Kos (grc)

Kos

Kos ranks 2,537th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vila Nova de Gaia, Oceanside, New York, and Amherst, Nova Scotia. Memorable people born in Kos include Hippocrates, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, and Ptolemy III Euergetes. Memorable people who died in Kos include Apelles, Herodas, and Meleager of Gadara. Kos has been the birth place of many politicians and physicians and the death place of many writers and painters. Kos is located in Greece.

Kos or Cos is a Greek island, which is part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese by area, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 37,089, making it the second most populous of the Dodecanese, after Rhodes. The island measures 42.1 by 11.5 kilometres. Administratively, Kos constitutes a municipality within the Kos regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is the town of Kos. Read more on Wikipedia