Santorini became independent from Ottoman rule in 1821, during the Greek War of Independence and was united with Greece in 1830 under the Treaty of London.

Spyros Markezinis was a scion of an old wealthy family of Santorini Island, who were at some time given the title marchesini ( i. e., " little Marquesses ") during Venetian rule.

The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.

Minoan civilization | Minoan youths boxing, Akrotiri ( Santorini ) fresco.

In Santorini made from yellow lentils.

Notable is the white eggplant from Santorini.

* 1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.

The south coast has two populated areas ; the bay of Komi and the ancient village of " Emporio ", inhabited since 1800 BC, and the site of the black volcanic beach of " Mavra Volia ", believed to have been created by the explosion of Santorini island in 1600 BC.

Linear A incised on tablets found in Akrotiri, Santorini.

Santorini (, pronounced ), classically Thera (), and officially Thira ( Greek: Θήρα ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland.

The municipality of Santorini comprises the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, and Christiana.

Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit.

Santorini is essentially what remains after an enormous volcanic explosion that destroyed the earliest settlements on a formerly single island, and created the current geological caldera.

Santorini was named by the Latin Empire in the thirteenth century, and is a reference to Saint Irene, from the name of the old cathedral in the village of Perissa.

The name Thera was revived in the nineteenth century as the official name of the island and its main city, but the colloquial name Santorini is still in popular use.

The present municipality of Thera ( officially: " Thira ", ), which covers all settlements on the islands of Santorini and Therasia, was formed at the 2011 local government reform, by the merger of the former Oia and Thera municipalities.

The municipality of Thera includes an additional 12 local subdivisions on Santorini island: Akrotiri, Emporio, Episkopis Gonia, Exo Gonia, Imerovigli, Karterados, Megalohori, Mesaria, Pyrgos Kallistis, Thera ( the seat of the municipality ), Vothon, and Vourvoulos.

Volcanism on Santorini is due to the Hellenic Trench subduction zone southwest of Crete.

The subduction compels the formation of the Hellenic arc, which includes Santorini and other volcanic centres, such as Methana, Milos, and Kos.

Satellite image of Santorini caldera.

Santorini and Anafi are the only locations in Europe to feature a hot desert climate according to the Köppen climate classification system.

Santorini remained unoccupied throughout the rest of the Bronze Age, during which time the Greeks took over Crete.

In 1956 a major earthquake near Amorgos island resulted in the demolishing of many buildings in the north of Santorini, leading to the desertion of many of its villages.

Santorini was ranked world's top island for 2011 in Travel + Leisure Magazine.

Every so often the diminishing sound of a car came under the trailer as it slowed down for the wreck then speeded up again as it got clear.

I came under the spell of a younger group in the church led by the pastor's older son.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

When a second quake came, they dashed back to the beach, fearing that they might be buried under landslides.

The Kennedy administration's new housing and urban renewal proposals, particularly their effect on the Federal Housing Administration, came under fire in Dallas last week.

A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.

Cold came in the innumerable cracks that seemed to have sprung up, under doors, around loosened window frames, from the sleeping porches, the attic, from the widened cracks between shingles on the roof.

Then and throughout the war, Lincoln came under heavy, often vituperative attack from antiwar Democrats, called Copperheads.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.

Such conditions came under the aegis of psychiatry at the end of the 19th century and current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize several specific forms of the disorder.

There are also reports that 50 combat aircraft from the disbanded 19th Army of the Soviet Air Defence Forces came under Azeri control.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

The earliest written reference to the town, under the name of Habensperch, came from this time, in around 1138.

Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

He came from Antioch and served under Constantius II and was probably appointed to ensure that nobody with western associations was serving in Britain during a time of mistrust, rebellion and suppression symbolised by the brutal acts of the imperial notary Paulus Catena.

Husband and wife quarrelled with the brutality of the age and came to open war, even placing Urraca under siege at Astorga in 1112.

A case can be made that discriminatory lines came to be drawn more sharply under Athenian democracy than before or elsewhere, in particular in relation to woman and slaves, as well as in the line between citizens and non-citizens.

The modern American Media came into being after Generoso Pope, Jr., longtime owner of The National Enquirer, died in 1988, and his tabloids came under new ownership.

In the event, it came under the control of the Duchy of Athens.

The Catalan Company seized control of Athens, and with it Aegina, in 1317, and in 1425 the island came under Venetian control, when Alioto Caopena, at that time ruler of Aegina, placed himself with treaty under the Republic's protection in order to escape the danger of a Turkish raid.