Talk:Tinos

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I'm not sure how this sentence should end (under Climate): "The Etesian winds that come from northwest India affect the island bringing". ripleyy 07:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The fall of Tinos (1715).

The last Venetian governor, Bernardo Balbi, surrendered to Turkish admiral Ianum Kogia on June 5, 1715 without effective resistance. Therefore the Republic of Venice sentenced Balbi to life imprisonment.

[edit] The sinking of the "Hellì" (1940).

In front of Tinos, on August 15, 1940, the Italian submarine "Delfino" sunk the Greek coastal cruiser "Hellì" more than 2 months before the declaration of war.