rhodes

     

Doecanese Prefecture

Trivia about rhodes

  • This "colossal" Greek island is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands
  • As the highest peak, 4,000-foot Ataviros could be called the colossus of this Greek island
  • This island's harbor of Mandraki was once guarded by a colossal 120'-high statue
  • This capital of the Greek department of Dodecanese is on the island once home to a colossus
  • This "colossal" island is the largest in Greece's Dodecanese archipelago
  • A colossal ancient wonder collapsed following an earthquake in the 3rd century B.C.
  • Because of his work there, you could call the astronomer Hipparchus "the colossus of" this island
  • This Greek island was named for either the roses or the snakes that proliferated there in ancient times
  • This Greek island, once home to a 105-foot statue of Helios, lies 12 miles off the coast of Turkey
  • In his early 20s, Julius Caesar traveled to this "colossal" island to study rhetoric under Molon