Phoenicians, the Leleges, and the Carians. Those colonists were succeeded by the Mycenaeans.
Samos became a great power during the 6h century BC, when
it was ruled by the tyrant Polycrates who managed to turn
the island into a huge naval power.
Under its rule, the
arts and sciences flourished and the Eupalinus Tunnel,
a huge jetty, and the magnificent Heraion (Sanctuary of Hera) where built. |
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During the Battle of Plataea (479 BC) the Samians helped
Athens to win and then allied to it and returned to democracy.
Samos also
took place in the Battle of Mykale and, with the rest
of the Greek navy, defeated the Persian fleet.
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Aegean
Islands.
The inhabitants of the island played an important
role during the Greek Revolution against the Turkish
yoke, in the beginnings of the 1820s.
But the Great Powers gave the island back to Turks in
1830, making it semi-autonomous and being ruled by a Christian
prince.
This period is called Hegemony and was characterised by
an amelioration of the fortunes of the inhabitants and
by tobacco trades.
Samos was reunited to the rest of Greece, in 1912, after
the Balkan Wars. Now its economy is based on tourism, agriculture and fishing. |
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