Kassos island-My Paradise
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2012
- Song by Savvas Perselis
Kassos is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea.Kassos lies SW of Karpathos, between this island and Crete.
The Municipality of Kasos includes several uninhabited offshore islands, the largest of which are Armathia and Makronisi. Its total land area is 69.464 km². It has five villages, Fry (pronounced like free,), Agia Marina , Panagia, Poli, and Arvanitohori . Fry is the capital and home to the island's harbor, Agia Marina is most populous village. The airport is located close to Fry.
Kasos is notable for the quality of its fish, cheeses, and other culinary specialties, and its hospitality toward visitors.
HIstory
In ancient times, Kassos (then known as Amphie,Astrabe, and, most commonly, Achnis was used as a safe harbor by the Philistines.The first known settlements are Minoan and Mycenaean in origin. According to Homer, Kassos contributed ships toward the Trojan War. It has a very rich and proud history of seamanship and has been an important resource for merchant shipping and pirating. It is still regarded as an island where ship owners can locate a sea savvy crew.
During classical antiquity it closely followed the history of Karpathos. In the middle ages, as Karpathos, it was subjected from 1306 until 1537 to the Venetian Cornaro family, after which Kassos was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.
In 1824, during the Greek War of Independence, Mehmet Ali, the Pasha of Egypt, furious with the Kassiots, dispatched his naval fleet to the island. Kassos had been the first island to declare independence during the Greek Revolution and supported the cause with its fleet of ships. The Egyptian armada burned the entire island and killed most of the population.Given the scale of destruction and the fact that the whole of the island was burned, this tragedy is notable for being the first holocaust of the modern era.
The island's population recovered as did its economy, still largely based on shipping. The introduction of steam ships made Kasos' shipyard (which produced wooden sailing ships) redundant and its economy suffered accordingly. Beginning in the later half of the 19th century, many emigrated from Kasos, initially to Egypt (about 5,000 people), then to Istanbul, Greece, USA and South Africa. By the 1920s, out of about 2,300 houses on the island, only 400 were permanently inhabited.
On May 12, 1912, during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12, after the so called Battle of Cassos that took place on January 29 of 1912, the island was occupied by the sailors of the Regia Marina ship Regina Elena .With the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, Kassos joined the other islands of the Dodecanese in the Italian possession of the Isole Italiane dell'Egeo, and was ceded by Italy to Greece with the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947. The island formally joined the Greek State on 7 March 1948 together with the other Dodecanese islands. 
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Beautiful music and video! Thank you Magda mou!
Πιστεύω Τζένη μου πως όσα βιντεάκια και να φτιάξω δεν μπορώ να αποδώσω ούτε στο ελάχιστο την ομορφιά της Κάσου!!!Πρέπει να επισκεφθεί κάποιος το νησί για να θαυμάσει απο κοντά όλο αυτό το μεγαλείο της φύσης!!Να περπατήσει στα σοκάκια του νησιού,να συναναστραφεί τους υπέροχους ανθρώπους του και να συμμετάσχει σε ένα απο τα αυθόρμητα γλέντια για να καταλάβει πως αυτό που τελικά αξίζει στην ζωή μας είναι τα μικρά,απλά και όμορφα πράγματα.
Makes me so proud to be of Kasiot ancestry. I hope to visit soon.
Πολυ ωραιο Μαγδα μου!! Παραδισος οντως!
Thank you so much Gabriela mou!
Τον τίτλο του τραγουδιού τον ξέρει κανείς?
Ο τίτλος του τραγουδιού είναι : "Αυτό που λένε Κάσος "και το ερμηνεύει ο Σάββας Περσελής. Το τραγούδι βρίσκεται στο cd του Σάββα Περσελή με τίτλο: Ηλιοβασίλεμα στ' Αρμαθια.