🏛️ Medieval City of Rhodes

Greece · Europe · Cultural · 36.44°N, 28.22°E

Rhodes is the largest of Greece's Dodecanese islands and their historical capital, as well as the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, Rhodes constitutes a municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean administrative region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is the city of Rhodes, home to 50,636 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. By 2022, the island's population had grown to 125,113 people. Located northeast of Crete and southeast of Athens, Rhodes is referred to by several nicknames: "the Island of the Sun" after its patron sun god Helios; "the Pearl Island"; and "the Island of the Knights", a reference to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who ruled the island from 1310 to 1522.

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Quick facts

Country	Greece
Continent / region	Europe
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	36.44°N, 28.22°E · view on map

Medieval City of Rhodes is a cultural World Heritage site in Greece, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Medieval City of Rhodes was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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