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Rhodes: Charles Bray took this picture of the fortress of the Knights in the Old Town of Rhodes close to the Restaurant Plaka in which according to history we were told that nearly some 6,000 people, who live and work in the same buildings in which the Knights of St. John lived six centuries ago; as a living monument to the past, at that time during the years of Turkish occupation, the Greeks were expelled from the Old Town, which was the exclusive province of Turks and Jews. Greeks were allowed to enter only during daytime and those who were caught in the old town after dark were liable to be beheaded. The Knights, Initially a religious and military order founded in Jerusalem as the St. Johns Hospital order in 7th century B.C. They took part in all the wars in the Holly Land against the Muslims. In 1308 they moved to the island of Rhodes and in 1529, after surrendering the city to the Turks, moved to Malta and then, in 1834, to Rome.
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Eastern Europe
