Dodecanese
The Dodecanese, opposite Asia Minor, between Samos and Crete, include twenty-six bigger and smaller islands, which were very prosperous in antiquity and played an important part in all subsequent periods, as they were situated on the main maritime routes of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Maps of these islands are included in all isolaria, in manuscript or in print, from the 15th to the early 18th century, while their ports are found in every significant historical and geographical work and port index.
The biggest of the islands, Rhodes, attracted several visitors and provided many subjects for illustration, thanks to its strategic port, the city of the Knights Hospitaller and its ancient monuments.
Kos, the island of Hippocrates, father of medicine, and Patmos with its significant monastery andthe cave of the Apocalypse, and the costumes of the islands' inhabitants are some of the subjects of the illustrations found in travel accounts.
1612 Breuning von Buchenbach, H.J.
1659 Bosio, Giacomo / Boissat, Pierre de
1688 Coronelli, V.M. / Parissoti, An.
1759 Egmont, J.A. van / Heymann, J.
1782 Choiseul-Gouffier, M.G.F.A. (comte de)
1854 Fellows, Ch. / Scharf, G.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou