Coordinates: 40°41′N 24°39′E

Thasos
Thasos or Thassos (Greek: Θάσος, Thásos) is a Greek island,
geographically part of the North Aegean Sea, but Thasos
administratively part of the Kavala regional unit, Macedonia. Περιφερειακή Ενότητα / Δήμος

It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by

Θάσου
area. Thasos is also the name of the largest town of the island
(officially known as Limenas Thasou, "Port of Thasos"), Regional unit
situated at the northern side, opposite the mainland and about
10 kilometres (6 miles) from Keramoti. Thassos island is
known from ancient times for its termae making it a climatic
and balneoclimateric resort area.

Thasos's economy relies on timber from its forests, marble

quarries, olive oil, and honey. Tourism has also become
important since the 1960s, although not to the level of other
Greek islands.

Limenas (port) of Thasos, capital of the

Contents island

History
Mythology
Prehistory
Antiquity
Middle Ages
Ottoman era
Archaeological discovery
Modern era Thasos within East Macedonia and
Thrace
Administration Coordinates: 40°41′N 24°39′E
Geography Country Greece
Geology Region East Macedonia
Mining history and Thrace
Economy Capital Thasos

Localities Area
 • Total 380.097 km2
Historical population
(146.756 sq mi)
Sights Elevation 1,205 m (3,953 ft)
Notable people Population (2011)
Notes  • Total 13,770
References  • Density 36/km2 (94/sq mi)

External links Time zone UTC+2 (EET)

 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal codes 640 04
 Area codes 25930
History
Car plates ΚΒ
Website [Link] (ht
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Staphylus (Ancient Greek: Στάφυλος), the beloved son of
god Dionysus, lived in Thasos.[1]

Prehistory

Lying close to the coast of Eastern Macedonia, Thasos

was inhabited from the Palaeolithic period onwards,[2] but
the earliest settlement to have been explored in detail is
that at Limenaria, where remains from the Middle and
Late Neolithic relate closely to those found at the
mainland's Drama plain. In contrast, Early Bronze Age Thasos (from West)
remains on the island align it with the Aegean culture of
the Cyclades and Sporades, to the south; at Skala
Sotiros[3] for example, a small settlement was encircled by a strongly built defensive wall. Even earlier
activity is demonstrated by the presence of large pieces of 'megalithic' anthropomorphic stelai built into
these walls, which, so far, have no parallels in the Aegean area.

There is then a gap in the archaeological record until the end of the Bronze Age c 1100 BC, when the first
burials took place at the large cemetery of Kastri in the interior of the island.[4][5] Here built tombs covered
with small mound of earth were typical until the end of the Iron Age. In the earliest tombs were a small
number of locally imitated Mycenaean pottery vessels, but the majority of the hand-made pottery with
incised decoration reflects connections eastwards with Thrace and beyond.

Antiquity

The island was colonised at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted

probably by its gold mines; they founded a temple to the god
Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as "Tyrian Heracles", and
whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's
Hellenization.[6] The temple still existed in the time of
Herodotus.[7] An eponymous Thasos or Thasus, son of Phoenix (or
of Agenor, as Pausanias reported) was said to have been the leader
of the Phoenicians, and to have given his name to the island.[8] Ancient Agora of Thasos

Around 650 BC, or a little earlier, Greeks from Paros founded a

colony on Thasos.[9] A generation or so later, the poet Archilochus, a descendant of these colonists, wrote
of casting away his shield during a minor war against an indigenous Thracian tribe, the Saians.[10] Thasian
power, and sources of its wealth, extended to the mainland, where the Thasians owned gold mines even
more valuable than those of the island; their combined annual revenues amounted to between 200 and 300
talents. Herodotus says that the best mines on the island were those opened by the Phoenicians on the east
side of the island, facing Samothrace. Archilochus described Thasos as "an ass's backbone crowned with
wild wood." The island's capital, Thasos, had two harbours. Besides its gold mines, the wine, nuts and
marble of Thasos were well known in antiquity.[8] Thasian wine was quite famous. Thasian coins had the
head of the wine god Dionysos on one side and bunches of grape of the other.[11]
Thasos was important during the Ionian Revolt against Persia. After the capture of Miletus (494 BC)
Histiaeus, the Ionian leader, laid siege. The attack failed, but, warned by the danger, the Thasians employed
their revenues to build war ships and strengthen their fortifications. This excited the suspicions of the
Persians, and Darius compelled them to surrender their ships and pull down their walls.[12] After the defeat
of Xerxes the Thasians joined the Delian League; but afterwards, on account of a difference about the
mines and marts on the mainland, they revolted.[8]

