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Kastellorizo: Tiny Island, Colossal Dispute
Though the official name of the Greek island of Kastellorizo, Megisti, means “biggest”, its area is a minuscule 11.98 square kilometers and its population barely 500 people.
It is the smallest of Greece’s Dodecanese islands.
This otherwise largely forgotten scrap of land has gained new fame, however—not because of a revival of the award-winning movie that was filmed there (Mediterraneo, 1991) but…
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Greece’s northern Aegean islands are suffering the extreme burden of a constant flow of illegal migrants who now populate islands like Lesbos in the same numbers as do the locals.
Kastellorizo is one of the…