Offshore Explorer

Rhodes, Greece: The Veil Of History

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Sitting in Mandraki Harbor in Rhodes Greece in my boat, I was surrounded by layers of history of exhausting effort and mortal combat driven by the conflict over whose God was the true God which belies the peaceful hustle and bustle of the port.

Rhodes is the largest continuously occupied fortress city in the world. The Colossus of Rhodes stood here in 290 BC some six hundred years before the Nicaea council met to codify the rules of Christian worship. Through long periods, Rhodes was a center for trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. It was an open city. Open to ideas that flourished through the ages. Rhodes was a formidable military center. It was the central headquarters of the Knights of St. John during the crusades. No other religions we allowed to be practiced in the gates of the fortress except Christianity. The Knights of Saint John eventually were driven out of Rhodes by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1522. The siege took six months, 100,000s of men, and thousands of ships. Rhodes remained under Ottoman control until Italy seized Rhodes in 1912. During the Ottoman rule, all religions were allowed to practice.

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