In recent decades the Cyclades islands have become popular with European and other tourists, and as a result there have been problems with erosion, pollution, and water shortages.

It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately and a 2001 census population of 13, 670.

The traditional architecture of Santorini is similar to that of the other Cyclades, with low-lying cubical houses, made of local stone and whitewashed or limewashed with various volcanic ashes used as colours.

Santorini is one of the few Cyclades Islands with a major airport, which lies about 6 km southeast of downtown Thera.

* Before 1630 BC – 1500 BC — Landscape ( Spring fresco ), wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction from Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades, is made.

Ceos, where Bacchylides was born and raised, had long had a history of poetical and musical culture, especially in its association with Delos, the focal point of the Cyclades and the principal sanctuary of the Ionian race, where the people of Ceos annually sent choirs to celebrate festivals of Apollo.

This has made agriculture an important economic sector with various vegetable and fruit crops as well as cattle breeding, making Naxos the most self-sufficient island in the Cyclades.

In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, with a Latin Emperor under the influence of the Venetians established at Constantinople, the Venetian Marco Sanudo conquered the island and soon captured the rest of the islands of the Cyclades, establishing himself as Duke of Naxia, or Duke of the Archipelago.

In contrast, the remains of the Early Bronze Age on the island align it with the culture that developed in the Cyclades and Sporades to the south in the Aegean.

He visited France, while in Paris he spent several days at the Musée du Louvre ; Italy, in Rome he sketched, antiquities sculptures and paintings at the Vatican Museums and other galleries, then on to Naples and Pompeii, Bari then to Corfu ; while in Italy Barry had met Charles Lock Eastlake, an architect Mr Kinnaird and a Mr Johnson ( later a professor at Haileybury and Imperial Service College ) with these gentlemen he visited Greece, where their itinerary covered Athens which they left on 25 June 1818, Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Aegina, then the Cyclades, including Delos to Smyrna and Turkey where Barry greatly admired the magnificence of Hagia Sophia, from Constantinople he visited the Troad, Assos, Pergamon and back to Smyrna.

The only Bulbul which occurs in Europe was spotted in the Cyclades and bears a yellow patch, being otherwise of a snuffy brown and this is possibly the bird which has got mixed up with the nightingale in Sufi, particularly Persian Sufi, poetry.

When Antigonus heard that his father's remains were being brought to him, he put to sea with his entire fleet, met Seleucus's ships near the Cyclades, and took the relics to Corinth with great ceremony.

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.

Cythera shared a common destiny with the other Ionian islands, during turbulent Napoleonic era, and is still accounted one of them ; it was counted as one of the Cyclades in antiquity.

Intending to secure revenue in the Cyclades, Minos of Knossos established a navy with which he established his first colonies by taking control of the Hellenic sea and ruling over the Cyclades islands.

" Sporades " means " those scattered " ( compare with " sporadic "), and was used from Classical Antiquity to refer to the Aegean island groups outside the central archipelago of the Cyclades.

A conference in London in March 1829 proposed an independent Greek state with a northern frontier running from Arta to Volos, and including only Euboia and the Cyclades among the islands.

Venetian boats ran alongside the East coast of the Adriatic Sea with stops in Zara, Dyrrachium and Corfou, then around the Peloponese with Koroni and up the Aegean and Cyclades with stops in Naxos, Euboea and Thessaloniki to Constantinople, or via Crete, Alexandria and Syria to Egypt.

There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland.

The Cyclades (;, ) is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece ; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.

These consisted of the Greek mainland south of a line from Arta to Volos plus Euboea and the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea.

LHIIIB is also the period of Linear B script at the mainland palaces ; prior to then, Linear B was in use primarily in the Cyclades and Crete.

The eastern Cliffs with the monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa seen from Agia AnnaDue to Amorgos ' position opposite the ancient beaches of Ionian towns, such as Militos, Alikarnassos and Ephesos, it became one of the first places from which the Ionians passed through to the Cyclades Islands and onto the Greek mainland.

Temperatures rarely reach extremes, although snowfalls do occur occasionally even in Athens, Cyclades or Crete during the winter.

* Siege of Naxos ( 499 BC ), an engagement in the Cyclades during the Greco-Persian Wars

* Siege of Naxos ( 490 BC ), an engagement in the Cyclades during the Greco-Persian Wars

* Battle of Naxos ( 376 BC ), an engagement in the Cyclades during the Boeotian War

Markezinis was elected in the Parliament ( the Vouli ) during the 1946 elections as a member of the United Nationalist Party from the Cyclades.

Little is also known of Sifnos during the Ottoman rule of the Cyclades from 1537 on.

She was captured when the Turks conquered the Cyclades island of Páros, where she was born, during the 1537 war, abducted from there and taken to the royal harem of Ottoman Prince Selim II in Istanbul, where she was renamed " Afife Nûr-Banû ".

Cycladic civilization ( also known as Cycladic culture or The Cycladic period ) is an Early Bronze Age culture of the Cyclades, Greece, in the Aegean Sea, spanning the period from approximately 3000 BC-2000 BC.

The Early Helladic pottery is " standard ... some showing close links with the Cyclades, western Crete and the northeastern Aegean.

From a chronological perspective, the Late Helladic period ( LH, 1550-1060 BC )– is the time when Mycenaean Greece flourished under new influences from Minoan Crete and the Cyclades.

The Late Helladic is the time when Mycenaean Greece flourished, under new influences from Minoan Crete and the Cyclades.

Mancala has also been found in Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece (" Mandoli ," Cyclades ) and in a remote castle in southern Germany ( Schloss Weikersheim ).

As the centre of the circular Aegaean islands (" Cyclades "), Mount Kythnos offers superb views of the innermost islands: Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Syros, and Rhenia.

The Cibyrrhaeots were complemented by two independent naval commands in the Aegean, each headed by a droungarios: the Aigaio Pelagos (" Aegean Sea "), covering the northern half of the Aegean and the Dardanelles and Marmara Sea, and the command variously known as the Dodekanesos (" Twelve Islands ") and Kolpos (" Gulf "), which was based at Samos and comprised the southern Aegean including the Cyclades.

Lerna V is continuous with the preceding phase, distinguished largely by new styles in pottery with the sudden, peaceful introduction of matte-painted ware, the thick-slipped Argive version of gray Minyan ware, and a vigorous increase in the kinds of imported wares, coming from the Cyclades and Crete ( Middle Minoan IA ).

Some Greek gruyères come from San Michálē ( Σαν Μιχάλη, " St. Michael's ") from the island of Syros in the Cyclades, and various graviéras from Crete.

In the neolithic period, some of the early influences upon the development of Cretan culture arise from the Cyclades and from Egypt ; cultural records are written in the undeciphered script known as " Linear A ".

The time period that Thucydides was most likely referencing was the time between 3000 BC and 2000 BC when viticulture emerged in force in the areas of Asia Minor, Crete, Greece and the Cyclades of the Aegean Sea.

Production of vases was largely the prerogative of Athens-it is well attested that as in the proto-geometrical period, in Corinth, Boeotia, Argos, Crete and Cyclades, the painters and potters were satisfied to follow the Attic style.

The Venetian episode came to an end in 1537, when Antiparos and the rest of the Cyclades fell to the Ottomans, and it remained under Ottoman rule until the War of Independence in 1821, apart from a period of four years from 1770 – 1774 when it was ruled by the Russians, who removed many of the magnificent stalactites from the cave to the Hermitage Museum in Russia.

The Venetian Castle of Antiparos is a typical example of the fortified settlements established in the Cyclades the period of Latin in 13th-16th century.