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Santorini (, pronounced ), classically Thera ( English pronunciation ), and officially Thira ( Greek: Θήρα ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast of Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately and a 2011 census population of 15,550. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, and Christiana. The total land area is . Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit.
Santorini is essentially what remains after an enormous volcanic eruption that destroyed the earliest settlements on a formerly single island, and created the current geological caldera. A giant central, rectangular lagoon, which measures about , is surrounded by high, steep cliffs on three sides. The main island slopes downward to the Aegean Sea. On the fourth side, the lagoon is separated from the sea by another much smaller island called Therasia; the lagoon is connected to the sea in two places, in the northwest and southwest. The depth of the caldera, at 400m, makes it impossible for any but the largest ships to anchor anywhere in the protected bay; there is also a fisherman's harbour at Vlychada, on the southwestern coast. The island's principal port is Athinias. The capital, Fira, clings to the top of the cliff looking down on the lagoon. The volcanic rocks present from the prior eruptions feature olivine and have a small presence of hornblende.
It is the most active volcanic centre in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, though what remains today is chiefly a water-filled caldera. The volcanic arc is approximately long and wide. The region first became volcanically active around 3–4 million years ago, though volcanism on Thera began around 2 million years ago with the extrusion of dacitic lavas from vents around the Akrotiri.
The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred some 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization. The eruption left a large caldera surrounded by volcanic ash deposits hundreds of metres deep and may have led indirectly to the collapse of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, to the south, through a gigantic tsunami. Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.
Santorini is the final Novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1986.
Santorini is an island in the Aegean Sea, part of an archipelago of the same name.
Santorini may also refer to:
- Santorini (novel), by Alistair MacLean
- Santorini (game), a strategic board game
- Santorini tomato, a tomato cultivar
- Santorini (wine), a Greek wine
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Santorini
- Santorini, a boat captured during the Santorini affair in 2002
- MV Express Santorini, a ferry
- Al Santorini (born 1948), American baseball player
Santorini is a two or three-player strategy board game released in 2004 by Gordon Hamilton.
All profits from Santorini go towards The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens or to improve mathematics education in Brazil.
Santorini is a Greek wine region located on the archipelago of Santorini in the southern Cyclades islands of the Greece. Wine has been produced there since ancient times, and during the Middle Ages the wine of Santorini became famous worldwide under the influence of the Republic of Venice. The Italian influence is still present in modern Santorini winemaking: the most famous tuscan sweet wine is called Vin Santo. The Santorini's Vin Santo (labeled here and officially as "Vinsanto" to disclaim it from the homonym Tuscan wine) is made in a passito style from grapes dried in the sun after harvest. Santorini also produces blended and rosé wine made from white grapes such as Athiri, Aidini and Assyrtiko, and red grapes such as Mandelaria.
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Michael Santorini, the Honolulu psychologist being sought in the brutal slaying of his estranged wife.
Michael Santorini, which shows him as he appeared last Saturday at LAX.
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Though Santorini truly believed in God, and the Church, he also believed in evil.
Bishop Santorini was not a genius for observation, the scene clarified for him in an instant.
Montrovant wanted to be beyond the annoying, clutching reach of Bishop Santorini and the longer, more insidious grasp of the Church itself.
If there were vampire hunters in the hire of the Church in Rome, and they were on the road at the same time, in the same area, as he, Abraham wondered why it was that Bishop Santorini had failed to mention it.
Abraham wondered why, when Santorini had given him the letters and the gold and sent him on his way, he had not turned toward some faraway land and never looked back.