Facts in brief:
Nation's easternmost town; retained Greek language until 11th cen.; was important trade center with Orient until razed by Turks in 1480; supply base during WW II; scene of Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto; connected by hydrofoil to Corfu.
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