The Athenians defeated them by sea, and, after a siege that lasted
more than two years, took the capital, Thasos, probably in 463 BC,
and compelled the Thasians to destroy their walls, surrender their
ships, pay an indemnity and an annual contribution (in 449 BC this
was 21 talents, from 445 BC about 30 talents), and resign their
possessions on the mainland. In 411 BC, at the time of the
oligarchical revolution at Athens, Thasos again revolted from silver tritartemorion struck in Thasos
Athens and received a Lacedaemonian governor; but in 407 BC the circa 411-404 BC. Satyr on the
partisans of Lacedaemon were expelled, and the Athenians under obverse and dolphins on the reverse
Thrasybulus were admitted.[8]

After the Battle of Aegospotami (405 BC), Thasos again fell into the hands of the Lacedaemonians under
Lysander who formed a decarchy there; but the Athenians must have recovered it, for it formed one of the
subjects of dispute between them and Philip II of Macedonia. In the embroilment between Philip V of
Macedonia and the Romans, Thasos submitted to Philip, but received its freedom at the hands of the
Romans after the Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC), and it was still a "free" state in the time of Pliny.[8]

Middle Ages

Thasos was part of the Eastern Roman Empire, now known as the
Byzantine Empire, from 395 on. According to the 6th century
Synecdemus, it belonged to the province of Macedonia Prima,
although the 10th century De thematibus claims that it was part of
Thracia.[13] The island was a major source of marble until the
disruption of the Slavic invasions in the late 6th/7th centuries, and
several churches from Late Antiquity have been found on it.[13]
The island remained in Byzantine hands for most of the Middle
Ages. It functioned as a naval base in the 13th century, under its Byzantine church in Thasos
own doux, and came briefly under the rule of the Genoese Tedisio
Zaccaria in 1307–13. Returning to Byzantine control, its bishopric
was raised to an archdiocese by Manuel II Palaiologos. Thasos was captured by the Genoese Gattilusi
family c. 1434, who surrendered it to the Ottoman Empire in 1455.[13] Following the Ottoman conquest of
the Despotate of the Morea in 1460, the former Despot Demetrios Palaiologos received lands on the
island.[13]

It is related that the Byzantine Greek Saint Joannicius the Great (752–846) in one of his miracles freed the
island of Thasos from a multitude of snakes.

Ottoman era

Thasos was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1456.[14] Under the Ottoman rule, the island was
known as Ottoman Turkish: ‫ طاشوز‬Taşöz. Between 1770 and 1774, the island was briefly occupied by a
Russian fleet. By this time the population of Thassos had gravitated to the inland villages as a protective
measure.[15] Nearly 50 years later, a revolt against Ottoman rule arose in 1821, at the outbreak of the Greek
War of Independence, led by Hatzigiorgis Metaxas, but it failed. The island had been given in 1813 by the
Sultan Mahmud II to Muhammad Ali of Egypt as a personal fiefdom, as a reward for his intervention
against the Wahhabites. Egyptian rule was relatively benign (by some accounts Muhammad Ali had either
been born or spent his infancy on Thasos) and the island became prosperous, until 1908, when the New
Turk regime asserted Turkish control. The island was a kaza (sub-province), lastly of the Sanjak of Drama
in the Salonica Vilayet, until the Balkan Wars. On 20 October 1912 during the First Balkan War, Greek
navy invaded Thasos and annexed it into Greece after more than 350 years of Ottoman Turkish rule.

Archaeological discovery

In their issue of 23 November 1902, The New York Times (p. 5), erroneously reported that on the island of
Thasos, the British archaeologist Theodore Bent had discovered the tomb of Cassius, who slew himself
after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC. Cassius was buried by Brutus on Thasos,
where the army of the patriots of the Republic had established its base of supplies. [16][17] Theodore and
Mabel Bent did indeed make extensive excavations on the island between March and May 1887, but they
did not discover the tomb of Cassius; there is no reference to such a find in any of his publications,[18] nor
in his wife’s journals, and, in any event, by 1902 Bent had been dead five years. The solution to the
misattribution must lie in the author of the American newspaper article picking up on a brief report in the
English press about recent discoveries on the island. This report, itself taken from an account in the Berliner
Tageblatt, makes a reference to finds “of a number of sarcophagi” on the “island of Thasos, which some
years ago yielded rich archaeological results to Mr. Theodore Bent”.[19]

However the Bents did discover an 'Arch of Caracalla',[20] in 1887, and tried to remove from its extensive,
collapsed remains a statue of Flavia Vibia Sabina, but were prevented from so doing by the Turkish
Director of Antiquities, Osman Hamdi Bey; this statue is now in Istanbul’s Archaeological Museum.[21][22]
A few inconsequential finds made by the Bents on Thasos are in the British Museum.

Researchers from the Adelphi University discovered in the Paliokastro on Thasos ten skeletal remains, four
women and six men, who were buried between the fourth and seventh centuries A.D. Their bones
illuminated their physical activities, traumas, and even a complex form of brain surgery. According to the
researchers: "The very serious trauma cases sustained by both males and females had been treated
surgically or orthopedically by a very experienced physician/surgeon with great training in trauma care. We
believe it to have been a military physician". The researchers were impressed by the complexity of the brain
surgical operation.[23]

Modern era

The writer Vassilis Vassilikos, famous for his novel "Z", which was
later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film was born in
Thasos in 1934. He later became Director General of Greek Public
Television, and Greece's ambassador to UNESCO.

During the Axis occupation (April 1941 – October 1944) Thasos,

along with the region of East Macedonia and Thrace, was assigned
by the Nazis to their Bulgarian allies. The Bulgarian government Limenaria in 1950s
renamed the island "Tasos" and closed its schools. Thasos'
mountainous terrain facilitated resistance activity against the
occupation forces, mainly led by the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM). After the end of the war
and the withdrawal of Axis troops in 1944, the island was caught up in the Greek Civil War. The leader of
the communist naval forces in the civil war, Sarantis Spintzos, was a native of Thasos.[24] Skirmishes and
communist guerilla attacks continued on Thasos until 1950, almost a year after the main hostilities were
over on the mainland.

In the post-war decades, another native of Thasos, Costas Tsimas, was to attain national recognition; a
friend of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, he was appointed Director of the National Intelligence
Service, the first civilian to hold that post.

Thasos, the capital, is now informally known as Limenas, or "the port". It is served by a ferry route to and
from Keramoti a port close to Kavala International Airport, and has the shortest possible crossing to the
island.
Scala Prinos 20 km south of Thassos town is served by a ferry route to and from Kavala.

Administration
Thasos is a separate regional unit of the East Macedonia and Thrace region, and the only municipality of
the regional unit. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Thasos was created
out of part of the former Kavala Prefecture.[25] The municipality, unchanged at the Kallikratis reform,
includes a few uninhabited islets besides the main island Thasos and has an area of 380.097 km2 .[26] The
province of Thasos (Greek: Επαρχία Θάσου) was one of the provinces of the Kavala Prefecture. It had the
same territory as the present municipality.[27] It was abolished in 2006.

Geography
Thasos island is located in the northern Aegean sea approximately
7  km (4  mi) from the northern mainland and 20 kilometres (12
miles) south-east of Kavala, and is of generally rounded shape,
without deep bays or significant peninsulas. The terrain is
mountainous but not particularly rugged, rising gradually from
coast to centre. The highest peak is Ypsario (Ipsario), at 1,205
metres (3,953 feet), somewhat east of centre. Pine forest covers
much of the island's eastern slopes.

Historically, the island's population was chiefly engaged in

agriculture and stockbreeding, and established villages inland, some
of them connected via stairways (known as skalas) to harbors at the
shore. The local population gradually migrated towards these Thasos from space, April 1993
shoreline settlements as tourism began to develop as an important
source of income. Thus, there are several "paired villages" such as
Maries–Skala Maries, with the former inland and the latter on the coast.

Geology

The island is formed mainly by gneisses, schists and marbles of the Rhodope Massif. Marble sequences
corresponding to the Falacron Marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses, are up to 500m thick and are
separated from the underlying gneisses by a transition zone about 300 m thick termed the T-zone consisting
of alternances of dolomitic and calcitic marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses.

The rocks have undergone several periods of regional metamorphism, to at least upper amphibolite facies,
and there was a subsequent phase of retrograde metamorphism. At least three periods of regional
deformation have been identified, the most important being large scale isoclinal folding with axes aligned
 north-west. The T-zone is deformed and is interpreted by some authors
as a regional thrust of pre-major folding age. There are two major high
angle fault systems aligned north-west and north-east respectively. A
large low-angle thrust cuts the gneiss, schist and marble sequence at
the south-west corner of the island, probably indicating an
overthrusting of the Serbomacedonian Massif onto the Rodope Massif.

