Since the ancient times, 1st of May is a day of celebration, joy, a day of the Spring. The ancient Greeks welcomed the Spring with flowers and in the passage of the centuries every area celebrated this day in its own special way.
Περισσότερα »The Knight who killed the dragon!
During the Middle Ages and more specifically around 1332, there was the legend and the fear of a great dragon inRhodes. It lived in today’s hill of Monte Smith which was then called “Mal Paso” and it means bad passage.
Περισσότερα »Bloody Easter – Rhodes 1919
The style of a day that rose in this place 90 years ago. The ether of the adiquated moment that hovered and was lost like a Christ angel. The voice of an unforgetable woman with such a prudency and labor. The shadow of an unconquered dressed in black… that fresh …
Περισσότερα »7th of March 1948-“welcome freedom”
The 7th of March is the landmark not only for the history of Dodekanissa, but also for all Greece, it is the last outstanding case for the foundation of the Greek country as it is today.
Περισσότερα »Folk couples for Tharri
My God give me enlightenment and wisdom to correctly say this story. The story that I will say has beauty and charm, listen and learn how Tharri was built. Once upon a time it was a king and princess that used to love her and wanted to give her everything.
Περισσότερα »The knights of Rhodes
In 1309 captured Rhodes was known by a lot of names. Their formal title was “Knights of battalion of the Hospital of Saint John or Ioannites Knights or Knights of Malta, even knights of Rhodes.
Περισσότερα »The facts of English occupation (1945-1947)
When the Germans left Greece in 1944, it did not happen the same with Dodekanisa, because in the sea the allies predominated and the departure of Germans was difficult. Sometime later the German army that was in Rhodes was obliged to surrender and the delivery was made the treaty that …
Περισσότερα »Lullabies
My kid is sleeping on the pillow and moves his sleeve. My little kid is sleeping in the three pillows on Madonna’s knees and in the hug of Jesus.
Περισσότερα »The most important facts of Rhodes before Christ
The island of Rhodes inhabited by people since 10000 before Christ. So, the following are referred to in a summary the most important persons and facts before the birth of Jesus Christ:
Περισσότερα »Rhodian Traditional Couplets of Sorrow
Be strong my heart, and strong as the anvil and as the lemon tree holds the lemon. The sigh you say sometimes, I say it twice, that I have a pain in my heart and don’t show it.
Περισσότερα »Rhodian Traditional Couples of Foreign Lands
The foreign in the foreign lands come back as a bird and as a basil flowers but doesn’t smell truth. Strange in the foreign land and he opened his grave and alive to heritage hell.
Περισσότερα »Rhodian Traditional Couplets of Love
It is impossible to light the candle without dropping nothing and love cannot be founded with no sighing. Whoever loved in young age, he has to take into account that love has troubles.
Περισσότερα »The Italian conqueror in Rhodes – summary
The people of Rhodes were hurt by the Turkish slave, hoped to be free even after four centuries. Neither then were they able to throw away the conquerors because some months ago before Greece has been free from Balkans war of 1912 the islands of Dodekanisso were captured by Italians. …
Περισσότερα »Althemenis
Althemenis was the son of Katreas, who was son of Minos and succeeded him to the kingship of Crete. Katreas had received a prophecy that we would be killed by the hand of one of his children. He had four children: one son, Althemenis and three daughters, Aeropi, Klimeni and …
Περισσότερα »The battalion of Knights in Rhodes
As it was said there were a lot of races that was installed in Rhodes, so the Ioannitis Knights arrived in the island from Cyprus, looking for a new shelter for their battalion. For the conquerer of Rhodes Magistros Fuk de Villare and Vin Vinioi cooperated in asking money aid …
Περισσότερα »The Colossus of Rhodes
According to mythology, the Rhodians always worshiped the God Sun, who stood by them as their protector.
Περισσότερα »Telchines – Poseidon
The Telchines was the first tribe which inhabited Rhodes, coming from Crete andCyprus. They were strange people, wild, resembled to demons and used every kind of magic. They were nine in number and it was said that they were sons of the sea. The Telchines were good craftsmen and sailors. …
Περισσότερα »The island of the God Sun
According to mythology, when Zeus decided to split the Earth to the Olympian Gods, the God Sun was absent to one of the usual trips that he did to give light to the Earth. So, the rest of the Olympian Gods forgot to include him in the split. When he …
Περισσότερα »Rhodes, colony of Doriis.
As the integral piece of Doric Exapolis, a commercial and marine action with new colonies for Rhodes was developed. As the years went by the Dorik community of Rhodes were developed economically and spiritually, so it was created as an independent country and participated in the colonial movement of Greeks.
Περισσότερα »Rhodes in prehistory
The beginning of the track record period has been in existence since 600.000 years before Christ. Since then during the period of stone, Rhodes decorated the Aegean Sea.
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