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Tire a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea part of the archipelago of the Cyclades. The length of the coastline is 70 km. Tira along with the islands of Tirasia Palea-Kameni Nea-Kameni and Aspronisi is part of a group of islands in the form of a ring, called Santorini and giving the second name to the island itself.

The oldest population of Fira which appeared here around 3000 BC. The presence of the influence of the Minoan Crete was established during excavations on Akrotiri when a whole village of two or three storey houses decorated with frescoes resembled a wall painting of Minoan palaces from under a 40-meter layer of volcanic ash. During this period the island must have been called Strongila (Round) because of its shape since the Santorini volcano which was in the center of the island and had a height of 1.5 km at that time had not yet begun its destructive effect.

After filling the volcano's mouth with water it evaporated and a huge explosion which caused a huge tsunami supposedly from 100 to 200 meters in height that hit the northern coast of Crete. The tsunami was the result of the decline of the Minoan civilization (excavations on the island of Crete showed that the Minoan civilization existed after the eruption of the volcano since a large number of Minoan buildings are above the volcanic ash layer but the economic damage to maritime trade fishing and agriculture in the coastal plains Was irreplaceable). The catastrophe was completed by strong earthquakes and volcanic ash thrown out for a considerable distance.

It can be assumed that the catastrophic eruption of the volcano on the island of Tire which gave rise to the tsunami formed the basis of the biblical tales of a worldwide flood. Tsunami several dozen meters high destroyed everything that was on the islands of the Aegean Sea Crete, coastal Greek settlements northern Egypt all who lived on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and for a thousand years suspended the development of civilizations.

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