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RHODES (Island) DODEKANISSOS
In earlier times Rhodes was called Ophiussa and Stadia, and then Telchinis, after the Telchines, who took up their abode in the island.
Althaemenes fearing to be his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes, and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.
DODEKANISSOS (Island complex) GREECE
The name Dodecanese is a thoroughly modern term and was applied in 1908 when twelve privileged islands of the Eastern Aegean, excluding Rhodes, Kos and Lipsos, united to protest against the deprivation by Turkey of special privileges that they had enjoyed since the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent 1495 1566.
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