Kos is an island of great beauty, lying in the centre of the Dodecanese chain in the Aegean Sea. (“Dodecanese” in Greek means “twelve islands”).
Kos is north west of Rhodes and south east of continental Greece. It is the third largest island of the Dodecanese after Rhodes and Karpathos. Apart from its natural beauty and its breath taking golden sandy beaches, Kos is filled with monuments, remnants of its glorious past, dating from antiquity, the Byzantine Era and Venetian times up to present. Kos is basically a large, long narrow plain and measures 290.27 Kos Island Sunsetsquare kilometers, not considering its mountainous region in the north west of the island.
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