Proti
| Proti (Πρώτη) | ||
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| Waters | Mediterranean Sea | |
| Archipelago | Ionian islands | |
| Geographical location | 37 ° 3 '5 " N , 21 ° 33' 7" E | |
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| length | 3.68 km | |
| width | 1.86 km | |
| surface | 2.8 km² | |
| Residents | 4th 1.4 inhabitants / km² |
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Proti ( Greek Πρώτη ( f. Sg. )) Is a small Greek island in the group of the Ionian Islands .
location
Proti belongs to the municipality of Trifylia in the regional district of Messenia in the southwest of the Peloponnese . The 2001 census counted four residents.
The island is only 1.2 km off the coast of Marathoupolis, a district of Gargaliani . There are no springs or wells. The island is used as a sheep pasture.
history
The name of the island is derived from the sea god Proteus .
There are ruins of an acropolis with walls and a castle ring from the Mycenaean or pre-classical period.
There are about 30 inscriptions from the post-classical, Roman and Byzantine periods with requests for a safe journey; they come from travelers who sought shelter here with their boats from storms and asked the gods for a safe onward journey. There is also a small chapel dedicated to Artemis and a church built in honor of the Virgin Mary on the island . In the heyday of piracy, the island was used by the pirate Katoulias as a hiding place.
The Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV was blinded in 1072 and not banished to this island, but to the island of the same name in the archipelago of the Princes' Islands off Constantinople / Istanbul, where he died after a few days of being blinded .
Web links
- Portrait on the pages of the former Gargaliani community ( Memento from February 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive )