Lemnos Límnos
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Chief town: Myrina
Lemnos is a hilly island rising to 470m/1,540ft at its highest point. Fertile and almost treeless, it produces corn and, increasingly, cotton. The coast is much indented, with two inlets, Pourniás Bay in the north and Moúdros Bay in the south, cutting so deep inland that the eastern and western parts of the island are joined by a strip of land only 4km/2.5 mi wide. The volcanic rock in the east recalls the ancient tradition that, after his fall from Olympus, Hephaistos set up his smithy and married Aphrodite here. The people of Lemnos were notorious for their "wicked deeds," as reported by Herodotus, which provided the Athenian general Miltiades with a pretext for his conquest of the island.
The walled city of Poliokhni, dated to the beginning of the third millennium B.C., belonged to the same pre-Greek culture as Troy and Thermoi (on Lésbos). The first Greeks came to Lemnos about 800 B.C., but a century later gave way to the Tyrsenoi from Asia Minor, whose language, on the evidence of inscriptions found at Kamínia, was related to Etruscan.
Lemnos is a hilly island rising to 470m/1,540ft at its highest point. Fertile and almost treeless, it produces corn and, increasingly, cotton. The coast is much indented, with two inlets, Pourniás Bay in the north and Moúdros Bay in the south, cutting so deep inland that the eastern and western parts of the island are joined by a strip of land only 4km/2.5 mi wide. The volcanic rock in the east recalls the ancient tradition that, after his fall from Olympus, Hephaistos set up his smithy and married Aphrodite here. The people of Lemnos were notorious for their "wicked deeds," as reported by Herodotus, which provided the Athenian general Miltiades with a pretext for his conquest of the island.
The walled city of Poliokhni, dated to the beginning of the third millennium B.C., belonged to the same pre-Greek culture as Troy and Thermoi (on Lésbos). The first Greeks came to Lemnos about 800 B.C., but a century later gave way to the Tyrsenoi from Asia Minor, whose language, on the evidence of inscriptions found at Kamínia, was related to Etruscan.
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Lemnos Tourist Office, Town Hall, Myrina , Greece
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