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caerus > Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands that run down the coast of Turkey.  In the middle ages, the knights used it as a base and it was one of the longest to hold out against the Ottoman Empire.  It is now a tourist site (Sun, Sea and Sand), a museum of the era of the Knights and perhaps the oldest medieval city of Europe
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caerus > The city is a walled fortress capable of resisting a prolonged seige
caerus > A view through the thick walls that protected the town
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caerus > The town square
caerus > Rhodes photo
caerus > The mosque is seen through a tourist site.  After a prolonged seige with a disproportionate loss of Moslem life, the knights were defeated.  They were offered safe passage and eventually re-established on Majorca.
caerus > A typical tourist
Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands that run down the coast of Turkey. In the middle ages, the knights used it as a base and it was one of the longest to hold out against the Ottoman Empire. It is now a tourist site (Sun, Sea and Sand), a museum of the era of the Knights and perhaps the oldest medieval city of Europe
 > Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands that run down the coast of Turkey.  In the middle ages, the knights used it as a base and it was one of the longest to hold out against the Ottoman Empire.  It is now a tourist site (Sun, Sea and Sand), a museum of the era of the Knights and perhaps the oldest medieval city of Europe
Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands that run down the coast of Turkey. In the middle ages, the knights used it as a base and it was one of the longest to hold out against the Ottoman Empire. It is now a tourist site (Sun, Sea and Sand), a museum of the era of the Knights and perhaps the oldest medieval city of Europe
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