The island of Chrysi, 15 km south of Ierapetra, has the largest naturally grown Lebanon Cedar forest in Europe.

Popular tourist attractions include the archaeological sites of the Minoan civilisation, the Venetian old city and port of Chania, the Venetian castle at Rethymno, the gorge of Samaria, the islands of Chrysi, Elafonisi, Gramvousa, and Spinalonga and the Palm Beach of Vai, which is the largest natural palm forest in Europe.

The far right political party Golden Dawn ( Chrysi Avyi ) is often labeled as neo-Nazi, although the group rejects this label.

Larnax | Golden Larnax ( Chrysi Larnaka ) ( with the Sun of Vergina on the lid ) that contains the remains ( bones ) from the burial of King Philip II of Macedonia and the royal golden wreath.

Chrysi Avyi members in the GVG were decorated by Radovan Karadžić, but — according to former Chrysi Avyi member Charis Kousoumvris — those who were decorated later left the party.

Golden Dawn (, Chrysi Avgi, ) is a right-wing extremist political organization in Greece.

Cover of the 1st issue of the Chrysi Avgi magazine, December 1980.

In December 1980, Nikolaos Michaloliakos and a group of supporters launched Chrysi Avgi magazine.

Chrysi Avgi magazine ceased publication in April 1984, when Michaloliakos joined the National Political Union and took over the leadership of its youth section.

In October 1997, Giannopoulos published an article in Chrysi Avgi magazine calling for nationalist vigilantism against immigrants and liberals.

Eleftherotypia criticized Chrysi Avgi in 2005 after party members distributed homophobic fliers during an Athens gay pride parade.

The island has an elongated shape: it spans from east to west, is at its widest point, and narrows to as little as ( close to Ierapetra ).

The fertile region around Ierapetra, on the southeastern corner of the island, is renowned for its exceptional year-round agricultural production, with all kinds of summer vegetables and fruit produced in greenhouses throughout the winter.

Myrtos is a coastal village in the west of the municipality of Ierapetra, in the regional unit of Lasithi on the island of Crete in Greece.

Ierapetra (, meaning Sacred Stone ; ancient name: Ἱεράπυτνα Hierapytna ) is a town and municipality in the southeast of the Greek island of Crete.

The former municipality of Ierapetra, a municipal unit since January 2011, covers an area of 394. 774 square kilometres, a population of 23, 707 ( 2001 ), nearly twice that of the town, 15, 323 ( 2001 ) and consisted of the town of Ierapetra, several villages and hamlets and the island of Chrissi.

Agios Nikolaos ( or Aghios Nikolaos, ) is a coastal town on the Greek island of Crete, lying east of the island's capital Heraklion, north of the town of Ierapetra and west of the town of Sitia.

It lies north of Ierapetra in the middle of the narrowest part of the island.

He is credited with introducing new planting techniques first on Syros island and later in Ierapetra, Crete.

At the end of the Turkish occupation the island, together with the fort at Ierapetra, was the refuge of many Ottoman families that feared Christian reprisals.

A large variety of birds includes eagles ( can be seen in Lasithi ), swallows ( throughout Crete but throughout the year in the south of the island ), pelicans ( along the coast ), and cranes ( including Gavdos and Gavdopoula ).

Lasithi () is the easternmost regional unit on the island of Crete, to the east of Heraklion.

As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Lasithi was created out of the former prefecture of Lasithi (), which was created while Crete was still an autonomous state and was retained after the island joined Greece in 1913.

The island of Spinalonga (), officially known as Kalydon ( Καλυδών ), is located in the Gulf of Elounda in north-eastern Crete, in Lasithi, next to the town of Elounda.

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

A line running from Cape Aspro ( 28 ° 16 ' E ) in Asia Minor, to Cum Burnù ( Capo della Sabbia ) the Northeast extreme of the Island of Rhodes, through the island to Cape Prasonisi, the Southwest point thereof, on to Vrontos Point ( 35 ° 33 ' N ) in Skarpanto < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, through this island to Castello Point, the South extreme thereof, across to Cape Plaka ( East extremity of Crete ), through Crete to Agria Grabusa, the Northwest extreme thereof, thence to Cape Apolitares in Antikithera Island, through the island to Psira Rock ( off the Northwest point ) and across to Cape Trakhili in Kithera Island, through Kithera to the Northwest point ( Cape Karavugia ) and thence to Cape Santa Maria () in the Morea.

An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain or cluster of islands.

However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island of Kythira ( Cythera ), for which reason she is called " Cytherea ".

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.

By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus ( father of Achilles ), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to the two others, both of whom contrived to kill Phocus during a contest, and then fled from their native island.

The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north ( unlike the rest of Denmark which is very flat with few hills and no mountains ), sloping down towards “ pine and deciduous forests ” ( greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s ) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.

Bornholm Regional Municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as the result of the nationwide Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), which is quite understandable, since the island, as can be seen on maps, is quite far from the rest of Denmark.

* Britons ( historical ), ancient Celtic inhabitants of the island of Great Britain south of the Firth of Forth.

The Batavi were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II ( 317-361 ), when their island was already dominated by the Salii, a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection there in 297 after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons.

Chapter and cathedral, surrounded by further ecclesiastical institutions, were located on Dominsel ( cathedral island ), which formed a prince-episcopal immunity district, distinct from the city of Brandenburg.

During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.

:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.

In Yunnan, China, inhabitants would flee from their homes as soon as they saw dead rats, and on the island of Formosa ( Taiwan ), residents considered the handling of dead rats heightened the risks of developing plague.

European control of the Bandas was contested up until 1667 when, under the Treaty of Breda ( 1667 ), the British traded the small island of Run for Manhattan, giving the Dutch full control of the Banda archipelago.