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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
The delightful island of Rhodes is famous for a variety of reasons, and not least because of its possession for over two centuries by the Knights Hospitallers or Knights of St. John. After retreating from the Holy Land the Knights took Rhodes from the Byzantine Empire in 1309; they left it on 1st January 1523, according to the terms of the capitulation, after a most arduous siege by the Turks in the preceding year. They had also been besieged by the Turks in 1320, by the Egyptians in 1444, and by the Turks again in 1480. These sieges and the almost constant danger of attack by hostile neighbours laid upon the Knights the necessity of maintaining their defences in a high state of readiness. The mainland of Asia Minor is normally visible from the island at a distance of twelve miles.
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