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Kos is a spectacular Greek Island surrounded by the clear waters of the
Aegean Sea.
It is the second largest in the Dodecanese chain, the largest being Rhodes.
The population of Kos is around 25,000. Although the indigenous people
are Greek, the islands only became part of Greece in 1948 and have in the
past been under Turkish and Italian flags. The architecture of the
main town of Kos shows these influences.
The First Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, was born on Kos, and developed
many of his medical practices here. He produced the first statement of
good practice for doctors, and even today doctors swear to the modern
version of the Hippocratic Oath.
Throughout the island there are historical sites, open to the public, going
back to Neanderthal times. In particular the castles of the Knights of
St John, the Asklepion (medical centre and temple to the Greek God of
healing) and the White Rock cave where remains of early man have been found
are worth visiting.
A
famous visitor to Kos is recorded in Acts 21v1, when St Paul visited here on
his journey back to Jerusalem.
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