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The censuses of 1889 and 1896 show the evolution in the Cyclades’ population. The total number of inhabitants rose 2.4%, from 131,500 to 134,750. This growth was the weakest in all of Greece (+11% on average, +21% for Attica). At the same time, the city of Ermoupolis lost 8,000 people (-27%), falling from over 30,000 to 22,000 dwellers.
Cycladic culture (also known as Cycladic civilisation) was a Bronze Age culture (c. 3100–c. 1000 BC) found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.In chronological terms, it is a relative dating system for artifacts which is roughly contemporary to Helladic chronology (mainland Greece) and Minoan chronology (Crete) during the same period of time.
Sifnos (Greek: Σίφνος) [3] is an island municipality in the Cyclades island group in Greece.The main town, near the center, known as Apollonia (pop. 918 as of 2021), is home of the island's folklore museum and library.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens. In 2007–2008, the same project identified and excavated a substantial Cycladic period settlement on the nearby island of Daskalio that was once attached to Keros, but is now a tiny islet because of sea level rise,. A large area has been excavated, revealing a substantial building 16 metres long and 4 ...
The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. [1] Starting in the early 1960s, the couple collected Greek antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the Cyclades islands of the Aegean Sea . [ 2 ]
Syros (Greek: Σύρος), also known as Siros or Syra, is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea.It is 78 nautical miles (144 km) south-east of Athens.The area of the island is 83.6 km 2 (32 sq mi) and at the 2021 census it had 21,124 inhabitants.
The museum houses the archaeological finds from excavations in the area, and it is organized into three thematic units: sculpture, inscriptions, and miscellaneous finds. [5] The most important objects in the museum include a sculpture of Pegasus from 6th–5th century BC, a funerary statue of a lion from the 4th century BC, and a portion of an ...
Ano Syros (Greek: Άνω Σύρος, “Upper Syros”) is a town and a former municipality on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Syros-Ermoupoli, of which it is a municipal unit. [2]