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	INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' & TRANSLATORS' CENTER OF RHODES. GREECE
		Rhodes is now a mere provincial city; the island takes on an agricultural and animal farming character, as the few historical sources of the period tell us, since attention has turned to the administrative centre of the empire.
		Rhodes belonged to the Eparchy of the Islands (or the Eparchy of the Cyclades) during this period and later it belonged to the nautical province of the "Karavisians", which was renamed as the province of the "Kiviraeotes", taking its name from the city of Kivira of Pamphylia.
		Rhodes was able to maintain the semi autonomous administration and community organisation that it had during the Byzantine period to a great degree under the feudal system imposed during the Knights’ period.
	www.literarycentre.gr /english/rhodes/rhodeshistory.html (5634 words)

	Fortification and Siege Warfare - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Finally the siege artillery was close enough to the rampart to concentrate its breaching fire against a selected point, while underground galleries were driven forward under the glacis and the rampart and then charged with gunpowder.
		A humane individual, he developed an etiquette for siege warfare in which it became customary for the besieger, having breached the rampart, to summon the commander of the fortification to surrender; such surrender was considered no disgrace when further resistance would lead only to needless loss of life.
		The raising of the siege of Stalingrad by Soviet counterattack became the historical symbol of the German defeat.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761579203__1/Fortification_and_Siege_Warfare.html (2007 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Siege warfare entails the capture of forts and fortified cities.
		Siege was still largely a waiting game, and a fortress city with a harbor (such as Athens) could almost never be captured without being completely blockaded, by both warships at sea and troops on land.
		The siege tower was a wooden structure, built as tall as the enemy wall and used as a kind of multistory armored car, with catapults set on internal parapets and sighted through portholes.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0519 (854 words)

	The Diadochi: The siege of Rhodes
		The city of Rhodes had a powerful navy and enjoyed the finest government in Greece, and so was an object of competition between the dynasts and kings, as each sought to win it over to his friendship.
		Rhodes was a mercantile state, that benefited from peace.
		The most famous statue erected after the siege was not dedicated to these kings, but to the Sun: the famous Colossus of Rhodes.
	www.livius.org /di-dn/diadochi/diadochi_t06.html (518 words)

	Rob S. Rice USNA Eleventh Naval History Symposium Paper for Collected Volume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was in the course of research into the navy of Rhodes that the mechanism first came to this author's attention, and it was that research and knowledge of extant flaws in earlier scholarship that allows this assessment of the significance of the device and Price's reconstruction.
		Rhodes was a center for the construction and use of antiquity's heaviest and most intricate catapults.
		In the light of the ancient literary evidence and the physical existence of the Antikythera mechanism, it is necessary for scholars of the period to discard the idea that Rhodes and her economy were ruined by the Roman actions concerning Delos.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rrice/usna_pap.html (3287 words)

	WHKMLA : Siege of Rhodes, 1480
		In the 1470es, the state of the Knights Hospitallers (Knights of St. John) became exposed to Ottoman raids; in 1470 the population of the island of Telos, in 1475 the population of the island of Halki were evacuated to Rhodes.
		Rhodes, commanded by Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson, was besieged by an Ottoman force from May to July 28th 1480; the Ottoman fleet, having failed to accomplish her goal, then moved on to Otranto (Kingdom of Naples).
		The Knights of St. John held on to Rhodes and the neighbouring Dodecanese islands until it fell to the Ottomans in 1522.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/15cen/rhodes1480.html (199 words)

	Rhodes Photo Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The reason for the statue of Helios was because Rhodes of was the main center of worship for the cult of Helios.
		It was on Rhodes, located on the outer edges of the Greek empire that the sun (and thus Helios) rose each morning.
		The knights took up the fight against the Turks and as a result the island of Rhodes was held siege in 1444 and 1480 but the knights held out, partially from a new improvement to their defenses, St. Nickolas' tower.
	www.angelfire.com /art2/greekislands/rhodes/index.html (690 words)

	Great Siege
		After a long war the Knights won the island of Rhodes; from here they were able to knock hard at the Turkish infidel, enhance their reputation as defenders of the Christian faith, and become recognized as a bulwark to keep Europe safe.
		Malta, a less attractive island than Rhodes, was at least a self-contained, defendable unit; but to hold Tripoli as well at that time would have meant stretching their small forces beyond their capacity.
		The siege at Rhodes had taught the Knights to leave the countryside bare of people, animals and crops, and turn the fortifiable points into war cities, fully stocked with food, water and ammunition.
	www.pynchon.pomona.edu /v/siege.html (1956 words)

	In Fronteria Barbarorum: Waiting for the Turks on late Medieval Malta
		In July 1480, while the siege of Rhodes reached its climax with huge losses on both sides, and Europe’s attention was fixed on that defiant island, Mohammed’s grand vizier Ahmed Pasha landed with his army at Otranto.
		While the siege of Rhodes was raised on August 17, the Turks concentrated their efforts on the Adriatic city, taking it the day after.
		On 28 July 1480, while the Turkish siege of Rhodes reached its climax, the town council on Malta discussed a piece of alarming news sent to them by the Viceroy on 19 July from Palermo comu parti di la armata di lu Turcu fa stima [p.121] conferirisi in quista insola.
	melitahistorica.250free.com /files/hw94infr.html (4521 words)

	§3. Relaxation of the Laws against Dramatic Entertainments towards the Close of Oliver Cromwell’s ...
		This was the celebrated Siege of Rhodes, “made a representation by the art of prospective in scenes and the story sung in recitative music,” presented in August, 1656.
		The Siege of Rhodes is often described as the first English play to employ scenery and the first in which an actress appeared on the English stage.
		Coleman, who “played” the part of Ianthe in The Siege had already sung in The First Day’s Entertainment and was chosen, doubtless, in both instances for her voice rather than for her acting.
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	The Siege of Rhodes information - Search.com
		The Siege of Rhodes is an opera written by the impresario William Davenant, with a score by five composers, including Henry Lawes and Matthew Locke.
		The Siege of Rhodes was first performed in a small private theatre constructed at Davenant's home Rutland House in 1656.
		The plot was based on the siege of Rhodes which occurred in 1480 when the island — at the time, full of evacuated citizens of Telos and Halki — was besieged by the Ottoman fleet of Mehmed II.
	search.com.com /reference/The_Siege_of_Rhodes (315 words)

	Rhodes Greece - The Colossus of Rhodes (Rhodos) Greece - a wonder of the ancient world
		The colossus of Rhodes, as it was - incorrectly - imagined standing at the entrance or Mandraki harbour.
		When Demetrios was defeated, he abandoned all his siege machinery on Rhodes.
		Given the height of the statue and the width of the harbour mouth, this picture is rather impossible than improbable.
	www.rhodesguide.com /rhodes/colossus_rhodes.php (570 words)

	Rhodes island Greece - Rhodes hotels, Rodos, Rhodes,colossus of rhodes, rhodes tours, map of Rhodes island, hotels in ...
		Colossus of Rhodes is an enormous statue dedicated to the god of sun, Helios, and is considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World by the ancients.
		Much of the material for the construction of the Colossus was melted down from the machines and tools that Demetrius I left behind after his unsuccessful siege of Rhodes.
		The statue stood for only 56 years until Rhodes was hit by an earthquake in 226 BC Ptolemy III intended to reconstruct the Colossus.
	www.rhodes-hotels.us /landmarks/Colosus-of-Rhodes.asp (196 words)

	History of the Order of St. John
		The Siege of Malta in 1565 began in May with the arrival of 40,000 Ottoman Turks led by Dragut, the Governor of Tripoli.
		The Siege of Malta, 1565; translated from Spanish by Henry Alexander Balbi; with a foreword by Harry Luke (Copenhagen, 1961).
		As was the case in Rhodes, the city was split amongst the tongues.
	www.hmml.org /centers/malta/Hospitallers.html (1689 words)

	Siege of Rhodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Siege of Rhodes (305 BC/304 BC) is one of the most famous sieges in ancient history.
		Demetrius, son of Antigonus I, besieged Rhodes in an attempt to break its alliance with Egypt.
		The citizens of Rhodes were successful in resisting Demetrius; after one year he abandoned the siege and signed a peace agreement (304 BC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes (201 words)

	Protogenes
		On one picture, the Ialysus, he spent seven years; on another, the Satyr, he worked continuously during the siege of Rhodes by Demetrius Poliorcetes (305/304 BC) notwithstanding that the garden in which he painted was in the middle of the enemy's camp.
		Ialysus was a local hero, the founder of the town of the same name in the island of Rhodes, and probably he was represented as a huntsman.
		The picture painted during the siege of Rhodes consisted of a satyr leaning idly against a pillar on which was a figure of a partridge, so life-like that ordinary spectators saw nothing but it.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Protogenes.html (960 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 siege of 1522, however, resulted in the Hospitallers withdrawal from Rhodes.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/9767/hospitallers.html (1113 words)

	Siege of Rhodes (1522) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siege of Rhodes of 1522 was the second and ultimately successful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to expel the Knights of Rhodes from their island stronghold and thereby secure Ottoman control of the Eastern Mediterranean.
		Expecting a new Ottoman attack on Rhodes, he continued to strengthen the city's fortifications, work that had begun after the Ottoman invasion of 1480 and the earthquake of 1481, and called upon the Order's knights elsewhere in Europe to come to the island's defense.
		Mustafa's replacement, Ahmed Pasha, was an experienced siege engineer, and the Turks now focused their efforts on undermining the ramparts and blowing them up with mines while maintaining their continuous artillery barrages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1522) (952 words)

	Rhodes (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The bronze and silver statue, the Colossus of Rhodes, was created in 305 BC and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
		Most photographs of Rhodes include some part of its massive city walls around the Old Town, because the walls are everywhere you turn.
		The Palace of the Grand Masters was the seat for each of the nineteen Grand Masters that oversaw the Knights of Saint John in Rhodes from 1305 until their defeat in 1522.
	www.sweptawaytravels.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Rhodes.htm (436 words)

