The harbour of Kastellorizo in the early 1900’s, compared to today. Over 10,000 people once lived on the island, but today the population stands at 492.
The population began to decline when the fall of the Ottoman Empire affected the maritime economy of the area. Residents left for Rhodes, the Levant, or Western countries, particularly Australia. A disastrous fire during a British occupation in WW2 destroyed half the homes on the island, many of which had already been looted by occupying troops.
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Lovely island, I visited a few years ago (my family immigrated from there to Australia in 1924). It has a spectacular ocean cave you can swim in.
asgoodasicanbesays
Wow, thanks. That is exactly the info I wanted.
forumwhoresays
Where/what country is this?
DerWaschbarsays
That’s pretty cool to see an example where urbanization went the other way around. I’d rather see that than a completely destroyed shoreline
Strong__Belwassays
This is the sort of content that keeps me subscribed to this forum! Very interesting, and sad.
CptnStarkossays
That’s a lot of houses fot 492 people!
Are they abandoned? Or used mostly for turism?
Gman777says
So often we assume cities and towns only get bigger and denser over time. Really interesting comparison here.
zephyer19says
Saw a show of photographs taken in Colorado over 100 years ago, mostly during the gold rush days of the state.
A guy went back and did his best to find where the pictures were taken from and took the same shot.
Pretty amazing that there were big cities in the mountains that only lasted a few years. Some were even discussed being made the Capital of Colorado and then faded away.
oldmateAL says
The population began to decline when the fall of the Ottoman Empire affected the maritime economy of the area. Residents left for Rhodes, the Levant, or Western countries, particularly Australia. A disastrous fire during a British occupation in WW2 destroyed half the homes on the island, many of which had already been looted by occupying troops.
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Lovely island, I visited a few years ago (my family immigrated from there to Australia in 1924). It has a spectacular ocean cave you can swim in.
asgoodasicanbe says
Wow, thanks. That is exactly the info I wanted.
forumwhore says
Where/what country is this?
DerWaschbar says
That’s pretty cool to see an example where urbanization went the other way around. I’d rather see that than a completely destroyed shoreline
Strong__Belwas says
This is the sort of content that keeps me subscribed to this forum! Very interesting, and sad.
CptnStarkos says
That’s a lot of houses fot 492 people!
Are they abandoned? Or used mostly for turism?
Gman777 says
So often we assume cities and towns only get bigger and denser over time. Really interesting comparison here.
zephyer19 says
Saw a show of photographs taken in Colorado over 100 years ago, mostly during the gold rush days of the state.
A guy went back and did his best to find where the pictures were taken from and took the same shot.
Pretty amazing that there were big cities in the mountains that only lasted a few years. Some were even discussed being made the Capital of Colorado and then faded away.