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Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. General view of the village of Lindos, with the acropolis and beaches, island of Rhodes, Greece. Historically, Rhodes was famous for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The island’s name might be derived from erod, Phoenician for snake, since the island was home to many snakes in antiquity.

The island of Rhodes is shaped like a spearhead, 79. The Rhodian population of fallow deer was found to be genetically distinct in 2005, and to be of urgent conservation concern. On 15 July 2008, Rhodes was struck by a 6. 3 magnitude earthquake causing minor damage to a few old buildings and one death. The South East of the island experiences a significantly warmer climate with Lindos registering for the period 2010-2019 a mean annual temperature of 21.

It has been suggested that this section be split out into another article titled History of Rhodes. The island was inhabited in the Neolithic period although little remains of this culture. In the 16th century BC, the Minoans came to Rhodes. In the 15th century BCE, Mycenaean Greeks invaded. After the Bronze Age collapse, the first renewed outside contacts were with Cyprus. Homer mentions that Rhodes participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Tlepolemus.

In Pindar’s ode, the island was said to be born of the union of Helios the sun god and the nymph Rhodos, and the cities were named for their three sons. The rhoda is a pink hibiscus, native to the island. In the second half of the 8th century BC, the sanctuary of Athena received votive gifts that are markers for cultural contacts: small ivories from the Near East and bronze objects from Syria. At Kameiros on the northwest coast, a former Bronze Age site, where the temple was founded in the 8th century BC, there is another notable contemporaneous sequence of carved ivory figurines.

The Persians invaded and overran the island, but they were in turn defeated by forces from Athens in 478 BC. The Rhodian cities joined the Athenian League. In 408 BC, the cities united to form one territory. They built the city of Rhodes, a new capital on the northern end of the island.

Its regular plan was, according to Strabo, superintended by the Athenian architect Hippodamus. Rhodes then became a part of the growing empire of Alexander the Great in 332 BC, after he defeated the Persians. Three — Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Antigonus — succeeded in dividing the kingdom among themselves. In 305 BC, Antigonus directed his son, Demetrius, to besiege Rhodes in an attempt to break its alliance with Egypt. Throughout the 3rd century BC, Rhodes attempted to secure her independence and her commerce, most especially her virtual control over the grain trade in the eastern Mediterranean. The Rhodians also established their dominance on the shores of Caria across from their island, which became known as the “Rhodian Peraia”.

Rhodes successfully carried on this policy through the course of the third century BC, an impressive achievement for what was essentially a democratic state. By the end of that period, however, the balance of power was crumbling, as declining Ptolemaic power made Egypt an attractive target for Seleucid ambitions. The Senate saw the appeal from Rhodes and her allies as the opportunity to pressure Philip. The Romans withdrew from Greece after the end of the conflict, but the resulting power vacuum quickly drew in Antiochus III and subsequently the Romans. 188 BC with Rome, Rhodes, Pergamon, and other Roman-allied Greek states defeated the Seleucids and their allies, the last Mediterranean power that might even vaguely threaten Roman dominance. Rhodes remained scrupulously neutral during the war, but in the view of hostile elements in the Senate she had been a bit too friendly with the defeated King Perseus.

Some actually proposed declaring war on the island republic, but this was averted. In 164 BC, Rhodes became a “permanent ally” of Rome, which was essentially a reduction to client state of nominal but meaningless independence. After surrendering its independence, Rhodes became a cultural and educational center for Roman noble families. It was especially noted for its teachers of rhetoric, such as Hermagoras and the unknown author of Rhetorica ad Herennium.