° 7′E
- Area: 20 km²
- The highest point of the island: 281 m above sea level
Climate
Spring and late fall are the best seasons to see the island. Summers can be very hot and dry during heat waves, but this is rarely the case. Winter is definitely the low season with occasional rainy days.
History
- Traces of settlement date back to 4,000. years BC
- In the Middle Ages, especially in the 12th century, it was eagerly used by pirates.
- During the Balkan Wars, there were camps for Turkish prisoners of war here.
- In 1916, the British hospital ship HMHS Britannic, the twin ship RMS Titanic, sank in the strait between Makronisos and the neighboring island of Keos.
- From 1923, Greek refugees from Asia Minor were quarantined here. Due to the scarcity of resources, and as in other camps of that period, a significant part of the refugees died here as a result of early exhaustion and disease.
- In the periods 1947-1950 and 1967-74 there were prisons and concentration camps for political prisoners. The island as a place of exile and execution.
From May 1947, the first camp operated here, initially for internees, and then a concentration camp. Due to the civil war, 1,100 officers and 27,000 people were imprisoned here. lower military ranks - combatants of the ELAS resistance movement, DSE partisans and also soldiers of the royal army suspected of disloyalty to the monarchy. Apart from them, 30 thousand people were imprisoned. people, including women and children.
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