Kos
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Chief town: Kos
Kos (Italian Coo, Turkish Istanköy) lies at the mouth of the Gulf of Kos, which cuts deep into the coast of Asia Minor. It was separated from the Bodrum (Halikarnassos) peninsula, five km/3mi northeast, by the collapse of a rift valley in the Pliocene period. It is the largest island in the Dodecanese after Rhodes.
A range of limestone hills, rising to 846m/2,776ft in Mt Díkaios (ancient Oromedon), traverses the island for almost its entire length from west to east. Unlike most other Aegean islands, Kos has a population that is increasing in numbers. Their main sources of income are agriculture and horticulture, the rearing of small livestock, fishing, crafts (particularly pottery and weaving) and, increasingly, the tourist trade.
Kos has been well populated since Neolithic times. About 700 B.C., together with the other five cities of the Hexapolis (Knidos, Halikarnassos, Lindos, Ialysos and Kameiros), Kos was an outpost of the Dorian League of cities on the Carian coast and the neighboring islands.
Kos (Italian Coo, Turkish Istanköy) lies at the mouth of the Gulf of Kos, which cuts deep into the coast of Asia Minor. It was separated from the Bodrum (Halikarnassos) peninsula, five km/3mi northeast, by the collapse of a rift valley in the Pliocene period. It is the largest island in the Dodecanese after Rhodes.
A range of limestone hills, rising to 846m/2,776ft in Mt Díkaios (ancient Oromedon), traverses the island for almost its entire length from west to east. Unlike most other Aegean islands, Kos has a population that is increasing in numbers. Their main sources of income are agriculture and horticulture, the rearing of small livestock, fishing, crafts (particularly pottery and weaving) and, increasingly, the tourist trade.
Kos has been well populated since Neolithic times. About 700 B.C., together with the other five cities of the Hexapolis (Knidos, Halikarnassos, Lindos, Ialysos and Kameiros), Kos was an outpost of the Dorian League of cities on the Carian coast and the neighboring islands.
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Address:
Kos Tourist Office, Akti Miaouli 2, 85300 Kos, Greece
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Scenery in Kos.
Castle on Kos Island.
Ancient ruins at Asklepion.
Excavations on Kos Island.
