Annaschnitfink's Fotothing

Dear FT-friends:
these last four weeks I spent on the beautiful Greek island of Kos. I explored the island by bus, by foot and by bike and as a true FT-er I made lots of pictures.

The above one I made in the harbour of Kos City. In the background you can see the ruins of what is called the 'Castle', a memory from the times of the Knights of St. John. Further away some mountains situated on the Turkish coast are visible.

Source: Wikipedia
Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Cos. It measures 40 kilometres (25 mi) by 8 kilometres (5.0 mi), and is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. The island has both fertile plains and mountainous highlands with a population of 30,947. It comprises three municipalities: Kos, the administrative center and largest town (pop. 17,890), Dikaio, and Irakleides.

Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed. Following the lead of its great neighbour, Rhodes, Kos generally displayed a friendly attitude towards the Romans; in 53 AD it was made a free city. The island was later conquered by the Venetians, who then sold it to the Knights Hospitaller of Rhodes (the Knights of St John) in 1315. Two hundred years later the Knights faced the threat of a Turkish invasion and abandoned the island to the Ottoman Empire in 1523. The Ottomans ruled Kos for 400 years until it was transferred to Italy in 1912. In World War II, the island was taken over by Germany until 1945, when it became a protectorate of the United Kingdom, who ceded it to Greece in 1947.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kos