Ikaría is an island in the Ikarian sea The island is marked in the local linguistic usage also with Nikaria. The seat of the restaurant government is in Samos. Ikaria has about 7400 inhabitants. The island has a surface of 255 km². The mountain range, which pulls the island through, is called today Atheras, in the antiquity it Pramnos was called. The principal place of the island is Ágios Kírikos Further places Amalo Armenistis Avlaki Chrisostomos Christos Rachos (the antiquity city Histoi; Banishing place of Mikis Theodorakis) Evdilos Giasliskari Kambos (once the antiquity city Oinoe) Karginagri monastery Theokisti Manganitis Nas (antiker temple of the Artemis Tauropolos) stood here Plagiá Perdiki Therma \ Xylosyrtis of remainders of the antiken city Drakanon Fanari are at the Ostzipfel of the island, called. One can reach Ikaria with the ship of Piraeus or Samos. There are larger ports in agio Kirikos and Evdilos. With the airplane one reaches the island airport in the proximity of agio Kirikos from Athens, Thessaloniki or Samos. Admits is the island for sources, whose water contains sulfur, radium and radon. History Ikarias began in 8. Century v. Chr., when the island was settled from Milet. In 5. Century v. Chr. were then the cities Oinoe and Thermai of members of the Atti sea-federation. For instance starting from that 2. Century v. Chr. belonged to Ikaria to Samos. Ikari sea on Ikaria buried, the myth after, Daedalus's its son Ikaros, which had fallen here with the escape from Crete into the sea. Daedalus and Ikarus had their prison, which leave labyrinth of the Minotauros, with manufactured wings. Dionysos, the God of the Weines, had a legendary meeting with Piraten with Ikaria; it is to have also the wine of Oinoe particularly estimated. The original name of the island was Doliche (about ' the long one '), until it was designated after Ikarus.
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