Rhodes (grc)

Rhodes

Rhodes ranks 1,283rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Grozny, Bobo-Dioulasso, and Campo Grande. Memorable people born in Rhodes include Panaetius, Andronicus of Rhodes, and Memnon of Rhodes. Memorable people who died in Rhodes include Hipparchus, Heraklonas, and Apollonius of Rhodes. Rhodes has been the birth place of many philosophers, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Rhodes is located in Greece.

Rhodes is the largest of Greece's Dodecanese islands and their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, Rhodes constitutes 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 the city of Rhodes, home to its 50,636 inhabitants according to its 2011 census. By 2022, the island’s population had grown to 125,113 people. Located northeast of Crete and southeast of Athens, Rhodes is often 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. Read more on Wikipedia