Dionysades
Sign in to saveThe Dionysades (, also Γιανυσάδες - Gianysades) is a small, northward-trending archipelago off the north coast of the island of Crete, mid-way between the Cape Sidero lighthouse to the southeast (from which they are about distant); and Sitia to the southwest (from which they are approximately distant). Although the island group is uninhabited, it administratively falls within the Sitia municipal unit of the Lasithi Region, Crete Regional Administration. The group includes the islands of Dragonada, Gianysada, Paximadaki, and Paximada.
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- Dionysades
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- Διονυσάδες
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- Distant view of the Dionysades group from Sitia
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- This north–south alignment of Crete depicts the northeast promontory at the top. The Dionysiades are to the north (upper left).
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- Crete
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- Lasithi
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Environment
- Geography
- Gianysada
- Dragonada
- Paximada
- Paximadaki
- Geology
- Hydrology
- Reference maps
- See also
- References
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The Dionysades (, also Γιανυσάδες - Gianysades) is a small, northward-trending archipelago off the north coast of the island of Crete, mid-way between the Cape Sidero lighthouse to the southeast (from which they are about distant); and Sitia to the southwest (from which they are approximately distant). Although the island group is uninhabited, it administratively falls within the Sitia municipal unit of the Lasithi Region, Crete Regional Administration. The group includes the islands of Dragonada, Gianysada, Paximadaki, and Paximada.
==Etymology== The name, Dionysades, is an ancient one. Diodorus Siculus mentions it in his Bibliotheca Historica. According to Siculus, there were three gods named Dionysus, this one having been born on Crete of parents Zeus and Persephone. He was an agricultural innovator of mythical proportions, having invented the plough. He was the first to cultivate vines and manufacture wine. For unspecified reasons, Dionysus took it upon himself to create two islands, "...near Crete in the twin gulfs (Didymoi Kolpoi)..."