{"id":28240,"date":"2024-11-26T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28240"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:41:34","slug":"samos-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/samos-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Samos Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Samos Island:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Greek island<\/strong> located in the <strong>eastern Aegean Sea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the largest and <strong>most easterly Greek islands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It lies close to the Turkish coasts. It is located just<strong> 1700 mfrom the Asia Minor Turkish Coast.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The area of the island is 478 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It is characterized by steep mountain ranges, sandy beaches, azure sea water, olive groves, and green pine forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mount Kerketeus, the highest peak<\/strong> (1,433 metres), forms the western tip of the island.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>: It has a <strong>Mediterranean climate<\/strong> with long, hot summers and relatively short, mild winters.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>home to<\/strong> the <strong>Pythagoreion and the Heraion of Samos<\/strong>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/unesco-world-heritage-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong>which includes the <strong>Eupalin Aqueduct<\/strong>, a marvel of ancient engineering.<\/li>\n<li>Samos is the <strong>birthplace of<\/strong> the Greek philosopher and mathematician <strong>Pythagoras<\/strong>, for whom the <strong>Pythagorean theorem<\/strong> is named.<\/li>\n<li>It is also the <strong>birthplace of<\/strong> the <strong>famous astronomer<\/strong> of ancient times, <strong>Aristarchus<\/strong>, who <strong>first suggested a heliocentric solar system at 500 B.C.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which is the largest Greek Island?<\/h3>\n<p>Crete is the largest island in Greece, and the fifth largest one in the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/law-order\/3170343-tragedy-at-sea-migrant-boat-sinks-near-samos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tragedy at Sea: Migrant Boat Sinks Near Samos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samos Island is a Greek island located in the eastern Aegean Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}