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Modern Description: East of the turning for the church of the Episkopí, the road continues to Kamári (7km) an expanding resort set behind a long beach of black volcanic sand. On several plots in the town, where archaeologists have been able to make salvage excavations before building has begun, traces of the port of ancient Oea have come to light. Theodore Bent visited Kamári in 1883 and remarks on seeing ‘the remains of a Roman temple, some statues of inferior workmanship, and the foundations of houses'. Oea was founded in the 8th century BC as the out-port for the main settlement of Ancient Thera which crowns the mountain to the south.
Wikidata ID: Q65040337

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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