13 Facts About Paros

Paros is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea.

The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets totaling 196.

Paros has numerous beaches including Golden Beach near Drios on the east coast, at Pounda, Logaras, Piso Livadi, Naousa Bay, Parikia and Agia Irini.

Story that Paros of Parrhasia colonized the island with Arcadians is an etymological fiction of the type that abounds in Greek legends.

Paros sided with shahanshah Xerxes I of Persia against Greece in the second Greco-Persian War, but, after the battle of Artemisium, the Parian contingent remained inactive at Kythnos as they watched the progression of events.

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Under the Delian League, the Athenian-dominated naval confederacy, Paros paid the highest tribute of the island members: 30 talents annually, according to the estimate of Olympiodorus .

In 410 BC, Athenian general Theramenes discovered that Paros was governed by an oligarchy; he deposed the oligarchy and restored the democracy.

Paros then became part of the Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine Empire, its Greek-speaking successor state.

Paros became subject to the Duchy of the Archipelago, a fiefdom made up of various Aegean islands ruled by a Venetian duke as nominal vassal of a succession of crusader states.

In 1537, Paros was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and remained under the Ottoman Empire until the Greek War of Independence .

Under the Treaty of Constantinople, Paros became part of the newly independent Kingdom of Greece, the first time the Parians had been ruled by fellow Greeks for over six centuries.

Archaeological Museum of Paros is located in Parikia town, a small but interesting museum housing some of the many finds from sites in Paros.

The Paros museum contains a fragment of the Parian Chronicle, a remarkable chronology of ancient Greece.