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Aegean Islands | Prince Islands | Minor Asia | Imvros, the martyric island | Cyprus | Constantinople |
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Naxos was first inhabited around 3000 B.C. A significant civilisation emerged on the island. Around 1000 B.C. Ionians from Mikra Asia settled to the island. |
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Thesseas, the mythic hero who had killed Minotaur in Crete, deserted his wife Ariadne, daughter of Kink Mino, to the island and she was consoled by God Dionesus. |
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During the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. Naxos prospered, established a great commercial centre and developed marble sculpture. In 490 B.C., Persians conquered the island and later Athenians liberated it. |
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During Byzantine period Naxos prospered and many churches and monasteries were built. In 648 Saracened plundered the island. |
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After the fall of 1204, venetian crusader Marco Sanudo conquered Naxos and he founded the powerful Duchy of the Aegean. He built there his palace. |
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In 1537 Barbarossa invaded the island and granted it to the sultan, who in 1566 granted Naxos to the Jewish Nazi. |
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During ottoman occupation the islanders became catholic to be saved from the cruelty of turkish tyranny. So in the revolution of 1821, they remained neutral. |
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Naxos has been part of the modern Greek state since 1830. |
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