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Zakynthos is one of the
islands of the Ionian Islands. It is the southernmost and third in area and
population of the Ionian island nison.I length is 406 t km and the population
amounts to 38,680 inhabitants (census 2001). From the Peloponnese is 9.5
nausea. miles (from the prefecture of Ilia Kilini) 8.5 and nausea. miles from
the nearest island in the island.
The shape of the island
is an irregular triangular with both northern edge of the island ends in Cape
Skinari and formed in the southeaster Gulf of Laganas between the two capes,
Marathi in the West and East Geraka. In the Gulf of Laganas, there are two
islands, the Marathonisi and Peluso, while 37 nautical miles south of Laganas
are islands Strofades. Laganas Bay is protected birthplace building nests and
eggs of endangered turtles Karetta-Karetta. The length of the west coast about 34 km, is rocky and steep,
forming caves and coves .. Unlike the east coast looking to Peloponnese length
and 37 km
are sandy beaches
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Zakynthos, which Homer mentions as Yliessa
ie forest, named after the first epoikisti in Zakynthos son of King of Phrygia
Dardania. Then came the the Arkeisios, descendant of the king of Kefalonia
Kefalos, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus. So over the Kingdom of
Zakynthos in Ulysses who participated with twelve ships in the Trojan war.
After his return, however, the murder of the suitors of which twenty were from
the island of Zakynthos, the Zakynthian revolted and won the island from the
Kingdom of Odysseus. In the years following the spirit of the season up in
Zakynthos new government, the Republic.
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