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thumb|Assos village on the northwest coast of Kefalonia, Greece thumb|Assos village on the northwest coast of Kefalonia, Greece Asos () is a village on the west coast of the island of Cephalonia, Greece and is located 36km north of Argostoli. It is part of the municipal unit Erisos.
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- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Ερίσου
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ιονίων Νήσων
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 82
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- human settlement
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 88
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- Assos (Kefalonia)
- located in/on physical feature
- Cephalonia
- native label
- Άσος
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thumb|Assos village on the northwest coast of Kefalonia, Greece thumb|Assos village on the northwest coast of Kefalonia, Greece Asos () is a village on the west coast of the island of Cephalonia, Greece and is located 36km north of Argostoli. It is part of the municipal unit Erisos.
Asos was founded under Venetian rule and it served as the administrative capital of northern Cephalonia from 1593 onwards. Marino Gentilini, an Italian army engineer, was commissioned by the Venetian Senate in 1593-1595 to build the Assos Castle, one of the largest in Greece. The castle was initially built with the view that it would protect local populations in case of an invading attack by passing Turks or pirates, but for various reasons, such as the lack of natural springs for water supply, it was never adopted as a fortress and gradually the grand plan was dropped.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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