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Extract from the Symi Town Travel Guides:
SYMI
, the island's capital and only proper town, consists of
Yials
, the excellent natural port, and
Hori
, on the hillside above. Incredibly, less than a hundred years ago the place was richer and more populous (25,000) than Rdhos Town, its wealth generated by shipbuilding and sponge-diving, skills nurtured since pre-Classical times. Under the Ottomans, Symi, like most of the smaller Dodecanese, enjoyed considerable autonomy in exchange for a yearly tribute in sponges to the sultan; but the Italian-imposed frontier, the 1919-22 Greco-Turkish war, the advent of synthetic sponges and the gradual replacemen...
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