Kastellorizo or Castellorizo, officially Megisti, is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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10 Facts About Kastellorizo
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Kastellorizo is the easternmost Greek island and is situated in the Levantine Sea.
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Between 1828 and 1833 Kastellorizo joined the Greek insurgents, but after the end of the Greek War of Independence it came back into the possession of the Ottoman Empire.
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At that time, Kastellorizo was still the only safe harbor along the route between Makri and Beirut.
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Kastellorizo had a few Jewish merchant families living there during the Ottoman period.
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Kastellorizo's inhabitants had characteristic traditions, partly influenced by the Muslim tradition.
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Kastellorizo's drew signs of the cross on the body of the child with a thurible filled with embers and branches of the olive tree which had been gathered in the church on Palm Sunday, pronouncing the following words: "Christ came: then he laid down his stick and chased away the snake and the bad neighbor from our home".
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Kastellorizo lends its name to David Gilmour's instrumental track "Castellorizon" from his album On an Island .
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Kastellorizo stayed on the island in the early 1990s with his wife, Polly Samson, and many close friends.
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