Qualla: Kimolos https://qualla.com/kimolos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/3/kimolos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kimolos https://qualla.com/kimolos Kimolos: Introduction https://qualla.com/kimolos/ Photo credit Nikitas277, CC BY-SA 3.0. Theodore Bent arrived on Kimolos in December 1883 and found something the ancient world had prized for centuries: a white porous stone, easy to cut, that hardened with time. The ancients called it terra Kimolia — Kimolian Earth — and from it they made fuller's earth, used across the Mediterranean to clean and finish wool cloth. Bend noted the stone matter-of-factly, as if such things were ordinary. On Kimolos, they are. The island's silver-colored southern cliffs gave it its medieval name, Argentiera, and the substance those cliffs yielded made it, for a time, indispensable.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/3/kimolos-wp/sw93-kimolos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kimolos: Chalk and Silver https://qualla.com/kimolos/ Photo credit Kritzolina, CC BY-SA 4.0. Kimolos lies just 1 kilometer northeast of Milos, separated from its larger neighbor by a narrow channel. It is small — 36 square kilometers, roughly circular, about 7 kilometers in radius — and its highest point, Mount Paleokastro, reaches 364 meters. The island belongs to the s...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/3/kimolos-wp/sw93-kimolos-chalk-and-silver.mp3 0:06 2 full Kimolos: A Stone That Grows Its Own Shape https://qualla.com/kimolos/ Photo credit Pitichinaccio, CC BY 3.0. The most arresting natural feature on the island is a formation called Skiadi. In the middle of a small interior valley stands a huge mushroom-shaped rock, the product of centuries of wind erosion. The process is called ablation: wind-carried dust continuously abrades the rock's ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/3/kimolos-wp/sw93-kimolos-a-stone-that-grows-its-own-shape.mp3 0:06 3 full Kimolos: Between Athens and Sparta https://qualla.com/kimolos/ Photo credit edited by M.Minderhoud, Public domain. Kimolos has been caught between larger powers before. In antiquity, the island was a contested point between Athens, which held Kimolos, and Sparta, which controlled neighboring Milos. The two communities were rivals across the narrow channel — culturally different (Milos was Dor...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/3/kimolos-wp/sw93-kimolos-between-athens-and-sparta.mp3 0:06 4 full Kimolos: The Island That Stays Quiet https://qualla.com/kimolos/ Photo credit Oliwan, CC BY-SA 3.0. The main settlement, Chorio, sits on a hill in the island's southeast. Below it, the port of Psathi handles the ferry connection to Milos and Piraeus. There are other small settlements — Goupa, Prasa, Aliki, Bonatsa — scattered around the island's perimeter, each one small enough...

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