Skiathos  (Σκιάθος)
Skiathos harbor
Location
Coordinates	39°10′N 23°29′E / 39.167, 23.483Coordinates: 39°10′N 23°29′E / 39.167, 23.483
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Elevation (min-max):	0 - 436 m  (0 -  1430 ft)
Government
Country:	Greece
Periphery:	Thessaly
Prefecture:	Magnesia
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Municipality
- Population:	6,160
- Area:	49.9 km² (19 sq.mi.)
- Density:	123 /km² (320 /sq.mi.)
Codes
Postal codes:	370 02
Area codes:	24270
License plate codes:	ΒΟ
Website
n-skiathos.gr

Skiathos (Greek: Σκιάθος), Latin forms: Sciathos and Sciathus is a city and a small island in the Aegean Sea belonging to Greece. Near to Skopelos, it consists of the main town (Skiathos Town) and the communities of Koukounaries, Kanapitsa, Vromolimnos and Troullos. Skiathos is the westernmost island in the Sporades group of islands. The mainland of Greece along with Magnesia are to the west. The name of the island dates back to ancient times. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 238 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 685 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (800 × 700 pixel, file size: 27 KB, MIME type: image/png) Other versions Adapted from Image:Greece outline map. ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing daylight saving Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... -12 | -11 | -10 | -9:30 | -9 | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3:30 | -3 | -2:30 | -2 | -1 | -0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including independent states (both those that are internationally recognised and generally unrecognised), inhabited dependent territories and areas of special sovereignty. ... The peripheries (περιφέρειες) are the subnational divisions of Greece. ... Map showing Thessaly periphery in Greece Thessaly (Θεσσαλια; modern Greek Thessalía; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 prefectures. ... Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos, Greek: νομοί, νομός)): See also List of the prefectures of Greece by area List of the prefectures of Greece by population density List of the prefectures of Greece by population External... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This is an alphabetical list of municipalities and communities in Greece. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Here are list of postal codes in Greece. ... This is a list of dialing codes in Greece. ... Greek car number plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate (e. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece. ... Look up Aegean Sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Skopelos (Greek: Σκόπελος) is a Greek island in the western Aegean sea. ... Koukounaries beach Koukounaries (Greek: Κουκουναριές, meaning pine trees), is a site on the island Skiathos, 16km southwest of Skiathos Town, Greece. ... Troullos (also Trullos, Godart & Olivier abbreviation: TL) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement on Crete. ... This is a list of some of the 3000 islands of Greece: Chrysi Crete Dia Euboea Gavdos Koufonisi Ydra The Cyclades Amorgos Anafi Andros Antiparos Anydro Delos Donoussa Folegandros Gyaros Ios Irakleia Kea Keros Kimolos Kithnos Makronisos Milos Mykonos (Mikonos) Naxos Paros Pholegandros Santorini (also called Thira) Serifos Sifnos Sikinos... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Skiathos town has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, many churches, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia). The island of Skiathos has 70 beaches all around it. Skiathos town is a port which shelters small boats and from where ferry services connect to Skopelos, Volos, Agios Konstantinos and the rest of Greece. Plateia (πλατεία) is the Greek word for town square. ... Volos (Greek: Βόλος, Ottoman Turkish: Golos) is a city situated at the center of the Greek mainland, about 326 km north from Athens and 215 km south from Thessaloniki. ...

Geography

Skiathos satellite photo.

Much of the island is forested. The area around the villages and Skiathos Town are farmland. The island's forests are pine and are located in the southeastern part of the island. The island of Skopelos can be seen from Skiathos with the more distant islands of Euboea and Scyros also visible in clearer conditions. The mountaintop, which has a communications tower, is to the west. The slope of the hill is to the north and contains several valleys. Image File history File links Skiathos_satellite. ... Image File history File links Skiathos_satellite. ... Subgenera Subgenus Strobus Subgenus Ducampopinus Subgenus Pinus See Pinus classification for complete taxonomy to species level. ... Skopelos (Greek: Σκόπελος) is a Greek island in the western Aegean sea. ... Euboea or Negropont (Modern Greek: Εύβοια Evia, Ancient Greek Εúβοια Eúboia; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is the largest island of the Greek archipelago. ... Skyros (Greek: Σκύρος) is the southernmost island of the Sporades, a Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea. ...

