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Rhodes
island in Aegean sea, Greece / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rhodes is a Greek island, belonging to the Dodecanese island group. In Greek it is called Rhodos.
The largest cities are Rhodes City in the north and Lindos in the south-east. About 125,000 people live on Rhodes.[1] It has an international airport in Paradisi in the north, near to Rhodes (city).
First settlement were on Rhodes at the 16th century before Christ. Rhodes was an important Fort for the Knights of St. John in their war against the Turkish invasion. In 1644 the Turkish occupied Rhodes.
1912 Italy won the Dodecanese from Turkey, 1943 Germany took them over, 1945 the British. Since 1946 the islands have belonged to Greece.
Rhodes lives mostly on tourism industry now.