Zakinthos

Zakinthos is a Greek island inside the Ionian Sea. It is the 0.33 biggest of the Ionian Islands. Zakynthos is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands place, and its most effective municipality. It covers an area of 405.55 km2 and its coastline is roughly 123 km in length. The call, like several similar names finishing in -nthos, is pre-Mycenaean or Pelasgian in foundation. In Greek mythology the island changed into said to be named after Zakynthos, the son of a legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus.

Zakynthos is a vacationer destination, with an worldwide airport served by means of constitution flights from northern Europe. The island's nickname is "the Flower of the Levant", bestowed upon it by the Venetians who were in possession of Zakynthos from 1484–1797 The ancient Greek poet Homer stated Zakynthos inside the Iliad and the Odyssey, stating that its first population had been the son of King Dardanos of Arcadia, referred to as Zakynthos, and his men. Before being renamed Zakynthos, the island became said to have been known as Hyrie.

Zakynthos become then conquered by way of King Arkesios of Kefalonia, and then by way of Odysseus from Ithaca. Zakynthos participated within the Trojan War and is indexed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships which, if accurate, describes the geopolitical state of affairs in early Greece at some time between the Late Bronze Age and the eighth century BCE. In the Odyssey, Homer mentions 20 nobles from Zakynthos among a total of 108 of Penelope's suitors.