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CYCLADES - TINOS ISLAND - TINOS

(4th - 2nd centuries BC)

Tenos is of very old creation. She is mentioned at the end of the Trojan War. Part of the Achaean fleet sank there. At the start of the Persian Wars. Tenos welcomed the inhabitants of Delos who fled from the Persians. Occupied in turn, his sailors changed sides during the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC.. -VS. for Athens. Tenos participated in the creation of the Delian league in 478 BC. -VS. remained faithful to Athens until its fall. It then passed under Spartan domination before joining the second Athenian thalassocracy. The city was looted despite everything by Alexandre de Pherai in 362 BC. -VS. This is when the new Tenos was refounded. Tenos was part of the Nesiotic maritime league founded by Antigone le Borgne in 307 BC.. -VS. When Rhodes after Cynoscephali founded a second maritime league, Tenos became its headquarters and religious center. Tenos suffered greatly from pirate incursions into the Cyclades during the Mithridatic Wars. Tenos remained loyal to Pompey and after the defeat of Pharsalus the island was entrusted to Rhodes. It regained its independence only after the defeat of Actium.