Archangelos, Rhodes

Archangelos (Greek: Αρχάγγελος) is a town and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece.

[2] Archangelos is located about 30 kilometers south of the town of Rhodes on the island's east coast at an elevation of 160 meters.

The municipal unit of Archangelos has a land area of 115.375 km²,[3] and includes several other towns, the largest of which are Malónas (pop.

Numerous small settlements existed in the broader area of Archangelos during the Hellenistic era, others on the coast and others inland.

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Knights Hospitaller who were occupying the island of Rhodes since 1309, built a fortress (some sort of an Acropolis) on top of one of the town's nearby hills to protect from a possible Ottoman invasion on the island.

Ruins of the castle of St. John
The bell tower of Archangel Michael's Orthodox church, the town's patron