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'''Amorgos''' ({{lang-langx|el|Αμοργός}}, {{lang|el-Latn|Amorgós}}; {{IPA-el|amorˈɣos|pron}}) is the easternmost island of the [[Cyclades]] island group and the nearest island to the neighboring [[Dodecanese]] island group in [[Greece]]. Along with 16 neighboringneighbouring islets, the largest of which (by land area) is Nikouria Island, it comprises the [[Communities and Municipalities of Greece|municipality]] of Amorgos, which has a land area of {{convert|126.346|km²|3|abbr=off}}<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-21 }}</ref> and at the 2021 census had a population of 1,961.
 
==Geography==
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==History==
[[File:Acropole Arkesini Amorgos.JPG|thumb|Acropolis of Arkesini]]
Throughout history, Amorgos was also known as Yperia, or Platagy, Pagali, Psichia, and Karkisia.<ref name=":0" /> Amorgos features many remnants of ancient civilizations. At the time of [[Archaic Greece]], there were three independent city-states there. They are believed to have featured autonomous constitutions but the same currency. Amorgos is distinguished by the size and quality of the walls surrounding the city of Arkesini, the ancient towers whose remains are scattered around the island, ancient tombs, stone tools, inscriptions, vases and by other antiquities. [[Arcesine]] or Arkesine ({{langx|grc|Ἀρκεσίνη}}) was an ancient town on the island of [[Amorgos]] in the eastern [[Cyclades]]. It was one of the three main settlements on the island in antiquity.<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Ethnica'' s.v.v. Ἀρκεσίνη, Ἀμοργός.</ref>
 
Due to the name Minoa, it is suspected that Amorgos had been colonized by the [[Minoan Civilization|Cretans]] from ancient times,<ref name=":0" /> but there is no archeological evidence supporting this view.<ref>[http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/gh351.jsp?obj_id=2568 Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism (in Greek)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713122200/http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/gh351.jsp?obj_id=2568 |date=July 13, 2010 }}</ref>
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===Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern===
[[File:Amurgo - Cristoforo Buondelmonti - 1420.jpg|thumb|Fifteenth century map by [[Cristoforo Buondelmonti]]]]
 
In the 5th century, Bishop Theodore, who attended a [[synod]] in [[Constantinople]], signed as Bishop of the Parians, Sifnians, and Amoulgians. It was known as ''Yamurgi'' during [[Ottoman Greece|Ottoman rule]] between 1566 and 1829.
 
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[[File:Amorgos-15.jpg|thumb|View of Tholaria village]]
[[File:Amorgos-12.jpg|thumb|upright|Street of Langada village]]
The municipality of Amorgos is subdivided into the following communities (population at 20112021 census and constituent villages within brackets):<ref name="census21" />
*[[Aegiale (Amorgos)|Aigiali]] (514536, Aigiali, Agios Pavlos, [[Ormos Egialis]], Potamos)
*'''Amorgos''' (409, Chora, Kastelopetra)
*[[Arkesini]] (179182, Arkesini, [[Kalotaritissa]], Kalofana, Mavri Myti, Rachoula)
*[[Katapola]] (595568, Katapola, Lefkes, Nera, Xylokeratidi, Pera Rachidi, Rachidi, Christoulaki)
*[[Tholaria]] (189154, Tholaria, Paralia Tholarion)
*[[Vroutsis]] (8775, Vroutsis, Kamari)
 
==Historical population==
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==Landmarks==
[[File:Amorgosmonastere.JPG|thumb|The monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa.]]
{{Further|topic=the ancient town|Arcesine}}
 
The [[monastery]] of Panagia Hozoviotissa is situated on the cliffside, northeast of Chora. It was built early in the second millennium in order to protect a religious icon, dating from the year 812, from intruders. The icon is on public display inside the monastery. Opening time for visitors every day from 8:00&nbsp;a.m. to 1:00 p.m and 5:00&nbsp;p.m. to 7:00&nbsp;p.m. Visitors have to be dressed in a specific way in order to enter. Men have to wear long trousers and women a skirt or a wrap around shift down to the knee, not trousers. The shift may, however, be worn over trousers. As of July 2012, the monastery is active and houses three practicing monks.
 
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