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Folegandros

Greek island in the Aegean Sea

Field	Value
name	Folegandros
name_local	Φολέγανδρος
type	municipality
image_map	2011 Dimos Folegandrou.png
image_skyline	{{Photomontage	position=center
photo1a	Chora, Folegandros, Greece.jpg
photo2a	Kastro, Folegandros, Greece.jpg
photo2b	Cliff, Folegandros, Greece.jpg
photo3a	Karavostasis, Folegandros, Greece.jpg
photo3b	Paralia Livadaki Beach, Folegandros, Greece.jpg
photo4a	Chora at Night, Folegandros, Greece.jpg
size	270
spacing	2
border	0
caption_skyline	Cliffs at Chora on Folegandros
coordinates
elevation_min	0
elevation_max	455
periph	South Aegean
periphunit	Thira
pop_municipality	719
area_municipality	32.216
pop_community	455
population_as_of	2021
postal_code	840 xx
area_code	22860
licence	EM
website	www.folegandros.gr

Folegandros (also Pholegandros; ) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea that, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades. Its surface area is 32.216 km2 and it had 719 inhabitants as of 2021.

Folegrandos has three small villages, Chora, Karavostasis, and Ano Meria, which are connected by a paved road. It is part of the Thira regional unit.

Mythology

According to Greek mythology, it was said to have derived its name from a son of Minos.

History

Little is known about the ancient history of Folegandros. Its inhabitants were Dorians. Later it came under Athenian rule. The island contained a polis (city-state) called Pholegandros, which was sited at the modern Chora and a member of the Delian League, as which it appears on Athenian tribute lists between 425/4 and 416/15 BCE. The island was called the iron Pholegandros by Aratus on account of its ruggedness, and is also noted by ancient geographers Strabo and Ptolemy, who calls it Pholekandros ().

The island was conquered in 1207 by the Venetian Marco Sanudo and remained under the rule of Venice until 1566, when it was taken by the Ottoman Turks.

The Greeks reclaimed it in the 19th century during the Greek war of independence. The island was visited by the British explorers Theodore and Mabel Bent in early 1884.

During the 20th century it has been used as a place of exile for political prisoners, especially during the 4th of August regime.

Geography

Folegandros' landscape is varied, and includes tall cliffs and a large cave. The "capital" of the island, Chora, is built on the edge of a 200-metre high cliff. The port of Folegandros is the small village of Karavostasis. The Ano Meria village contains a small but interesting Ecological and Folklore Museum. Among the notable beaches on Folegandros is Katergo, accessible only by foot or by boat from Karavostasis. Katergo beach is used by naturists.

Gallery

File:Apopsi Choras Folegandrou.JPG|View of Chora File:Folegandros-7.jpg|Chora seen from the church of Panagia File:Folegandros-5.jpg|House of the island File:Folegandros-kastro.jpg|Inside the "Kastro" of Chora File:Church, Chora of Folegandros, 15M6539.jpg|Chora File:Φολέγανδρος.jpg|Chora & the church o Panagia to the north File:Ano Meria on Folegandros, 15M6607.jpg|Ano Meria

References

Attribution

References

"Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)". National Statistical Service of Greece.
"ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text". [[Government Gazette (Greece).
{{Cite Stephanus. Φολέγανδρος
Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen. (2004). "An inventory of archaic and classical poleis". [[Oxford University Press]].
{{Cite Strabo. x. p. 484 ''et seq.''
{{Cite Ptolemy. 3.15.31
Bent, Theodore. (1885). "The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks".
"Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor".
Sinanidis, Mary. (11 July 2014). "Your bare-all guide to nudist beaches in Greece". themanews.com.

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