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Rhodes, Greece 29 July - 05 August 98 Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands and the fourth largest is land In Greece. The city of Rhodes combines the cosmopolitan charac tcr of a contemporary city with the quaintness of a medieval town un- touched by the passage of time, the juxtaposition of monuments and ruins dat- ing from antiquity, the Byzantine period, the European Middle Ages, and the centuries of Turkish rule, combined with the beautiful scenery, a mild climate and a well developed infrastructure of hotels and other facilities have truly made Rhodes, the Island of the Sun About 14()0 B.C. Mycenaean Greeks settled on the island and about 1 1(X) B.C. they were followed by Dorians. In 408 B.C., a unified .state was estab- lished on the island with the town of Rhodes as its capital. Successfully with- .standing an attack by Macedonia in 305 B. C, the Rhodians erected a 98 foot high statue called the Colossus of Rhodes. It was the shortest-lived of the Seven Wonders of the World and collapsed in an earthquake in 227 B.C. A new era began in Rhodes in 1309, when the order of St. John established itself on the island after the loss of the Holy Land. In 1522, the Knights were compelled to surrender to the Turks, and the 1 80-surviving Knights moved from Rhodes to Malta. After two hundred years of European rule the island fell under Turkish control for 390 years. In 1912 the Italians captured Rhodes and occupied the island until 1947. Rhodes became a part of Greece in 1948. The bronze statues of a stag and a doe sit on top of pillars at the entrance of Mandraki harbor. According to legend, the Colossus of Rhodes stood at the same site with a leg on each side of the harbor entrance. The male and female deer are symbolic of Rhodes. The Marine Gate entrance to old town Rhodes which was built by the Knights of Saint John. A beautiful flowering bush next to one of the entrances to old town Rhodes.
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USS AiiMin There are actually three sets of stairs in this picture The most recently built steps are being used by Austin sailors to reach the entrance to the Acropolis of Lindos. The second set, in rums, are to the immediate left, and the third set, which were built by the knights, are located in the upper left hand corner of the pic- ture against the fortress wall.
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