Petalii
The Petalii ( Greek Πεταλιοί ( m. Pl. ), Also Petali, Petali archipelago , Latin Petaliae ) are an archipelago of ten small islands off the western coast of Evia , around 17 km from the east coast of Attica .
The islands belong to the area of the municipality of Karystos and are located in the Gulf of Petalii (Gr. Kolpos Petalion Κόλπος Πεταλιών), a tributary of the Aegean Sea . The three larger islands are partly forested and agriculturally built, while the smaller islands are rocks with at best sparse vegetation. The coasts of the rocky islands are strongly indented and offer few natural mooring possibilities for boats.
In addition to the Latin mention by Pliny , the islands are mentioned on an inscription from the 6th century BC. BC from Eretria , according to which seafarers who moved beyond the archipelago should be entitled to a publicly payable wage, which indicates that the islands marked the border of the 'native' sea territory perceived as belonging to Eretria.
At the time of the Ottoman Empire , Chersonisi served the Paşa of Karystos as a residence for his harem ; after Greek independence, the islands were owned by the Russian tsarist family. With the dowry of the Russian Grand Duchess Olga , they came into his possession when she married the Greek King George I and served the royal family as a summer residence after 1867. Georg had a villa built on Chersonisi and wine and olives planted on the islands. The population at that time consisted of a few fishing families. Megalonisos is the seventieth largest Greek island with a good 17 km². It is said to have been named Rosa after Queen Olga, who was of Russian descent . Two small bays with sandy beaches are named Megali Rosa (Μεγάλη Ρώσα) and Mikri Rosa (Μικρή Ρώσα). On Megalonisos a settlement called Petali was officially registered in 1912 , which was renamed Meglonisos Petalion in 1940 . It was managed in 1951 with a population of 65, which steadily decreased in the coming decades, in 1991 it was considered uninhabited. In 2001 it was given the name Panagia, and again 51 inhabitants were counted. The settlements of Chersonisi and Tragonisi were also officially administered from 1940, the last four inhabitants counted in the former in 1991 and one inhabitant in the latter. These three larger islands are now privately owned and used for holiday stays, and the nearby hotels on Evia also take boat trips to the islands.
The island of Foundi housed the first automatic AGA lighthouse in Greece from 1913 , whose reddish light shone around 9 nautical miles.
The individual islands
| Name (s) | Name (s) Greek | surface | highest elev. | location | image |
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| Makronisi (Makry) |
Μακρονήσι (Μακρύ) |
38 ° 2 ′ 47 " N , 24 ° 15 ′ 45" E |
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| Avgo (Strongylo) |
Αυγό (Στογγυλό) |
38 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ N , 24 ° 15 ′ 59 ″ E |
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| Lamberousa (Lemberousa) |
Λαμπερούσα (Λεμπερούσα) |
0.332 km² | 38 ° 2 ′ 46 ″ N , 24 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ E |
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| Foundi (Foundas) |
Φούντι (Φούντας) |
0.128 km² | 38 ° 1 ′ 52 " N , 24 ° 14 ′ 58" E |
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| Praso (Platonisi, Platourada) |
Πράσο (Πλατονήσι, Πλατουράδα) |
38 ° 2 ′ 6 ″ N , 24 ° 15 ′ 25 ″ E |
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| Tragonisi (tragos) |
Τραγονήσι (Τράγος) |
0.268 km² | 38 ° 1 ′ 37 ″ N , 24 ° 16 ′ 13 ″ E |
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| Chersonisi (Mikro Petali, Xero) |
Χερσονήσι (Μικρό Πετάλι, Ξέρο) |
3.833 km² | 186 | 38 ° 1 ′ 26 ″ N , 24 ° 17 ′ 18 ″ E |
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| Pondikoniso | Ποντικόνησο | 38 ° 1 ′ 11 ″ N , 24 ° 16 ′ 27 ″ E | |||
| Megalonisos Petalion (Megalo Petali, Rosa) |
Μεγαλόνησος Πεταλιών (Μεγάλο Πετάλι, Ρώσα) |
17.2 km² | 370 | 37 ° 59 ′ 52 " N , 24 ° 15 ′ 31" E |
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| Louloudi (Loulouda) |
Λουλούδι (Λουλούδα) |
38 ° 0 ′ 14 " N , 24 ° 17 ′ 9" E |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 23
- ↑ Christy Constantakopoulou: The dance of the islands: insularity, networks, the Athenian empire, and the Aegean World, Oxford [u. a.] (Oxford Univ. Press) 2007, ISBN 0-19-921595-2 , p. 218
- ↑ Erika Amman: Greece / Euböa: Auf dem Lande, aerzteblatt.de, August 15, 2009 [( http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/archiv/artikel.asp?id=52037 online])
- ^ Walter Christmas, Arthur G. Chater: King George of Greece, New York (McBride, Nast & Co.) 1914, pp . 140–141, ISBN 1-4021-7527-2 (reprint)
- ↑ Holiday information on the Petalii (German) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Bahnerth: Auf Evia !, travel report in Die Zeit , August 25, 2005 ( online )
- ^ Charles Arnold (ed.): The islands of the Mediterranean . A unique and complete overview. 2nd Edition. marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-86648-096-2 .