	Malta of the Knights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Siege guns were transported on to the heights of Corradino overlooking Senglea (see map), and by the end of the first week of July large-scale bombardment had begun.
		The siege was raised on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
		At this very moment, while the survivors of the siege were giving thanks for their victory, Mustapha Pasha discovered that he had been tricked into believing the relief force to be double the 10,000 they actually were.
	www.sspx.ca /Angelus/2004_October/Malta_Knights.htm (11020 words)

	History \| Rhodes 3D
		We have a lot of information available on the final siege of Rhodes and contemporaries tell us that the Sultans forces were commanded by Suleiman's brother-in-law, Mustafa Pasha, and numbered 120,000 men with a further 60,000 Balkan peasants who were used for labour.
		The Turks tactics were somewhat different to the siege of 1480, they too also blockaded the harbour, but their artillery barrages were mounted against the landward fortifications and great walls.
		For the next four centuries, Rhodes remained a Turkish possession, and one would have expected Ottoman rule to have left an indelible imprint on the Island.
	www.rhodes3d.com /history (1269 words)

	About Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Consequently, Dimitrios laid siege against Rhodes, but was defeated, whereupon in victory the Rhodians commissioned the Lindian sculptor Haritos to build the statue of the Kolossos.
		The artificial lake at the end of the tunnel was built by the Italians, and used to irrigate the plane of Kolympia.
		On the eastern slope of Monte Smith there are the ruins of the Temple of Pythios Apollo, of the sanctuary of Athena and of the restored ancient Stadium and Theatre.
	www.matinahotel-faliraki.gr /about_rhodes.htm (885 words)

	Colossus of Rhodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant statue of the Greek god Helios, erected on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos, a pupil of Lysippos, between 292 and 280 BC.
		During the fighting Rhodes had sided with Ptolemy, and when Ptolemy eventually took control of Egypt, Rhodes and Ptolemaic Egypt formed an alliance which controlled much of the trade in the eastern Mediterranean.
		In AD 654 an Arab force under Muawiyah I captured Rhodes, and according to the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor, the remains were sold to a travelling salesman from Edessa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes (1144 words)

	Catholic Culture : Catholic Leisure: The Siege of Malta
		Unlike the lush and tropical island of Rhodes, the island of Malta was rocky, arid, parched, barren, small, and utterly disappointing.
		Yet he also likely understood that the disunity that infected the Continent as well as the obvious difficulty of quickly gathering and transporting an army across the sea was going to leave his small force alone for a great length of time.
		Resigned to fight as if no aid would come, the aging Grand Master, a veteran of the siege at Rhodes forty three years before, began drawing all civilians and supplies within the island's four strongholds, of which the three bristling fortifications were to prove the most important.
	www.catholicculture.org /leisure/history/sofm2.cfm (797 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.
		The fortress of Rhodes held out for several months; the island, however, proved untenable.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/16cen/rhodes1522.html (208 words)

	The Colossus of Rhodes
		The Colossus of Rhodes was approximately as large as the Statue of Liberty in New York.
		At Rhodes was set up a Colossus of seventy cubits high, representing the Sun...the artist expended as much bronze on it as seemed likely to create a dearth in the mines, for the casting of the statue was an operation in which the bronze industry of the whole world was concerned.
		In the summer of 1987 the Greek Marine Minister was a victim of the colossus of Rhodes.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Colossus.htm (2186 words)

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		Visby and Rhodes, although located at the two extremes of the medieval Christian world, comprise important symbols of the exchange between these cultures.
		This inheritance constitutes a living memory for the future that surpasses the worth of the monuments and remnants of the past, however moving their beauty may be.
		When I was asked to represent UNESCO for the official inauguration of the Centre of Rhodes, I was immediately impressed by the conformity of the goals that are aimed for here, with the ideals that are supported by our Organisation.
	www.rhodes.aegean.gr /dklmr/opinions_stenou.htm (2278 words)

	Learning History - Robinson Books - GA Henty Collection - Adventure Books for Boys
		Finally, dislodged from Rhodes by the second Turkish siege, they fortified themselves at Malta, which they held against all attacks.
		Henty paints vivid images of the life and times of the peoples of that era and subjects his hero to numerous exciting adventures, but the most riveting image of the book occurs during the battle itself.
		The Turks had effected a breach in the wall of the fortress at Rhodes, and thousands of Turkish soldiers were pouring upward over the pile of rubble in front of that breach.
	www.henty.com /henty/s86p1054.htm (756 words)

	Alexander's successors: The Fourth Diadoch War II
		As a preparation, Demetrius had to besiege Rhodes, a mercantile republic that possessed a large navy and controlled the entrance to the Aegean Sea.
		Again, Demetrius impressed the world with the size and quantity of his siege machines and the almost scientific approach of the citadel of Rhodes.
		However, all his machines did not bring him victory: Rhodes was reinforced by Cassander and Lysimachus and especially Ptolemy.
	www.livius.org /di-dn/diadochi/war08.html (1351 words)

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