The Late Miocene oil-producing Nestos-Prinos basin is located

between Thassos island and the mainland. The floor of the basin is
around 1,500 m deep off the Thassos coast (South Kavala ridge;
Proedrou, 1988) and up to 4.000–5.000 m in the axial sector between
Thassos and the mainland. The basin is filled with Late Miocene-
Pliocene sediments, including ubiquitously repeated evaporite layers of
rock salt and anhydrite-dolomite that alternate with sandstones,
Geological and Metallogenic map conglomerates, black shales, and uraniferous coal measures (Proedrou,
of Thasos island. 1979, 1988; Taupitz, 1985). Stratigraphically equivalent rocks on the
mainland are clastic sediments with coal beds, marine to brackish
fluvial units and travertines.

Mining history

The earliest mining on the island has been dated to around 13,000 BC, when paleolithic miners dug a shaft
at the site of the modern-era Tzines iron mine for the extraction of limonitic ochre.[28] Mining for base and
precious metals started around the 7th century BC with the Phoenicians, followed in the 4th century by the
Greeks, then the Romans. These later mines were both open-cast and underground, mostly to exploit the
island's numerous karst hosted calamine deposits for their lead and silver. Gold, copper and iron were also
found; the Byzantines quarried marble on the island.

In the early 20th century, mining companies (most notably the Speidel mining company) exploited the
island's zinc-lead rich calamine ores, with a yield of around 2 million tonnes, and a processing plant at
Limenaria produced zinc oxide. Iron ore was mined on a significant scale from 1954 to 1964, with a yield
of around 3 million tonnes. Since 1964, surveys have established the existence of a deep-level zinc-lead
deposit, but the only mining activity on the island has been marble quarrying.


Lead-zinc mine at Iron mine of Gold mine Iron mine at Tzines,

Sellada Koupanada with paleolithic
mine-tunnel

Marble quarry of
Alyki

Economy
By far the most important economic activity is tourism. The main
agricultural products on the island are honey, almonds, walnuts,
olives (famously Throuba olives), and olive oil, as well as wine,
sheep, goat herding, and fishing.[29] Other industries are lumber
and mining which includes lead, zinc, and marble, especially in the
Panagia area where one of the mountains near the Thracian Sea has
a large marble quarry. The marble quarries in the south (in the area
of Aliki), now abandoned, were mined during ancient times.
Shiploading in Limenaria during the
1950s
Localities
Towns and villages with over 100 inhabitants (2011 census) are:

Kallirachi (452)
Koinyra (105)
Limenaria (2,471) Panagia village
Maries (158)
Ormos Prinou (156)
Panagia (725)
Potamia (1,383)
Potos (815)
 Prinos (1,211)
Rachoni (446)
Skala Kallirachis (566)
Skala Marion (379)
Skala Rachoniou (283)
Skala Sotiros (376)
Thasos (Limenas Thasou) (3,234)
Theologos (636)

Historical population
Year Town Municipality
1981 2,312 –
1991 2,600 –
2001 3,140 13,765 Traditional village of Theologos
2011 3,240 13,770

Sights
Archaeological Museum of
Thasos and the nearby
ancient agora in Thasos town
Acropolis of Thasos and
ancient theater near Thasos
town
Polygnotos Vagis Municipal
Museum in Potamia
Folklore Museum of Limenaria Polygnotos Vagis Municipal Museum
Archangel Michael's in Potamia
Monastery
Saint Panteleimon Monastery:
it was built in 1843 and
became monastery in 1987.
Kouros at the Archaeological According to inhabitants of
Museum of Thasos Thassos, someone wanted to
build it in favor of Saint
Panteleimon. The workers
started the building at a location, but the next day when
they wanted to continue with the construction, the part Paradisos beach
they had built was found destroyed and their tools were
missing. The same happened on the following days.
One day they saw footprints on the ground and followed them until they found their tools
nearby a natural spring. Finally, they built the monastery at that spot.
Monastery of the Assumption
Kastro: its foundation year is unknown. This village must have been created during the years
of Frankish domination.
Krambousa Isle: it can be found across the coast of Skala Potamia. The thick vegetation
makes it impossible to explore all parts of it. It is full with a special wild vegetable called
 "Krambi". The little church of Saint Daniel is located at the top of the hill. The inhabitants
visit this church on the day of the saint every year.
Mount Ypsario (Ipsario) 1,203 meters (3,947 ft)
Artificial Lake in Maries

Notable people
Archilochos (7th century BC), warrior and poet.
Aglaophon (6th–5th century BC), painter, teacher and father of Polygnotus and
Aristophon[30]
Hegemon of Thasos, comedian, inventor of parody
Leodamas (4th century BC), mathematician
Neseus of Thasos, painter
Polygnotos Vagis (1892–1965), Thasos-born US sculptor
Polygnotus (mid-5th century BC), painter
Stesimbrotos (c. 470 BC – c. 420 BC), sophist
Theagenes of Thasos (480 BC) Olympic boxer
Pankratiast (476 BC), Olympic runner
Androsthenes of Thasos (4th century BC), Admiral serving under Alexander the Great.
Vassilis Vassilikos (1934), poet and author.

