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[[File:Santorini maisema.JPG|270px|thumb|View of Santorini.]]
'''Santorini''' is a [[Greece|Greek]] [[island]]. The capital is Thira. Santorini is 63 miles from the island of [[Crete]]. The total population is 13,600. 

Santorini is considered an [[active volcano]].<ref>United States Geologic Survey (USGS), [http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/DecadeVolcanoes/  "Decade Volcanoes"]; retrieved 2012-6-15.</ref> 

==History==
Human presences on the island seem to have existed since the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. The excavations at Akrotiri have confirmed that human activity on the island continued until the eruption of the [[volcano]] around 1500 B.C, which entirely buried the island beneath very thick layers of pozzuolona,. At that point, all traces of human activity vanished from the island until the end of the 13th century B.C. 
 
According to Herodotus, the island was initially called Strongyle (the Round One). Then later, because of its beauty, it was named Kalliste (the Fairest One). The Phoenicians settled in Kalliste, and after the Phoenicians, the Lacedaemonians arrived and renamed the island after their leader, Theras. In the 9th century B.C. Thera, became an important stopping point of that era in the travel routes (contracted; show full)
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[[Category:Greek Islands]]
[[Category:Calderas]]
[[Category:Wine regions]]