Santorini (grc)

Santorini

Santorini ranks 10,851st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sierra Leone, South Carolina, and Sarawak. Memorable people born in Santorini include Battus I of Cyrene. Memorable people who died in Santorini include Kaj Franck, and Spyridon Marinatos. Santorini has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many designers, and archaeologists. Santorini is located in Greece.

Santorini, officially Thira and Classical Greek Thera, is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from the Greek mainland. It is the largest island of a small circular archipelago, which bears the same name and is the remnant of a caldera. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km2 (28 sq mi) and a 2021 census population of 15,480. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia, as well as the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi and Christiana. The total land area is 90.623 km2 (34.990 sq mi). Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit. Read more on Wikipedia