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Sifnos lies south east of Piraeus, and east of Paros. It has access via Syros (4 hours and 83km from Piraeus) then connects to Serifos, and Sifnos. The main port is Kamares and the capital is Appollonia, which is 20 minutes from the port by bus.
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Phoenicians first settled there and mined for gold. The island was called Meropia. Later the Cretans, and then Ionians lived there. An annual egg of solid gold was sent each year to Apollo at Delphi. One year a gold-gilded rock was sent instead and the mines then sank and dried up, hence the new name of Sifnos, which means empty. In 1307 the Da Koronia family ruled in place for Venice and in 1456, Kozadinos, the Lord of Kythnos, married into family and ruled until 1617, when the Turks conquered the island. The island was then under Turkish Rule until 1921 when the islands were liberated back to Greece
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This topic is not island-specific. It applies to the nation of Greece.
Orthodox Christianity is the recognized dominant religion of Greece and it is legally protected by the state. This has caused legal discrimination against non-Orthodox Churches, and although the constitution of 1975 removed the power of most of the old laws against Protestants, problems still exist today. There is a lot of fear towards anything outside of the Orthodox Church, especially on the islands. However, repeated rulings of the European Court of Justice in favour of religious minorities in cases of discrimination have led to a relative increase of the freedoms that these religious minorities now enjoy.
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Please pray
* For the Spirit of God to bring revival.
* For more Christian workers
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* Monastry at Exambello has many old manuscripts and objects of religious art
* Platys Yialos has a nice beach and camping, with small boat that go to Paros
* Artemon with its windmills, named from the goddess of the chase, who once had a temple where the current Konies church is.
* Stavros is one church built on ruins of an ancient temple, another such church is Ouranofora
* Appollonia contains a folk museum.
* Mary Monastery Chrissopigi built in 1650 on a holy rock
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1 Sept - Ag. Simeon near Kamares
20 July - Prophet Elijah near Kamares
29 Aug - Ag Ioannes in Vathi
25 March and 21 Nov- Panagia tou Vornou(Mary of the mountain)
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www.greektravel.com
www.in2greece.com
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