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.

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.

Santorini was also named " the world's best island " by the BBC in 2011.

Santorini was also struck by a devastating earthquake in 1956.

New archaeological discoveries by a team of international scientists, in 2006, have revealed that the Santorini event was much more massive than previously thought ; it expelled of magma and rock into the Earth's atmosphere, compared to previous estimates of only in 1991 ,< ref >

** The steamer Danae () carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretans on the first leg of their way to Auschwitz was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.

The current distance and duration record recognised by the FAI was achieved on 23 April 1988 from Heraklion on Crete to Santorini in a MIT Daedalus 88 piloted by Kanellos Kanellopoulos: a straight distance of in 3 hours, 54 minutes.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorini ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

Cyrene was founded in 630 BC as a settlement of Greeks from the Greek island of Thera ( Santorini ), traditionally led by Battus I, at a site ten miles from its associated port, Apollonia ( Marsa Sousa ).

It is now considered that the island of Thera, now Santorini, in the Aegean Sea, was destroyed by a tremendous series of volcanic explosions around 1620 BCE, with ash falls of up to a foot deep recorded in Turkey.

From fresco artworks found in Akrotiri on the Mediterranean island of Santorini there is evidence that the vervet monkey was known to the inhabitants of this settlement around 2000 BC ; this fact is most noted for evidence of early contact between Egypt and Akrotiri.

His studies of the eruptive rocks of Corsica, Santorini and elsewhere ; his researches on the artificial reproduction of eruptive rocks, and his treatise on the optical characters of feldspars deserve special mention ; but he was perhaps best known for the joint work which he carried on with his friend Auguste Michel-Lévy.

The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus was a human-powered aircraft that, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance of 71. 5 mi ( 115. 11 km ) in 3 hours, 54 minutes, from Iraklion on the island of Crete to the island of Santorini.

In February 1866 Surprise was visiting the Greek island of Santorini, which is part of the rim of a volcano.

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 smaller 100-seat Fokker 100 was used on the following charter flights for Greek travel agencies: Bratislava-Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki-Chania, Chios, Kos, Rhodos, Samos, Santorini.

The Kolumbo underwater volcano in the Aegean Sea was discovered in 1650 when it burst from the sea and erupted, killing 70 people on the nearby island of Santorini.

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.

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.

Fossilized leaves of Olea were found in the palaeosols of the volcanic Greek island of Santorini ( Thera ) and were dated about 37, 000 Before Present ( BP ).

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

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.

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.

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.

* c. 4000 BC — First neolithic settlers in the island of Thera ( Santorini ), Greece, migrating probably from Minoan Crete.

Image: Saffron gatherers detail Thera Santorini. gif | Saffron gatherers appear in Minoan frescos on the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea.

* Santorini, a Greek island

Methana is also the youngest most active volcano center and forms the northwestern end of the cycladic arch of active volcanoes that includes Milos island, Santorini island and Nisyros island.

Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides, situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini.

* Ia or Oia, Greece, a small town on the island of Santorini

However, excavations held in Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini by professor Christos G. Doumas, unearthed stone sets of barbecue for skewers ( Greek: κρατευταί-krateutai ) used before the 17th century BCE.

Folegandros (, also Pholegandros ) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea which, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades.

* Pyrgos Kallistis, a village in the island of Santorini

Excavations held in Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini by professor Christos G. Doumas, unearthed stone sets of barbecue for skewers ( Ancient Greek: κρατευταί-krateutai ) used before the 17th century BCE.

These rooms are prized because of the high insulation provided by the air-filled pumice, and are used as living quarters of unique coolness in the summer and warmth in the winter, and also as premium storage space for produce and especially for wine cellaring: the Kánava wineries of Santorini.

This part of the duodenum also contains the minor duodenal papilla, the entrance for the accessory pancreatic duct ( of Santorini ).

Parikía harbour is a major hub for Aegean islands ferries and catamarans, with several sailings each day for Piraeus, the port of Athens, Heraklion, the capital of Crete, and other islands such as Naxos, Ios, Santorini, and Mykonos.

Solar thermal system for water heating in Santorini, Greece.

Beatrice Santorini gives examples in " Part-of-speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project ," ( 3rd rev, June 1990 ), including the following ( p. 32 ) case in which entertaining can function either as an adjective or a verb, and there is no evident way to decide:

The two decide to head for the Greek island of Santorini and begin to fall for each other.