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Introduction<br>The Dodecanese archipelago forms the remotest territory of the modern Greek state, up to 250 nautical miles from Athens. All of it is closer to Turkey than mainland Greece, a fact not lost on the two states concerned; indeed these scattered islands have only been part of Greece since 1948, representing the last successful phase of the Megli Idha, a century-long campaign to reclaim historically Greek territories. Even now the threat (real or imagined) of invasion from Turkey is very much in evidence. Asked about the heavy military presence, locals talk in terms of when the Turks come, rarely if . . .. Greek nationalists began referring to the islands as the Dhodheknisos (Twelve Islands) after 1908, though in actual fact there are fourteen major and four minor inhabited isles in the group, plus nine more, large and small, which make up the more northerly east Aegean islands, part of Greece since 1912.<br> Unlike the poor, remote Cyclades in the central Aegean, these stepping stones en route to the Middle East or Anatolia have always been fated for invasion and occupation: too rich and strategic to be ignored, but never powerful enough to rule in their own right. Roman

Author

and researched by Marc Dubin

Publisher

Rough Guides ; Distributed by Penguin Group

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781858284170

Subjects

Travel, Language Learning, Humanities