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Samos

 

Contents

• Flags

• Meaning/origin of the flag

• Map

• Numbers and Facts

• History

• Origin of the Country's Name



Flags

Flagge Fahne flag National flag national flag Samos Sámos Kato Vathy Limin Vatheos
Flag of Samos,
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Source, by: Wikipedia (D)




Flagge Fahne flag National flag national flag Samos Sámos Kato Vathy Limin Vatheos
Variant of a contemporary lexicon,
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Flagge Fahne flag Flagge Fahne flag Fürst Prince Samos Sámos Kato Vathy Limin Vatheos
Flag of the Prince,
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Source, by: Wikipedia (D)



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Meaning/origin of the flag

The flag of Samos contains first of all the Greek symbolism of the white cross and reminds in this way of the Greek cross-flag. But the two upper fields of the qaurter are red and remind distantly of the Turkish flag (the island stood nominally under Turkish supremacy until 1908), naturally deleting the Islamic crescent.

Source: Volker Preuß

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Map

Location:

Source: Freeware, University of Texas Libraries,
modyfied by: Volker Preuß

Map of the country:
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Numbers and Facts

Area: 184 square miles

Inhabitants: 54.830 (1900)

Religions: mostly Greek Orthodox Christians

Density of Population: 297 inh./sq.mi. (1900)

Capital: Chora, later Vathy

official Language: New Greek

Currency: Ottoman currency

Source: Wikipedia (DE), Wikipedia (EN)

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History

3000 B.C. · first settlement

ca. 520 B.C. · Persian

ca. 479 B.C. · Greek

ca. 387 B.C. · Persian

ca. 366 B.C. · Greek

84 B.C. · Roman conquest

395 · at the partition of the Roman Empire Samos comes to the East Roman Empire (Byzantium)

1304–1329 · colony of Genova City

1346–1475 · colony of Genova City

1479 · Turkish occupation, to the Ottoman Empire

16th cent. · internal self government

1771–1774 · Russian

1821 · Greek national revolt

1830 · given back to Ottoman Empire

11th of Dec. 1832 · Foundation of the to the Ottoman Empire tributary Principality of Samos

1908 · Anti-Turkish revolt in Samos

May 1912 · murder of the prince, withdrawal of Turkish troops

11th of Nov. 1912 · annexation of Samos to the Kingdom of Greece

1941–1945 · successively occupied by Italian, British and German troops

Source: Wikipedia (D), Wikipedia (EN)

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Origin of the Country's Name

The Greek name "Samos" goes back to the word for a "coastal hill".

Source: Handbuch der geographischen Namen

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