Skilled navigators, the Rhodians founded many colonies and Gagae Corydalla in Lycia, Soli in Cilicia, Gela in Sicily, Sybaris, Siris, Salapia, Parthenope Italy, Rhode (Rosas) in Spain, not to mention their counters Balearic Islands. The foundation of the city of Rhodes (-408) Ultimately, the Rhodians take an active part in the revolt against Athens island, called Social War (357-355) in Caria princes encourage them to do, which does not stop soon Rhodian aristocrats to seek the with Athens against Caria. The Democratic Party was in favor of the Athenians, the Spartans the aristocratic party, as in the rest of Greece from 412 to 370, there were five revolutions. According to Thucydides, they quickly seized the town, which is not fortified and they force people to change sides.ĭuring the next century, the island was involved in the Greek wars. In 411 BC, the Spartans parties Cnidus, landed at Camiros with 94 ships. The three cities were liberated Athens in 412 BC In the fifth century BC, the three cities were part of the Delian League, a confederation of Greek states with Athens as its head (471-411). The city regained its independence in the late Greco-Persians Wars before joining the island as the Delian League. Sixth century BC government tyrants Cléobule the tyrant, one of the Seven Sages of Greece.Īt the end of the sixth century and the early fifth century BC, Camiros is dependent on Persia. Several centuries of the history of the island remain obscure. In the seventh century BC, the three cities traded with the Middle East and Egypt, built settlements in the neighboring islands on the coast of Asia Minor, and even in Italy (Naples). Rhodes seems to be one of the first regions of Hellas to have adopted the alphabet. The Dorians are in the center of a thriving maritime trade with the colonies are scattered throughout the Aegean, the island entered a period of prosperity.Ĭamiros was the first to mint its own currency.Īccording to Herodotus, to -1000 BC, the three cities Camiros, of Ialyssos and Lindos formed with those of Kos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus (on the coast of Caria), the Hexapole Dorian.įrom the eighth century BC, trade and artistic production grow at Rhodes, which maintains relations with one hand the Middle East, and secondly with the Attica and Crete. All three are mentioned by Homer (poet, late eighth century) in the Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, II, 653-656): "Those of Lindos, a white Iélyse and Camire." The second millennium, around 1100 BC, the Dorians took the island under the leadership of the Tlepolemus Heraclides, and founded three cities: the white Camiros west, Ialyssos north on Aegean and Lindos east on the Mediterranean coast of the island. Rhodes then in the area of influence of the civilization of Minoan Crete. The ancient texts say that the town of Lindos provided seven ships of the Achaeans who went to Troy. The island of Rhodes is invaded about 1400 BC by Achaeans who then established the Mycenaean civilization.
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