The ancient city of Kos is the Greek city and the center of the municipality, which is located on the northeastern coast of the island of Kos, which is located within the Aegean Sea, opposite the Turkish coast and is approximately 8 km from the coast of the Halicarnassus peninsula, which is located at the present time in Turkey. The ancient city has approximately seventeen thousand inhabitants, and thus it is the second largest city in the southern Aegean region, after the city of Rhodes.

Despite the obscurity of the ancient history of this deadly place, some believe that it was the Doric settlement, since the Dorians conquered the island of Kos in the eleventh century BC. The income of this city at that time depended entirely on silk, the fine wine that the island works to produce, and it was ruled during the Greco-Persian wars by tyrants and sometimes by oligarchic governments, and then became part of the Delianic Association, which is known as the Delianic Alliance, which fought the Persians And he expelled them twice from the eastern Aegean, and in the late fifth century BC it became the most important Athenian base in the southeastern Aegean region, and democracy was established in it in the year 366 BC.

It is a very amazing little city, the small streets lined with the market and the beautiful harbor with the castle and with the presence of picturesque restaurants and the presence of ancient ruins all make up this perfect city, this city is known as the city of love Kos, it never fails to impress the visitor, you can sit In the pub in front of the harbour, have refreshments while watching the boats arrive and depart, people watch, visit the nearby Tree of Hippocrates, walk the centuries old bridges which then connect to newer and more modern buildings, sit in the pubs On the rooftop to see the view of the city which is very nice.