Kimolos island

Traveling with M/S DOXA II to Kimolos which is an island in the Aegean Sea, you will find out that it’s at the south-west part of Cyclades and has distance of 1,6 km north-east of Milos. Kimolos has about 769 inhabitants and includes administratively the uninhabited islands Polyaigos, Agios Georgios and Agios Efstathios.

For the history knower an older name of Kimolos was Echinousa. Its current name originates from Kimolos, the person who according to ancient Greek tradition was the first to establish on the island. During the Middle Ages it was occupied by Venetians and named Argentiera. It was united with Greece along with the rest of Cyclades after the Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829.