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Artist flabr has published a piece titled 'Port of Aistratis' on DeviantArt, giving viewers a look at the harbour of Agios Efstratios through the artist's eyes.
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The Green Agios Efstratios project has outperformed expectations in its very first months of operation, according to an update posted on the island's own aistratis-greenisland.gr site, which also details the environmental studies and licensing behind the initiative.
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Aistratis in Lesvos now has its own dedicated prayer-time page on IslamicFinder, where Muslim travellers and residents can look up accurate Namaz/Salah times for the village and download a free monthly or yearly calendar in Hijri or Gregorian format.
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Agios Efstratios (Agios Efstratios / Ai Stratis) is a small island in the North Aegean Sea roughly 30 km southwest of Lemnos, within the Lemnos regional unit. Home to about 257 residents (2021 census), it consists of a single village of the same name, largely rebuilt after a devastating 1968 earthquake. Arid and sparsely vegetated, the island falls within the EU Natura 2000 protected-area network and has been promoted since 2009 as a pilot green-island renewable-energy project.
History
The island was known in antiquity as Halonnesos and was contested between Athens and Macedon. Its modern name comes from Saint Eustratius, a 9th-century Byzantine monk exiled here for opposing iconoclasm; under Ottoman rule it was called Bozbaba. From the 1930s Metaxas dictatorship through the Greek Civil War, Agios Efstratios served as a remote exile and prison island for political dissidents -- second in scale only to Makronisos -- housing figures such as composer Mikis Theodorakis and poet Yiannis Ritsos. On 19 February 1968, a magnitude-7.1 earthquake destroyed most of the original village; it was rebuilt nearby in a uniform, military-style layout of concrete prefabricated houses that still stands today.
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Rendered live from Postgres for aistratis.gr.