Ródhos / Rhodes

Maps on our site:

• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis ..., map I-50
  
  
• 1573, Simon Pinargenti, Isole che son da Venetia nella...
  
  
• 1615, Henry de Beauvau, Relation iournaliere du voyage ...
  
  
• 1675, G.A. Remondini Viaggio da Venetia al St. Sepolcro...
  
  
• 1760-s, Antonio Borg, Piani diversi di tutte le isole..., pl. 91
  
  
• 1801, John Luffman, The Harbour of Rhodes

Located at isolated N tip of island; designed by Hippodamus of Miletus & founded in 5th cen. BC; resisted attack by Macedonians, then citizens erected the huge bronze statue of Helios, known as the Colossus of Rhodes, later destroyed by earthquake.

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