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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Medieval City of Rhodes' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
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| Rhodes (Greek: xcexa1xcfx8cxcexb4xcexbfxcfx82, Rxc3xb3dos [xcbx88roxc3xb0os]) is the principal city and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese, Greece. | WIKI |
| The city of Rhodes is situated in the north-east tip of the island and forms a triangle from north to south. | WIKI |
| [3] It is the smallest municipal unit of the island in terms of land area and the largest in population. | WIKI |
| The island of Rhodes is at a crossroads between Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. | WIKI |
| This has given the city and the island many different identities, cultures, architectures, and languages over its long history. | WIKI |
| The island has been inhabited since about 4000 BC (Neolithic Period). | WIKI |
| In the early years of the divided Roman Empire, the Isaurians, a mountain tribe from Cilicia, invaded the island and burned the city. | WIKI |
| After the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the native noble Leo Gabalas took control of the island, but after his death and succession by his brother John, the island was briefly occupied by the Genoese before being returned to the Emperor of Nicaea, though ushering in a new, but short-lived, Byzantine period. | WIKI |
| Pope Clement V confirmed the Hospitallers possession of the Island in 1309. | WIKI |
| The Knights remained on the Island for the next two centuries. | WIKI |
| The defenders repelled Turkish attacks from both landward and seaward sides and the invaders left the Island in defeat. | WIKI |
| On January 1, 1523 the Knights departed from the island, leaving it to Ottoman control. | WIKI |
| The city maintained its main economic function as a market for the agricultural products of the interior of the island and the surrounding small islands. | WIKI |
| After the establishment of their sovereignty on the island, the Ottoman Turks converted most of the churches into mosques and transformed the major houses into private mansions or public buildings. | WIKI |
| In 1912 Italian troops took the island over with the rest of the Dodecanese Islands, and established an Italian possession known as Italian Islands of the Aegean in 1923. | WIKI |
| Rhodes City is the capital of the island of Rhodes which since 2011 became a single municipality and of the Rhodes regional unit. | WIKI |
| Both city and island population continue to grow contrary to national levels; the city has an official permanent population of 49,541 in 2011 census but its estimated that some 65xe2x80x9370.000 reside permanently within city limits. | WIKI |
| Erected less than 20 years ago, it is a modern facility with many departments as well the base for EKAV ambulances serving the city and island's northern part. | WIKI |
| Both the city and the island of Rhodes are served by Diagoras International Airport, situated 14xc2xa0km (9xc2xa0mi) south west of the city. | WIKI |
| During tourism season, international flights connect the island with numerous European cities and with Israel, Egypt and Lebanon. | WIKI |
| Ferries connect daily the island with several nearby islands within the Dodecanese Islands, as well as with the Cycladic Islands and the Greek mainland (Pireaus) while twice weekly a ferry goes to Heraklion, Crete. | WIKI |
| The city centre is also the point of departure for KTEL buses (orange buses) that serve island's east coast suburban routes. | WIKI |
| City is also the starting point of 3 of island's 5 main avenues connecting it with Faliraki through Rhodes-Kallithea Avenue, Lindos through Rhodes-Lindos Avenue and west coast (Ialysos, Airport, Tholos, Kamiros) through Rhodes-Kamiros Avenue. | WIKI |
| From 1309 to 1523 Rhodes, the largest island of the Dodecanese, was occupied by the Knights of Stxc2xa0John of Jerusalem who had lost their last stronghold in Palestine, in Acre, in 1291. | UNESCO |
| They transformed the island capital into a fortified city able to withstand sieges as terrible as those led by the Sultan of Egypt in 1444 and Mehmetxc2xa0II in 1480. | UNESCO |
| The fact that this medieval city is located on an island in the Aegean Sea, that it was on the site of an ancient Greek city, and that it commands a port formerly embellished by the Colossus erected by Chares of Lindos, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, only adds to its interest. | UNESCO |