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Skopelos ((ギリシア語:Σκόπελος)) is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group, which lies east of the Pelion peninsula on the mainland and north of the island of Euboea. It is part of the Thessaly region. Skopelos is also the name of the main port and the municipal center of the island. The other communities of the island are Glossa and Neo Klima (Elios). The geography of Skopelos includes two mountains over ; Delphi () in the center of the island, and Palouki () in the southeast. With an area of Skopelos is slightly larger than Mykonos () and Santorini (). The nearest inhabited islands are Skiathos to the west and Alonissos to the east. ==History== According to the legend, Skopelos was founded by Staphylos or Staphylus (Greek for grape), one of the sons of the god Dionysos and the princess Ariadne of Crete. Historically, in the Late Bronze Age the island, then known as Peparethos or Peparethus (),〔Stuart Rossiter, ''Greece'', 4th ed. (E. Benn, 1981), p. 383: "Ancient Peparethos had become Skopelos by Ptolemaic times."〕 was colonised by Cretans, who introduced viticulture to the island. Perhaps because of the legend of its founding by the son of the god of wine, the island was known throughout the ancient Greek cities of the Mediterranean Sea for its wine. The play Philoctetes (first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC) by Sophocles includes a wine merchant lost on his way to "Peparethos, rich in grapes and wine". Pliny the Elder, in his book "Natural History" 〔Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History'', book XIV, 9, 2〕 writes: "''The physician Apollodorus, in the work in which he wrote recommending King Ptolemy what wines in particular to drink -- for in his time the wines of Italy were not generally known -- has spoken in high terms of that of Naspercene in Pontus, next to which he places the Oretic, and then the Aeneatian, the Leucadian, the Ambraciotic, and the Peparethian, to which last he gives the preference over all the rest, though he states that it enjoyed an inferior reputation, from the fact of its not being considered fit for drinking until it had been kept six years.''" In 1936 excavations in the area of Staphylos / Velanio uncovered a royal tomb of the era of Mycenaean Greece. The island was briefly under the control of the city-state Chalcis, Euboea since at least the 8th century BC. In turn the island would come under the political influence or direct domination of: *Athens. *the Kingdom of Macedon (338 - 146 BC). *The Roman Republic (146 - 27 BC). *The Roman Empire (27 BC - 330 AD). *The Byzantine Empire (330 - 1204). *The Latin Empire of Constantinople (ca 1204-1277) *The Byzantine Empire (1277 - ?). *The Ottoman Empire (? - 1403) *The Byzantine Empire (1403 - 1456). *The Republic of Venice known as Scopelo (1456 - 1538). *The Ottoman Empire (1538 until the Greek War of Independence). Skopelos became part of the First Hellenic Republic under the London Protocol confirming its sovereignty (3 February 1830).〔''Skopelos: A Guide to the Island''〕 During World War II, Skopelos fell under Axis occupation. At first it was occupied by the Kingdom of Italy (June 1941 - September 1943) and then by Nazi Germany (September 1943 - October 1944). Skopelos and the rest of Greece returned to democratic style government in 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skopelos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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