Kardamena history guide

The island saw great development in the 4th century B.C., especially after the building of their beautiful new city in 366 B.C., where the modern city is now situated. After a brief occupation by a Persian General, Kos again prospered under the auspices of Alexander the Great. Unfortunately, during the period of the Roman Empire, its libraries and other treasures were looted. Later conquered by the Venetians, Kos was sold to the Knights of Saint John in 1306.They ruled it for 200 years, until their abandonment of it to the Turks. The Turkish occupation lasted for almost four hundred years, until 1912, when the Italians took over. Germany, too, came to occupy Kos until the end of Word War II when the British arrived as guardians. Kos was reunited with Greece on March 7 1948. Especially the area of Kardamena , built on the site of the ancient settlement of Alasarna, archaeological excavations  revealed a temple of Apollo, an extensive Early Christian settlement with four basilicas.  Here at the ancient archeaological dig site of the byzantine church that a chest was found containing the Biblio Tau Prophetis  by a team sent by the Archaelogical Society of Athens in 1860.