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Season 259 - Day 6 of 14
Islands and Archipelagos
Known in antiquity as Thera, this Greek island in the southern Aegean was reshaped by a catastrophic Bronze Age volcanic eruption that buried the settlement of Akrotiri beneath ash and created a flooded caldera.
Celebrated today for the whitewashed villages and blue-domed churches clinging to its steep cliffs, by what Venetian-derived name is this Cycladic island known?
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