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It was Periander who first considered to open a Canal
through the Isthmos.
Demetrios Poliorketes seriously considered the idea and started working
on it,
but he was warned that the difference in sea levels would drawn Aigina
and other
small islands. Nero sent 6000 slave Jews who dug a ditch 3300
meters in length
and 40 meters wide, but the project was abandoned. Herod of
Atticos,
the Byzantines, the Venetians, they all tried. The Canal was opened
after the
Greek independence and between the years 1882 - 1893. It is 6346m
long,
and the width is 24,6m at sea level, the depth of the sea is 8m. |