Notes
1. Suda, § th.59 ([Link]
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Archaeological Institute of Sofia, Kazanluk, (in press)
3. Κουκούλη Χ.- Χρυσανθάκη, "Ανασκαφή Σκάλας Σωτήρος Θάσου", Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο
στη Μακεδονία και Θράκη, 1, ((1987), 1988, 391–406, 2 (1988), 1991, 421–431, 3 (1989),
1992, 507–520, 4 (1990), 1993, 531–545).
4. Chaidou Koukouli-Chrysanthaki: Πρωτοιστορική Θάσος. Τα νεκροταφεία του οικισμού
Κάστρι, Μερος Α και Β, Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού, Δυμοσιέυματα του αρχαιολογικού Δελτίου
Αρ. 45, ISBN 960-214-107-7
5. Agelarakis A., "Reflections of the Human Condition in Prehistoric Thasos: Aspects of the
Anthropological and Palaeopathological Record from the Settlement of Kastri". Actes du
Colloque International Matières prèmieres et Technologie de la Préhistoire à nos jours,
Limenaria, Thasos. The French Archaeological Institute in Greece, 1999. 447–468.
6. Pausanias, 5.25.12. "The Thasians, who are Phoenicians by descent, and sailed from Tyre,
and from Phoenicia generally, together with Thasos, the son of Agenor, in search of Europa,
dedicated at Olympia a Herakles, the pedestal as well as the image being of bronze. The
height of the image is ten cubits, and he holds a club in his right hand and a bow in his left.
They told me in Thasos that they used to worship the same Heracles as the Tyrians, but that
afterwards, when they were included among the Greeks, they adopted the worship of
Heracles the son of Amphitryon."
 7. Herodotus. Histories, 2.44. "In the wish to get the best information that I could on these
matters, I made a voyage to Tyre in Phoenicia, hearing there was a temple of Heracles at
that place, very highly venerated. I visited the temple, and found it richly adorned with a
number of offerings, among which were two pillars, one of pure gold, the other of smaragdos,
shining with great brilliancy at night. In a conversation I held with the priests, I inquired how
long their temple had been built, and found by their answer that they, too, differed from the
Hellenes. They said that the temple was built at the same time that the city was founded, and
that the foundation of the city took place 2,300 years ago. In Tyre I remarked another temple
where the same god was worshipped as the Thasian Heracles. So I went on to Thasos,
where I found a temple of Heracles, which had been built by the Phoenicians who colonised
that island when they sailed in search of Europa. Even this was five generations earlier than
the time when Heracles, son of Amphitryon, was born in Hellas. These researches show
plainly that there is an ancient god Heracles; and my own opinion is that those Hellenes act
most wisely who build and maintain two temples of Heracles, in the one of which the
Heracles worshipped is known by the name of Olympian, and has sacrifice offered to him as
an immortal, while in the other the honours paid are such as are due to a hero."
8. Chisholm 1911, p. 727.
9. AJ Graham,"The Foundation of Thasos", The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 73
(1978), pp. 61-98.
10. Zafeiropoulou F., A., Agelarakis, "Warriors of Paros". Archaeology 58.1(2005): 30–35.
11. Hugh Johnson, Vintage: The Story of Wine pg 39. Simon and Schuster 1989
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and Maritime Activities in Classical Period Thasos Island", Mediterranean Archaeology and
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21. Gustave Mendel, Catalogue des Sculptures Grecques, Romaines et Byzantines I, 347–348,
no.137 (Constantinople, 1912).
22. “We also went to the museum and saw our statues exposed to the weather, planted in the
mud and really we carefully looked and saw nothing so good of their kind. No wonder Hamdi
won’t give them up.” Mabel Bent’s diary, January 1888, Istanbul, The Travel Chronicles of
Mrs J. Theodore Bent, Vol. 1, p.230 (Oxford, 2006).
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