Almost in the center of the Aegean. Between the French trial and Evia as for the north-south axis and between Pelion and Lemnos, Lesvos, and Chios as for the west-east axis, the relevant Sporades complex is located.
This island unit consists of 4 of the largest islands, known today as Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonissos, and Skyros, as well as a multitude of other islands and islets. Unlike the rest of the islands, Skyros and Skiathos retained their original names to this day. The name Peparithos is used exclusively for Skopelos until the second century AD and sporadically until the sixth century, when it prevails absolutely in its current name, in one with certain variations, such as Skepila or Skepola.
The island, which is located immediately east of it, is known by the also former pre-Hellenic name Ikos. Throughout antiquity, while from the second century after Christ, it is found in Chiliodromia or Heliodromia during the Byzantine period as Chiliodromia. Road to the revolution, as Iliodromia.
In 1836 it was renamed to another Alonissos by the Ministry of the Interior, which was known from ancient sources; in fact, it probably inhabited the islet that today is known to the locals as Kyra Panagia. And officially it bears the name Pelagonisi, while in the Byzantine period it is also found as Gymnopelagonisi.
Antiquity
For the Geometric period, which was inaugurated with borrowed gifts from God and the consequent destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, we have only a few data. It seems that the islands continued to be inhabited by the Dolopes, who systematically engaged in piracy.
During the disastrous Peloponnesian War for the classical world, the islands remained on the side of the Athenians, maintaining the democratic regimes that the latter had established.
Naturally, during the Hellenistic years, these small islands, lost in the vastness of the states founded by the successors of Alexander the Great, took a back seat. They refer only to the reign of Philip V of Macedon during his successive conflicts with the Kingdom of Pergamon and the Romans until the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC. The Romans conquered the Sporades, probably in 146, after the fall of Corinth and the subjugation of all of Greece.
In 42 BC, Antony donated Ikos, Peparithos, and Skiathos to the Athenians.
This lasted until 186 AD, when Septimius Severus restored Skiathos, Icos, and Peparithon to the absolute dominion of Rome and returned Skyros, considering this Athenian territory, to Macedonia. A piece of information about Ikos at the end of Roman rule. Coincidentally, the writer Philostratus gives us in his Heroic. The Hymneous landowner from the neighboring Peparithos owns the entire island on his own and cultivates vineyards on it.
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