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Rhodes (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 36 26 27 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 36.4408 decimal degrees |
Long: 028 13 21 E degrees minutes |
Long: 28.2225 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located at isolated northern tip of island; designed by Hippodamus of Miletus and founded in 5th cen. BC; resisted attack by Macedonians, then citizens erected the huge bronze statue of Helios, known as the Colossus of Rhodes, later destroyed by earthquake. |
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Ródhos (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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Rhodos (C,V)
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Rodos (C,V)
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Rodi (C,O)
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Rhodes (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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Ródos (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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Ρόδος (NA,V,Greek,U)
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רודוס (C,U,Hebrew )
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Rhodus (H,V)
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Sporades (regional division) (P) |
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Rhodes (island) (P) |
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Rhodes (inhabited place) (P) |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded in 408 BC |
town (C) |
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port (C) |
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religious center (C) |
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was center of Knights Hospitalers in Crusades from ca. 1280 |
regional capital (C) |
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