{"id":39836,"date":"2021-08-09T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/serifos\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:17:01","slug":"serifos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/serifos\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9rifos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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View of Ch\u00f3ra, S\u00e9rifos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The name “S\u00e9rifos”<\/strong> comes from the ancient Greek word “st\u00e9rifos”, meaning means “sterile” (other connotations are “deprived”, “I do not have” conceptually leading to the meaning “infertile”). The ancient Greeks called the island like this because it was very dry.<\/p>\n\n

The first inhabitants of the island<\/strong> were the Aeolians from Thesal\u00eda in the 8th century BC, but 100 years later (7th century BC) they abandoned it, because it was too far away from their homeland. Not much later, the island fell into the hands of the Ionians and from then until the Roman era the city of S\u00e9rifos was a quarry.<\/p>\n\n

Around the 6th century BC<\/strong>, the island of S\u00e9rifos was home to a breed of frogs, whose noise was almost impossible to hear. This is why when Greeks observe someone (mostly politicians) who doesn\u2019t talk much or doesn\u2019t speak clearly they called them a \u00abSer\u00edfian frog\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n

During the Greco-Persian war<\/strong> (499-449 BC), S\u00e9rifos took part on the side of the Greeks. They also participated in the Battle of Salamis (480 BC) and in the battle of Plataea (479 BC).<\/p>\n\n

From the Roman times until 1204<\/strong> (4th Crusade), S\u00e9rifos was used as a place of exile. Then, it remained in the hands of the various conquerors until the Greek Independence war and the inhabitants of S\u00e9rifos lived a very miserable life. The first conquerors of S\u00e9rifos were the Venetians, and they were much crueler here compared to other islands in the Aegean Sea. They robbed the citizens to the point of wretchedness and tortured them until they gave up all of their money. Then, came the Ottomans (1537 AD), who did exactly what they did to every other island in the Aegean Sea, they slaughtered men, sold women and children to the slave markets and those who remained unsold were also killed. <\/p>\n\n

When the Russian-Ottoman war<\/strong> took place (1770-1774), the citizens of S\u00e9erifos were living a dull life, because of the island\u2019s lack of food and money. <\/p>\n\n

Those 600 years of depressing life ended in 1821<\/strong> (Greek Independence War), where S\u00e9rifos raised the Greek flag and one year later they were released from the Ottoman administration. In fact, the mines reopened and quarried iron from 1867 until 1941, where then they fell into the hands of Italy and 1943 of Germany. Thankfully, for the citizens, Italy and Germany were uninterested in the island, and only made them pay taxes.<\/p>\n\n

S\u00e9rifos or Chora <\/strong>(the capital) is a city perched on a mountain known to some as \u201cEagle\u2019s nest\u201d, because of its amazing view. There is a Castle, which was destroyed in the 13th century AD by pirates. In the town there is a Folklore Museum, where it has many artifacts and texts regarding S\u00e9rifos\u2019 history. In the area there also stands the church of Saint John Theol\u00f3gos, built on a rock over the ruins of the temple of the Goddess Athena.<\/p>\n\n

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The building of the iron ore mining company, Megalo Livadi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

From antiquity to date, with some break periods, iron has been mined in the city of S\u00e9rifos. The abandoned bridges in the bays of V\u00e1gia, Coutal\u00e1 and Meg\u00e1lo Liv\u00e1di (compass anomalies are also observable here) stand to remind us of the history of the island. For further details of the islands mining history, visit the Museum of Rocks in Meg\u00e1lo Liv\u00e1di<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The name “S\u00e9rifos” comes from the ancient Greek word “st\u00e9rifos”, meaning means “sterile” (other connotations are “deprived”, “I do not have” conceptually leading to the meaning “infertile”). The ancient Greeks called the island like this because it was very dry. The first inhabitants of the island were the Aeolians from Thesal\u00eda in the 8th century…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659],"tags":[452,682],"class_list":["post-39836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isl-sifnos-isl-serifos","tag-history","tag-serifos","category-659","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39837,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39836\/revisions\/39837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}