Qualla: Rhodes https://qualla.com/rhodes en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/7/v/rhodes-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rhodes https://qualla.com/rhodes Rhodes: Introduction https://qualla.com/rhodes/ Photo credit User:Piotrus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pindar told the story this way: Helios the sun god rose every morning to find the island of Rhodes waiting for him in the sea, and he loved it. He married the nymph Rhodos, and their three sons gave their names to the cities of Lindos, Ialyssos, and Kamiros. Whether or not this is why the island is called Rhodes is uncertain. The Greek word for rose, *rhodon*, sounds nearly identical, and the rhoda is a pink hibiscus native to the slopes. Some scholars argue the name comes from Phoenician *erod*, snake, because in antiquity Rhodes was overrun by them. Whatever the origin, the rose became the island's emblem, stamped on coins beside the head of Helios for nearly a thousand years.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/7/v/rhodes-wp/sw7v-rhodes-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rhodes: The Three Cities Become One https://qualla.com/rhodes/ Photo credit gravure sur bois de Sidney Barclay numérisée Google, Public domain. Mycenaean Greeks settled Rhodes during the Bronze Age, then came the Dorians around the 8th century BC, founding Lindos, Ialyssos, and Kamiros. These three city-states joined Kos, Cnidus, and Halicarnassus in the Dorian Hexapolis, a religious and cultural league across the easter...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/7/v/rhodes-wp/sw7v-rhodes-the-three-cities-become-one.mp3 0:06 2 full Rhodes: The Siege That Built the Colossus https://qualla.com/rhodes/ Photo credit latinsoapsfever, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 305 BC, Demetrius the Besieger arrived with a fleet and a siege engineer's imagination. He built a battering ram that took 1,000 men to operate and a siege tower called the Helepolis, the City-Taker, nine stories tall and clad in iron. For a year he hammered at the walls. The ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/7/v/rhodes-wp/sw7v-rhodes-the-siege-that-built-the-colossus.mp3 0:06 3 full Rhodes: Roman Province, Byzantine Theme, Knights' Refuge https://qualla.com/rhodes/ Photo credit Fethullah Çelebi Arifi (historian, poet and painter) and/or Matrakçı Nasuh (painter of landscape) and/or other painters at the court of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Public domain. The Romans took Rhodes' independence after 164 BC but valued the island as a school of rhetoric where senators sent their sons. Cassius sacked the city in 43 BC; Tiberius spent his political exile here at the start of the first century. Under Byzantium, Rhodes was the center of a...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/7/v/rhodes-wp/sw7v-rhodes-roman-province-byzantine-theme-knights-refuge.mp3 0:06 4 full Rhodes: Italian Colony, Holocaust, Greek Reunion https://qualla.com/rhodes/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0. Italy seized Rhodes from the Ottomans in 1912 during the Italo-Turkish War. The island became the showcase of Italian colonial ambition in the Aegean, with Mussolini's architects laying out wide boulevards, restoring the medieval old town, and building grand fascist-era hotels. I...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/7/v/rhodes-wp/sw7v-rhodes-italian-colony-holocaust-greek-reunion.mp3 0:06 5 full Rhodes: Spearhead Geography, Tourist Heart https://qualla.com/rhodes/ Photo credit Jebulon, CC0. Shaped like a spearhead pointing north, Rhodes is 80 kilometers long and 38 kilometers across at its widest, with Mount Attavyros rising to 1,215 meters in the interior. Rocky shores ring strips of arable land where citrus, olives, and wine grapes grow, and pine and cypress fores...

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