A colourful street

Santorini Fira

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October 6th 2014
06 October 2014 Until about 1600BC Santorini was a circular island with a volcano in the middle and it was called Stongini (Round One). Then there was a colossal eruption and the centre sank leaving a caldera with towering cliffs surrounding it on the archipelago of islands which were left. It could be that the resultant ash cloud was the reason for the demise of the Minoan civilisation ... read more

Europe » Greece

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more