(a bread roll filled with salted pork). The island also has other traditional products such as honey and various types of cheese. Beaches Kythnos has more than 90 beaches, many of which are still inaccessible by road. Of particular note is the crescent-shaped isthmus of fine sand at Kolona. Other beaches are: Episkopi, Apokrousi, Megali Ammos, Schinari, Simousi, Martinakia, Zogaki, Naoussa, Kouri, Agios Stefanos, Vasilika, Lefkes & Liotrivi. Notable people Timanthes (4th century BC), painter Ignatius of Mariupol (1716–1786), bishop, founder of Mariupol Giorgos Zambetas 1925–1992, composer Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, military officer In popular culture Clive Barker's story Babel's Children is set in Kythnos. Gallery References Sources Bent, James Theodore, "The Cyclades: Life Among the Insular Greeks," 1885, reprinted in 2002 by Archaeopress, Oxford. Chapter 17 recounts his impressions of Kythnos Freely, John (2006). The Cyclades : discovering the Greek islands of the Aegean. London: I.B. Tauris. . . Herodotus, "The History," translated by David Greene, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, paperback edition, 1988 Smith, William, ed., "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography," 1854. Can be accessed at the Perseus Project. Vallinda, Antoniou, "History of the Island of Kythnos," monograph (in Greek), 1896, reprinted by the Syndesmos Kythnion, Athens, 1990. Βάλληνδα, Αντωνίου (1882). Κυθνιακά ήτοι της νήσου Κύθνου χωρογραφία και ιστορία μετά του βίου των συγχρόνων Κυθνίων εν ω ήθη και έθη και γλώσσα και γένη κλπ. Εν Ερμουπόλει: Τυπ. της "Προόδου". Βάλληνδα, Αντωνίου (1896). Ιστορία της νήσου Κύθνου . Αθήνα. Κορδατζή-Πρασσά, Αναστασία (1996-01-01). Η ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ ΣΤΙΣ ΚΥΚΛΑΔΕΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟ (1828-1832). Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ), Σχολή Φιλοσοφική, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας. . Χρυσού-Καρατζά, Κυριακή (2006). Τροφή και διατροφή στις Κυκλάδες (19ος-20ος αι.). Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ). Σχολή Φιλοσοφική. Τμήμα Φιλολογίας. Τομέας Βυζαντινής Φιλολογίας και Λαογραφίας. . External links GigaCatholic - former bishopric of Thermia Islands of Greece Municipalities of the South Aegean Members of the Delian League Greek city-states Populated places in the ancient Aegean islands Populated places in Kea-Kythnos