Mikonos

Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of 85.5 rectangular kilometres and rises to an elevation of 341 metres 1,119 ft at its highest factor. There are 10,134 population 2011 census, most of whom stay in the largest metropolis, Mykonos, which lies on the west coast. The metropolis is likewise known as Chora. The Town in Greek, following the not unusual practice in Greece when the call of the island itself is the same as the name of the predominant metropolis.

Mykonos got here underneath the manage of the Romans all through the reign of the Roman Empire and then became a part of the Byzantine Empire until the twelfth century. In 1204, with the fall of Constantinople inside the Fourth Crusade, Mykonos turned into occupied by using Andrea Ghisi, a relative of the Doge of Venice. The island became ravaged by means of the Catalans on the cease of the thirteenth century and ultimately given over to direct Venetian rule in 1390.

In 1537, while the Venetians nonetheless reigned, Mykonos become attacked by means of Hayreddin Barbarossa, the admiral of Suleiman the Magnificent, and an Ottoman fleet installed itself at the island. The Ottomans, beneath the leadership of Kapudan Pasha, imposed a device of self-governance comprising a governor and an appointed council of syndics. When the castle of Tinos fell to the Ottomans in 1718, the ultimate of the Venetians withdrew from the vicinity.