Kameiros

Kameiros (Greek: Κάμειρος) is an ancient city and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rhodes, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies on the northwest coast of the island. It was the heart of an agricultural region, and constituted one of three city states on Rhodes. Kameiros nowadays is a municipal unit stretching inland into the north-central part of Rhodes. The seat of the municipality was in Soroni (pop. 1,236). Other large towns are Apóllona (997), Fanes (895), Salakos (597), and Kalavárda (512). The municipal population was 5,145 at the 2001 census, and the land area is 211.825 km². The ancient city was built on three...