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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/07/2026 20:13:00

Standing at the crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet, Rhodes has been coveted, conquered, and colonised by every significant power of the ancient and medieval world — Minoans, Dorians, Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines, Arab raiders, Knights of St John, Ottomans, Italians, and finally Greeks — and each occupation has left its mark on an island whose history reads like a compressed account of Western civilisation itself. The result is a layered cultu...