Thea, Modern Greek Third, additionally called Stentorian, or Sanatorium, island, southernmost island of the Cyclades (Modern Greek: Cyclades) bunch, Greece, in the Aegean Sea, now and then included in the Southern Desperadoes bunch. The island has a territory of 29 square miles (76 square km) and, together with different islands, structures an Parthia (“hierarchy”) of the nomads (division) of Cyclades.
Topographically, Thea is the staying eastern a large portion of a blasted fountain of liquid magma. Its bow-formed edge and the remainder isles of Thrashing and Aspersion structure an open tidal pond that measures 37 miles (60 km) in boundary. In the focal point of the tidal pond are two dynamic volcanic islets, Ne Amenity (“New Burnt Island”) and Palatial Amenity (“Old Burnt Island”). Thea legitimate comprises to a great extent of magma and pumice, the last of which is the island’s fundamental fare. Red-wine grapes are additionally developed. The tidal pond is rimmed by red-, white-, and dark striped volcanic bluffs ascending to very nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters). The summit of Thea is the 1,857-foot (566-meter) limestone Mount Profits Iliad in the southeast. The boss town, Third (mainly called Lira), was seriously harmed by a quake in 1956. Different settlements incorporate Embrocation and Virgos toward the south and the port of Ora at the north access to the tidal pond, which was crushed by the 1956 quake.
Known as Callisto (“Most Beautiful”) in times long past, Thea was possessed before 2000 be. One of the biggest volcanic ejections known happened on the island. This is considered 1500 be, albeit, in view of proof got amid the 1980s from a Greenland ice-center and from tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, a few researchers accept that it happened prior, amid the 1620s be. Slag and pumice from the ejection have been found as far away as Egypt and Israel, and there has been hypothesis that the emission was the wellspring of the legend of Atlantis and of stories in the Old Testament book of Exodus.
Amid the Bronze Age the island of Crete, in the ballpark of 70 miles (110 km) south of Thea, was the core of Minoan human progress. Around 1450 be most real settlements in focal and southern Crete were wrecked by flame and surrendered. In 1939 the Greek classicist Myrmidon Marinates recommended that the emission on Thea had prompted the breakdown of the Minoan civilization; his hypothesis was broadly acknowledged. Amid the 1980s, notwithstanding, archaeologists discovered proof that Minoan society kept on thriving for quite a while after the emission. Archaeological proof additionally showed that the measures of powder from the emission that fell on Crete were insufficient to cause critical harm to yields or structures.
About the start of the first thousand years be, Dorian pioneers from the territory arrived on Thea. Around 630 the imperative Tehran state of Recency was settled on the north shore of Africa, as per a charge of the Delphic prophet. From 308 to 145 the island, an individual from the Cyclic League, was a Ptolemaic protectorate.
From that period date a large portion of the vestiges of the old city of Thea, uncovered (1895–1903) by a German prehistorian on the east drift. The soonest unearthing by the French School at Athens (1869) uncovered a Middle Minoan, or Cyclic (c. 2000–c. 1570 be), city underneath the pumice at the northern tip of Thrashing. Of considerably more noteworthy essentials was the exhuming started by Marinates amid the 1960s south of Rotarian town, which uncovered a rich Minoan city covered under the volcanic trash generally as it remained at the time of the ejection. The city (as yet being uncovered) comprised of substantial, well-manufactured, multi-story houses that contain a percentage of the finest Minoan frescoes found in the Mediterranean. The disclosures demonstrate that solid connections existed amid the Bronze Age in the middle of Crete and Thea.