Place:Kea, Kykladon, South Aegean, Greece

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NameKea
Alt namesChorasource: Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) p 446
Ioulissource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 473
Kéasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCity or town
Coordinates37.633°N 24.333°E
Located inKykladon, South Aegean, Greece
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Kea, also known as Tzia and in antiquity Keos, is a Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos regional unit.

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Historical population

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The French traveler Jean de Thévenot reported 700 houses in the main town of Kea, now Ioulida, in 1656 (his compatriot the botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort guessed 2500 in 1700). The Greek historian Ioannis Psyllas estimated a population of more than 7000 on the island in 1821, a number that dropped sharply due to a plague outbreak that killed 1600 to 2000 Keans in 1823.

Official Greek census data shows a population of around 4000 in the 19th century, decreasing gradually until 1981 and then beginning to rebound under the influence of tourism.

Year Island population
1835 3,202
1853 4,162
1856 4,297
1861 3,498
1870 3,789
1879 4,311
1889 3,863
1896 4,975
1907 3,817
1920 3,575
1940 3,764
1951 3,108
1961 2,361
1971 1,666
1981 1,648
1991 1,797
2001 2,417
2011 2,455
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