Cephalonia

(Local Name: Kefalloniá (Kefaloniá) / Kefallinía) Area of island: 781 sq. km/302 sq. mi

Altitude: 1,628m/5,341ft

Chief town: Argostóli

Kefalloniá (or Kefallinía; Italian Cefalonia), the largest of the Ionian Islands, is an island of bare limestone hills rising to 1,628m/5,341ft in Mt Aínos and slashed by fertile valleys with luxuriant subtropical vegetation. It is generally accepted as being the Homeric island of Same (but for Wilhelm Dörpfeld's divergent view). The island's main sources of income are agriculture and the tourist trade.

In the "Odyssey" the two islands of Same and Doulichion are described as belonging to the kingdom of Ithaca, but Odysseus's subjects are also called