Thoas, the king of the island of Lemnos, had to flee from his home island to save himself from the island’s women. The women in Lemnos had started revolt against all the males and slaughtered them one by one. Thoas managed to escape by hiding in a trunk. The trunk was drifted all the way to Oinoi. There, Thoas met a nymph and had a son with her whom he named Sikinos. The island was named after this man.
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been inhabited since the prehistoric times. The Ionians were the first to occupy Sikinos in the 10th century B.C. Following them, the Dorians arrived from the mainland during the 5th century B.C.
The next was the turn of Venetians who ruled Cyclades from the 13th to 16th century under the control of Ducat of Naxos. The Turks conquered Sikinos in 1537.
The island suffered a lot during the Turk regime. The people fought bravely against the Turks. As a result, the island got its freedom in the 19th century and became part of Greece in 1830.
According to the first census of the island done in 1834, Sikinos had 979 inhabitants that time. |
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was under Italian and German occupation. The Greek Civil War and Marshal plan changed the face of the island to today’s form.
Nowadays, although most of the Greek islands developed their own infrastructure and flourished in tourism activities, Sikinos lagged behind because of lack of natural resources and skilled workforce. The islanders had to cope up with the ensuing poverty. In 2001, Sikinos had only 238 inhabitants. |
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