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	RHODES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands and fourth largest of all Greek Islands.
		Rhodes was an important center in the 5th to 3rd centuries BC as part of both the Roman and Byzantine empires.
		The Colossus of Rhodes is said to have been a giant bronze statue, with a lit torch, and was one of the seven wonders of the world, until destroyed by a massive earthquake.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Rhodes (672 words)

	Knights Hospitaller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Knights Hospitaller (also known as Knights of Rhodes, Knights of Malta, Cavaliers of Malta, and Order of St John of Jerusalem) is a tradition which began as a Benedictine nursing Order founded in Jerusalem, following the First Crusade, ca.
		After the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Jerusalem itself fell in 1187), the Knights were confined to the County of Tripoli and when Acre was captured in 1291 the order sought refuge in the Kingdom of Cyprus.
		After seven years of moving from place to place in Europe, the Knights were re-established on Malta in 1530 by the order of Pope Clement VIII and Emperor Charles V of Austria, with the consent of their feudal landlord the King of Sicily.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knights_of_Rhodes (3187 words)

	Medieval Rhodes
		Rhodes was now riding the crest of a wave and growing in importance as a maritime power and a centre of trade and finance.
		During the early months of 1307, the city of Rhodes was stormed by these fresh troops and its defenders fled into the hills, de Villaret had at long last won his sought-after prize and was later to be installed as the first Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes.
		The knights initially had difficulties in adapting to the local Greek element and they were constantly attacked by small raiding parties of Turks, who were not at all happy at the threat posed by the martial monks being so near to their coast.
	www.castles-abbeys.co.uk /Medieval-Rhodes.html (2509 words)

	Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rhodes, Greek Ροδος (Rodos), is the largest of the Dodecanese islands, and easternmost of the major islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea.
		Rhodes is the capital of the District of the Dodecanese and of the Province of Rhodes, which also includes the nearby islands of Symi, Tilos, Halki, and Kastellorizo belong.
		But their rule was also short and Rhodes became a part of the growing empire of Alexander the Great in 332 BC after he defeated the Persians, to the great relief of the citizens of Rhodes.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rhodes.htm (1385 words)

	Rhodes, Knights of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Judy Rhodes kills a pheasant while hunting dog "Nub" looks on as the Cullen Ranch in Quinlan, Texas, on December 30, 2003.
		Rhodes is a member of the "Divas," a group of women in the Dallas area who hu
		Jacquelyne Rhodes, 81, of Kansas City, Missouri, says that changes to traffic signs, including the use of larger letters, have helped her driving, especially at night.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-r1hodes-k1.asp (589 words)

	The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
		The Knights now moved to their possessions in Cyprus where they were additionally awarded the land holdings of the Templars, a rival Order suppressed and practically exterminated by the pope and the French king in 1307-1312.
		The new sultan, henceforth known as Mehmet the Conqueror, was not one to suffer the stranglehold that the Knights' island empire was exercising on the coasts of Turkey, but his priorities were elsewhere and it was not until 1480 that his forces besieged the city.
		These machiavellian intrigues certainly kept Rhodes safe from invasion while Prince Jem was alive, but upon his death and the death of Beyazit the next sultan was free to deal with the Order and, in the end, the reputedly impregnable fortress was taken by the armies of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in December, 1522.
	www.bodrum-museum.com /castle/knights.htm (1711 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Knights of Malta
		In the latter a marked distinction is made between secular knights, externs to the order, who served only for a time, and the professed knights, attached to the order by a perpetual vow, and who alone enjoyed the same spiritual privileges as the other religious.
		This character was accentuated by the fusion of the Hospitallers with the remaining Knights Templars subsequent to the suppression of the latter (1312).
		As to the vow of poverty, the knights were recruited solely from among the nobility, proofs of noble descent being more severely scrutinized than religious dispositions, and naturally, the wealth of the order formed the only motive of these vocations.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07477a.htm (3203 words)

	Knights Hospitaller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rising power of Islam eventually pushed Knights out of their traditional holdings in After the fall of the Kingdom of (Jerusalem itself in 1187) the Knights were confined to the County of Tripoli and when Acre was captured in 1291 the order sought refuge in the of Cyprus.
		On Rhodes now known as the Knights of Rhodes they were forced to become a militarized force fighting especially with the Barbary pirates.
		SMOM is considered to be the direct successor to the medieval Knights Hospitaller known as the Knights of Malta and today operates as a largely and ceremonial organisation.
	www.freeglossary.com /Hospitallers (2214 words)

	THE KNIGHTS ON RHODES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The knights seem to have established their Convent on the island by 1309, soon proceeding to assume the responsibilities of sovereign rulers.
		The majority of the knights serving with the Order in Rhodes and in the galleys were of French origin, as were most of the Grand Masters, with a few Spanish and Italian.
		Faced with little choice, Villiers de l'Isle Adam agreed terms with the Sultan (requiring the Catholic faith to be maintained, the churches not to be profaned and the knights to be able to leave with their weapons, treasure and sacred vessels) and the surviving knights abandoned the island on 1 January 1523.
	www.chivalricorders.org /orders/smom/rhodes.htm (2999 words)

	Rhodes History Greece,The history of RHODES ISLAND in Greece,Dodecanese RHODOS Griechenland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rhodes and the Agarene Muslims settled on the island, in the city and the houses of the Greek orthodox people.
		Rhodes and the Dodecanese were freed and the people celebrated the victory of Greece and the Hellenic Civilization.
		Rhodes and the Dodecanese,constitute the zewel of Europe and the cornerstone of European and WORRLD CIVILIZATION.
	www.faliraki-info.com /historirhodes.htm (711 words)

	Malta History 1000 AD - present
		The proper name of the Knights of St John is the Sovereign and Military Order of the Knights Hospitaler of St John of Jerusalem - the Knights of St John, the Knights of Rhodes, the Knights of Malta, and the Knights Hospitalers.
		The Knights, their luck holding out, were warned by a Turkish deserter about a plan for Senglea to be attacked from the south, and this gave the Order time to build a line of defensive stakes which successfully repulsed the attack.
		The Maltese were one with the Knights, determined, whatever the cost, to be rid of the Turkish invader-though of the nobles there is barely a word in contemporary records; presumably they sat it out in their palaces in Mdina.
	www.carnaval.com /malta/history/knights (2869 words)

	HISTORY AND MYTHS OF RHODES (RODOS) FROM THE PREHISTORIC TIMES TO THE MODERN DAY. TRAVEL, HOLIDAYS, VACATION IN THE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rhodes appears in the recorded history of the Eastern Mediterranean from the time when the island was settled by colonists from Minoan Crete.
		Rhodes, lying as a commercial center between the East and the West, was quick to respond to the new ideas of Christianity.
		Their stay in Rhodes lasted 213 years, until 1522, when, on December 29, the last of the Grand Masters, Villiers de I' Isle Adam, was compelled to surrender the island to Suleiman the Magnificent.
	www.rodos.com /history-myths-rh.htm (2795 words)

	Knights
		The garb of the Knights of St. John was a long fl cloak or robe with a pointed hood, a large Maltese cross in white silk on the left breast.
		The knights, whose object was the subjugation and conversion to the Christian faith of the heathen nations south-east of the Baltic, retained possession of that territory, and eventually became masters of all Prussia, and built the cities of Elbing, Marienburg, Dantric, Konigsherg, ande.
		The knights were given a white tunic and mantle to distinguish them from the Hospitallers, who were arrayed in a fl mantle, and they wore this plain until Eugenius III., in 1146, appointed them to wear a red cross on the left breast, in imitation of the white cross worn by the Hospitallers.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/knights.htm (5180 words)

	The Knights of the Order of Saint John in Poland - A History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Further, a Knight who served for two years or more was to be granted the same privileges with respect to the Order as those of the Captains of the fleet of Saint John and could be short listed for the award of a Commandery.
		Indeed the Teutonic Knights, who built their own state in Prussia, proved to be mighty protectors but also possibly a reason for eviction of the Knights of Saint John from their possessions in Pomerania and Prussia.
		The Knights are also known as Hospitalers or Hospitallers and The Order has been referred to as the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, Order of The Knights of Rhodes, Sovereign and Military Order of The Knights of Malta, Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem.
	www.chivalricorders.org /orders/smom/maltpold.htm (5851 words)

	Knights Hospitalers -> On the Island of Rhodes on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Knights of Rhodes, as they came to be known, maintained their reputation as fighting men.
		The island of Rhodes was an important strategic point, and the Turks on their advance after the capture of Constantinople determined to take it.
		But the knights could not summon the means to resist indefinitely, and in 1522 the grand master Philippe de L'Isle Adam was forced to capitulate.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/knightsh_ontheislandofrhodes.asp (421 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Knights of Rhodes
		Knights of Rhodes, name given to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem from 1309 to 1522.
		The principal town and port of the island, also named Kos, was an important center for learning during the reign of the Egyptian king Ptolemy II.
		Under the Roman Empire Rhodes enjoyed a measure of nominal independence.
	encarta.msn.com /Knights_of_Rhodes.html (148 words)

	eHistory.com: The Place of Danger is My Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Knights of Saint John (The Hospitallers) originated in Jerusalem after the city fell to the Crusading armies in 1099.
		After the fall of Acre in 1291 (which completed the Muslim reconquest of the Crusader territories in the eastern Mediterranean), the Knights were forced to seek out a new base of operations.
		Rhodes is a 540 square mile island that lies off the coast of Turkey (today it is part of Greece.) During the early 1300s Rhodes was under the control of a rogue Byzantine governor and, therefore, could be attacked without fear of repercussions from the Byzantine Emperor.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=30 (645 words)

