Ithaca (38o20’58.53’’N – 20o41’40.59’’E)

The island has been inhabited since the 2nd millennium BC. It was the capital of Kefalonia during the Mycenaean period. Through the Trojan War it was ruled by the legendary king Odysseus. The Romans occupied the island in the 2nd century BC, and later it became part of the Byzantine empire. The Normans ruled Ithaca in the 12th and 13th century, and after a short Turkish rule it fell into Venetian hands. Ithaca was then occupied by France at the end of the 18th century and in 1809 it was conquered by the British. In 1864 Greeks liberated it.