Wednesday 30 September 2015

Oia Village in Santorini, Greece

Oia Village in Santorini

Oia is a residential area and previous group in the South Aegean on the islands of Thira and Therasia, in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 nearby government change it has been a piece of the district of Santorini, of which it is a city unit. It covers the entire island of Therasia and the northwestern most piece of Santorini, which it offers with the city unit of Santorini. The principle road is named Nikolaou Nomikou. The populace was 3376 occupants at the 2001 statistics, and the land region is 19.449 km2.


Oia was already known as Apano Meria, a name which still happens locally as Pano Meria, and the tenants are still called Apanomerites. The Ancient Greek Oia was one of the two harbors of old Thera and was situated in the southeast of the island, where Kamari is presently. 

Oia achieved the pinnacle of thriving in the late nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds of years. Its monetary thriving depended on its dealer armada, which handled exchange the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly from Alexandria to Russia. The two-story skippers' homes based on the most astounding part of the town are an indication of the town's previous luxuriousness. Part of the town was demolished by the 1956 seismic tremor.


History

The settlement of Oia had been specified in different travel reports before the start of Venetian manage, when Marco Sanudo established the Duchy of Naxos in 1207 and primitive govern was initiated on Santorini. Under the da Corogna family, Agios Nikolaos Kastell , likewise called Apanomeria , was one of five nearby fortresses. Its private keep, Goulas, is currently in the most seasoned part of the town, on its southwestern edge. 

In 1537, Hayreddin Barbarossa vanquished the Aegean islands and put them under Sultan Selim II. Notwithstanding, Santorini stayed under the Crispo family until 1566, passing then to Joseph Nasi and after his demise in 1579 to the Ottoman Empire. 

From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the settlement was assigned Apanomeria on maps. In the mid-seventeenth century, Jean de Thévenot utilizes the name Castelli San Nicolas. The name was changed to Oia in the second 50% of the nineteenth century. 

In the late nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds of years, the town was a sailors town that prospered as a consequence of seaborne exchange all through the Mediterranean, especially as a major aspect of the exchange course amongst Russia and Alexandria. In 1890 Oia had roughly 2,500 occupants and around 130 cruising ships. There was a wharf in the straight of Armeni. Magnificent wine was created in amount in the hinterland and sent out to France among different spots. Notwithstanding, the landing of steam and the centralization of transportation at Piraeus brought about the town's seagoing exchange to fall, and farming likewise reduced as expanding displacement occurred, particularly to Piraeus and Laurium. The economy of the town declined in the mid twentieth century because of wars, monetary melancholy and over extraction of fish assets. 

The 7.8 size seismic tremor on 9 July 1956 created significant harm. The epicenter of the most grounded consequential convulsion was situated off the northern bank of Santorini. The tremor was trailed by restored displacement, and in 1977 Oia had just 306 occupants. After the seismic tremor, the town redeveloped into an appealing traveler town of the Cyclades, and is known as a "photo culminate" town which gets swarmed with individuals amid the late spring season. Ensuing to the quakes, the town has been redeveloped, however its financial thriving is not to same degree as it populace recorded now is just 6% of what it was in 1900.

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