Rhodes - Discover the Unknown Rhodes

Chronology
5th millennium B.C. Late Neolithic Age, first cave settlements
3rd millennium B.C. First contacts with the Minoans of Crete
2nd millennium B.C. Arrival of the Achaian-Mycenaeans
1000 - 500 B.C. Dorian and Archaic periods; creation
of the three city-states
Lindos, Kamiros and Ialysos; dictatorship
of Kleoboulos
5th - 4th century B.C. Classical period; maritime trade
flourishes; foundation of Rhodes in 408 B.C.
4th - 3rd century B.C. Hellenistic period; apex of the islands artistic
splendour; Rhodes boasts a population
of 80,000
2nd century B.C. 3rd century A.D.
Roman period; St Paul arrives on the island;
initial diffusion of Christianity
4th century A.D.-1309
Byzantine period; conflicts with Persians
and Saracens; Venetian and Genoese trading
posts
1309-1522 Rule of the Knights of the Order of St John
of Jerusalem; Rhodes becomes the principal
centre of commerce between East and West
1523-1912 Ottoman rule; Greeks, Turks and Jews live
on the island; from the seventeenth to the
nineteenth century conflicts with the
Turkish authorities
1911-1923 Italian-Turkish war on the island; the Italians
occupy Rhodes
1923-1943 The island is governed by the Italians;
restoration of many monuments and
important construction projects undertaken
1943-1946 The Germans occupy the island; deportation
of Jews and Greek dissidents to the
concentration camps; in 1945 the Germans
surrender to the British army
1947 Rhodes is annexed to Greece
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