	FOCUS on MALTA - History
		This is not to say that between the sudden disappearance of the Neolithic culture and the arrival of the Knights nothing happened.
		They withdrew to Rhodes and acted as a shield against the Turks for two centuries until 1522 when Suleiman the Magnificent ousted the Knights from Rhodes.
		The Knights of St. John, coming as they did from the richest families in Europe, couId afford to hire the best taIent available and the buildings of Valletta, its fortifications and the art treasures in its museums and churches, are the work of the best European engineers and artists of the time.
	www.focusmm.com /malta/ma_hist3.htm (780 words)

	Order of St. John, 1291-1522 AD (DBA IV/56ab) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rhodes provided a strategically located base for naval operations in both the Mediterranean and the Aegean that lay directly astride the ocean route that brought iron, lumber and Ghulam slaves from the Black Sea to the Mamluk Egyptians.
		The Knights of Rhodes used their island as a launching pad for raids on Muslim shipping and coastal towns.
		Even as he campaigned in eastern Europe, the Knights of Rhodes and their depredations on his shipping were increasingly a subject of concern to Sultan Mehmet the Conquerer.
	www.fanaticus.org /dba/armies/IV56.html (1423 words)

	Greek Islands - Aegean Islands - Kos
		It was built in the 16th century by the Knights of Rhodes, for the fear of Ottomans, while the buildings and the rampants in it are a bit older.
		Not far away is Kefalos and its devastated Castle, where according to the legend resides the daughter of Hippocrates, transformed to a dragon waiting for the kiss of a Knight that will give her the human look again.
		During Medieval time, Kos was under the possession of the Knights of Rhodes, who also built the Castle of Nerantzia.
	www.islasdelegeo.com /english/islands/kos (965 words)

	WHKMLA : Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes, 1522
		The Order of the Knights Hospitaller (Order oif St. John, Maltese Knights) had participated in the crusades and in 1309 established itself on the island of Rhodes, which it turned into a bulwark of christianity in the continued conflict with Islam (from the mid-14th century onward, the Ottoman Empire).
		Rhodes had withstood Ottoman sieges in 1460 and 1480.
		In 1530 Emperor Charles V. transferred the island of Malta to the Knights Hospitaller.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/16cen/rhodes1522.html (208 words)

	Rhodes Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We recommend that when you're looking for a hotel in Rhodes Town don't worry about getting one right on the beach since it's not the greatest beach as it is fairly rocky and that you would probably be better off ensuring that your hotel has a central location.
		It was under the 213 year rule of these Knights that Rhodes Town acquired its aura of massive walls, impregnable gates, and deep moats.
		The Knights were divided into seven religious orders based on language and the Inns of these orders line the Street of the Knights.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/j/x/jxf17/greece2000 (1367 words)

	The Order of Knights Hospitalers, St. John, Rhodes and Malta
		The Knights of Malta are the militia of the Pope, and are sworn to total obedience by a blood oath which is taken extremely seriously and to the death.
		Those who are presently members of the Knights of Malta must on penalty of death support those policies advocated by the Vatican.
		The Knights are also sworn to instantly forsake everything and everyone and hasten to the aid of the Pope should they be called.
	www.cephasministry.com /masonic_knights.html (876 words)

	rhodes old town accomodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rhodes old town accommodation, medieval city pension, hotel, motel...
		Rhodes is a international tourist center, mosaic of interesting elements; natural beauty, dodecanese mild climate, aegean wonderful sea, beaches faliraki...
		Situated near the palace of knights in the medieval town of Rhodes.
	www.thebestlodginginfo.com /38/rhodes-old-town-accomodation.html (416 words)

	The Knights Hospitallers
		From 1309-1522 they were called the Knights of Rhodes, and after 1530 were (and still are) called the Knights of Malta.
		From then on the were essentially on the defensive, trying to limit the Muslim advance, although they did still escort pilgrims by sea to the Holy Land, and had a foothold on the mainland in Smyrna (which it had helped to capture in 1344) from 1374 until 1402.
		The Palace of the Knights, Rhodes, inside the walls of the medieval town.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/9767/hospitallers.html (1113 words)

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