Rhodes
Island in Greece
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Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the overall Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, the island forms a separate 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 Rhodes. The city of Rhodes had 50,636 inhabitants in 2011. In 2022, the island had a population of 125,113 people. It is located northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens. Rhodes has several nicknames, such as "Island of the Sun" due to its patron sun god Helios, "The Pearl Island", and "The Island of the Knights", named after the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who ruled the island from 1310 to 1522.
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Greek PM offers free holiday to tourists who fled Rhodes wildfiresGreece's prime minister has offered a week-long free holiday in Rhodes next year for tourists whose vacation was cut short by wildfires.Sky News - Published | |
British family fleeing Rhodes face nightmare 'towering inferno compared with Titanic'A British holidaymaker has described the nightmare scenario he faced as he fled wildfire-ravaged Rhodes with his wife and two young children.Sky News - Published | |
Thousands of Britons flown from Rhodes to UK - as wildfires burn 10% of land on the Greek islandThousands of Britons have been flown back from Rhodes - with new estimates suggesting 10% of land on the Greek island has been burned by wildfires.Sky News - Published | |
'It has been really traumatic': Tourists and villagers join exodus as wildfires tear across RhodesIn the Greek village of Massari, on the east coast of Rhodes, they're clearing out.Sky News - Published | |
Grandmother who thought she was going to die among angry tourists stranded in RhodesOn the floor of Rhodes airport, the exhausted sleep.Sky News - Published | |
Flights to get hundreds of Britons out of Rhodes amid new fire alerts on CorfuFlights have been arranged to get hundreds of Britons out of Rhodes, as thousands continue to flee wildfires on the Greek island - and new evacuations were announced on Corfu.Sky News - Published | |
British family spend night on school floor after Rhodes wildfire evacuation orderA British family spent a night sleeping on the floor of a school after being evacuated from a wildfire on the Greek island of Rhodes.Sky News - Published | |
Trying to escape Rhodes wildfires 'was literally like the end of the world', says UK touristEscaping the wildfires in Rhodes felt like "the end of the world", a British tourist has told Sky News.Sky News - Published | |
Wildfires on Rhodes force hundreds of holidaymakers to flee their hotelsWildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes have forced hundreds of holidaymakers to flee their hotels.Sky News - Published |