Skiathos has approximately 70 beaches including one nudist beach at south end of the island in a resort called Bananna. People skinny dipping and sunbathing nude at Bredene nudist beach in Belgium. ...

Transportation

An Air Malta flight prepares to leave from Skiathos International Airport.

The island is linked to mainland Greece with sea routes from Thessaloniki, Volos and Agios Konstantinos and also to the rest of the Sporades (all by hydrofoil, Hellenic Seaways). This costs roughly €12 a person return to Skopelos and €15 return to Alonissos (car Ferries are also available but not as regular out of holiday season). There also exists an airport at the northeast of the island. The airport has one of the shortest runways in Europe measuring only 3/4 of a mile (1570m) which means that aircraft landings can be a little hair-raising. Subsequent take-offs result in a short flight before landing at another airfield (primarily nearby Volus, Kavala, Thessaloniki) to refuel as most aircraft are unable to take off with the required amount of fuel for its flight from the short runway. However, in the early and late on in the holiday season it is possible to make it all the way back to the United Kingdom on most aircraft due to lighter passenger loads. If you are lucky enough to travel on a 757-200(the largest aircraft type to visit the island, operated by XL Airways, First Choice, Astraeus, Blue Panorama and Air Italy (info from the Summer 2006)) you will unlikely need to refuel which means you will save upto an hour on the journey home. There is airline connection (Olympic approx 45 mins) to Athens throughout the year. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 421 KB) Summary Taken 7th July 2006 at Skiathos Alexandros Papadiamantis International Airport by Adam Sharma Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 421 KB) Summary Taken 7th July 2006 at Skiathos Alexandros Papadiamantis International Airport by Adam Sharma Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Thessaloniki or Salonica (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη) is Greeces second-largest city and the capital of Macedonia. ... Volos (Greek: Βόλος, Ottoman Turkish: Golos) is a city situated at the center of the Greek mainland, about 326 km north from Athens and 215 km south from Thessaloniki. ... Agios Konstantinos is a community of the Greek prefecture of Attica. ...

The roads are to the south and to the east and to the northwest. There are no gravel roads to the central and the northern part. There is only one major road and is linked with all of the four settlements on the island. The one linking to the northwest are not used and has the view of the eastern part of Magnesia. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

There is frequent bus connection from Koukounaries to Skiathos town with buses stopping approximately every 20 minutes, costing €1.50 to travel from one end of the island to the other. Taxis are also very cheap, although their driving leaves a little to be desired. Koukounaries beach Koukounaries (Greek: Κουκουναριές, meaning pine trees), is a site on the island Skiathos, 16km southwest of Skiathos Town, Greece. ...

History

In Ancient times, the island played a minor role during the Persian Wars. In 480 BC, the fleet of the Persian king Xerxes was hit by a storm and was badly damaged on the rocks of the Skiathos coast. Following this the Greek fleet was held to stalemate with the Persian fleet at Artemisium but finally managed to destroy the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis. Skiathos remained in the Delian League until it lost its independence. The city was destroyed by Philip V of Macedon in 200 BC. The Temple of Athena, the Parthenon Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around nine hundred years. ... The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. The term can also refer to the continual warfare of the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire against the Parthians and... The Persian invasion of Greece in 480-479 BC May — King Xerxes I of Persia marches from Sardis and onto Thrace and Macedonia. ... The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the old Persian homeland, and beyond in Western Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. ... Xerxes the Great (Persian: خشایارشا, Khšāyāršā, Old Persian: Xšayāršā) was a Persian Emperor (Shahanshah) (reigned 485–465 BCE) of the Achaemenid Dynasty. ... Combatants Greek city-states Persia Commanders Eurybiades of Sparta Themistocles of Athens Adeimantus of Corinth Unknown Strength 333 ships 500 ships Casualties Half of Fleet (Herodotus) Unknown The naval Battle of Artemisium took place, according to tradition, on the same day as the Battle of Thermopylae on August 11, 480... Combatants Greek city-states Persia, Halicarnassus Commanders Eurybiades of Sparta Themistocles of Athens Adeimantus of Corinth Aristides of Athens Xerxes I of Persia, Ariamenes †, Artemisia Strength 366-380 ships a 1,000-1,207 ships [1]b Casualties 40 ships 500 ships a Herodotus gives 378 of the alliance, but... Delian League (Athenian Empire), right before the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC. Corcyra was not part of the League The Delian League was an association of Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. It was led by Athens. ... Coin of Philip V. The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ([coin] of King Philip). ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC Years: 205 BC 204 BC 203 BC 202 BC 201 BC - 200 BC - 199 BC 198 BC...

