Samos

Samos is a Greek island in the jap Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it's far separated via the 1.6-kilometre huge Mycale Strait. It is likewise a separate local unit of the North Aegean area, and the simplest municipality of the regional unit. In historic instances Samos turned into an in particular wealthy and effective metropolis-state, mainly recognized for its vineyards and wine manufacturing.

It is home to Pythagoreion and the Heraion of Samos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes the Eupalinian aqueduct, a surprise of historical engineering. Samos is the birthplace of the Greek logician and mathematician Pythagoras, after whom the Pythagorean theorem is named, the logician Epicurus, and the astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, the primary known man or woman to propose that the Earth revolves around the solar.

Samian wine was widely known in antiquity, and continues to be produced on the island. The Samian economic system relies upon particularly on agriculturecitation needed and the visitor industrywhich has been growing progressively since the early 1980s. The primary agricultural merchandise consist of grapes, honey, olives, olive oil, citrus fruit, dried figs, almonds and plant life.