Cos (city)

Cos or Kos (Ancient Greek: Κῶς) was a city of ancient Greece on the island of the same name.^[1] In 366 BCE, the inhabitants of the town of Astypalaea abandoned their town to populate Cos.^[2][3] Cos was a member of the Dorian Pentapolis, whose sanctuary was on the Triopian promontory.^[4] Under the Athenian rule it had no walls, and it was first fortified by Alcibiades at the close of the Peloponnesian War.^[5] In subsequent times it shared the general fate of the neighbouring coasts and islands. Antoninus Pius rebuilt the city, after it had been destroyed by an earthquake.^[6]

Its site is located near modern Kos.^[1][7]

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  An Ancient Roman mosaic depicting the Abduction of Europa in the House of Europa in the Western Archaeological Zone of Kos town
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  Ruins of the Ancient Gymnasion
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  View of the Asclepeion
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  View of the ancient Odeon