The Bourtzi of Skiathos at dawn.

During the middle ages the island was repeatedly ravaged by pirate attacks. In 1207 the Gyzi brothers captured the island and buit the Bourtzi, a small Venetian-styled fortress similar to the Bourtzi in Nafplio, on an islet just out of Skiathos town, to protect the capital from the pirates. But the Bourtzi was ineffective in protecting the population and in the middle 14th century the inhabitants moved the capital from the ancient site that lay where modern Skiathos town is to Kastro (the Greek word for castle), located on a high rock, overlooking a steep cliff above the sea at the northernmost part of the island. Kastro remained the only settlement of the island until the end of the Greek War of Independence, when the island's capital was relocated to the original site - where it still remains. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 450 KB) Summary Description: The Mpourtzi of Skiathos at dawn. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 450 KB) Summary Description: The Mpourtzi of Skiathos at dawn. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Events Stephen Langton consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury June 17 by Pope Innocent III Births September 8 - King Sancho II of Portugal October 1 - King Henry III of England (d. ... The Castle of Bourtzi is located in the middle of the harbour of Nafplion. ... Náfplio (Ναύπλιον) is a town on the Peloponnese in Greece. ... Pierrefonds Castle, France. ... Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the 14th century until its declaration of independence in 1821. ...

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During the 19th century Skiathos became an important shipbuilding centre in the Aegean due to the abundance of pine forests on the island. The pine woods of the island were then almost obliterated. This was brought to a halt though, due to the emergence of steamboats. A small shipwright remains north of Skiathos town, which still builds traditional Greek caiques. Men from Francisco de Orellanas expedition building a small brigantine, the San Pedro, to be used in the search for food Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ... Look up Aegean Sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Subgenera Subgenus Strobus Subgenus Ducampopinus Subgenus Pinus See Pinus classification for complete taxonomy to species level. ... Paddle steamers — Lucerne, Switzerland. ... Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ... The kaiki or caique is the Greek (from Turkish) name for a wooden fishing boat usually found among the waters of the Ionian or Aegean Seas. ...

In 1964 Skiathos was designated by the Greek National Tourism Organisation as a development zone for tourism. The results of this decision have largely transformed the island, due to tourist-orientated construction projects. These include the construction of the coast road from Skiathos town to Koukounaries, the construction of Skiathos airport in 1984 and the construction of the first large hotel over Koukounaries beach. Along the coast road many hotels have been constructed since the island became an important tourist destination. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Koukounaries beach Koukounaries (Greek: Κουκουναριές, meaning pine trees), is a site on the island Skiathos, 16km southwest of Skiathos Town, Greece. ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ...

There were have been protests in the early-2000s, one against mining in September 2002 as they were pushing away mining trucks which was owned by the municipality and another in 2004, a power line which would have connect hydro with the rest of the Sporades was also being protested due to the plan being in a forested area. The 2000s are the current decade, spanning from 2000 to 2009. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2002. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

2007 forest fire

On Wednesday, 11 July 2007, a fire, sparked at a garbage dump near the beach at Aghia Paraskevi, grew into a forest fire which spread rapidly across the island. Aghia Paraskevi was evacuated of all residents, and tourists were ordered off of the island. [1] is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... --> Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Fire in San Bernardino, California Mountains (image taken from the International Space Station) A wildfire, also known as a forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire in wildland often caused by lightning; other common causes are human carelessness and arson. ...

Historical population

The majority of the population (4,584 or 88.5%) of the total population live in the city. There are no municipal boundaries. It is encircled with the Aegean Sea. Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Persons

• Alexandros Papadiamantis
• Alexandros Moraytidis
• Charalambos Garyfallou

Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: ) (March 3, 1851 - 3 January 1911) was a famous Greek writer. ...

Significant Sites on Skiathos

• Skiathos town ("Chora")
• Agia Paraskevi
• Koukounaries
• Bourtzi
• Lalaria beach
• Evangelistria Monastery
• Kastro

Koukounaries beach Koukounaries (Greek: Κουκουναριές, meaning pine trees), is a site on the island Skiathos, 16km southwest of Skiathos Town, Greece. ...

External links

• Municipality of Skiathos
• Mapquest - Skiathos