Search results for "Ionian Islands" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the Strait of Otranto, linking it to the Ionian Sea. It has an approximate ... the outer portion being called the Ionian Sea. The name was sometimes ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- retained Crete until 1670. The Ionian Islands were only briefly ruled ... rule was in Constantinople and the Ionian islands, where many Greeks lived ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- of his middle name), one of the Greek Ionian Islands. He was the son of Surgeon ... a correspondent. He spent two years in the islands and produced Two Years in ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- Brazil), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon. * The German group * The Scandinavian group (comprising the laws ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- of the mainland but not extending to the Ionian islands or Anatolia, which suggests that the Iliad reproduces an account of events handed down by ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- of raiding the coasts of Italy and the islands of the Mediterranean that ... force which captured the Aegean and Ionian islands belonging to the Republic ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- 500 B.C.E., Athens sent troops to aid the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor, who ... as people migrated from the villages and islands to find work. Greek entry ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- remote antiquity. Ithaca, an island along the Ionian coastline of Greece, is one of several islands that would have comprised the realm of Odysseus ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- but did not extend his realm to the islands of the Aegean Sea. ... Persian satraps of Asia Minor installed tyrants in most of Ionian ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- Macedon, which had been weakened by the Ionian Revolt. Although successful ... operation to subjugate the Cyclades islands in the central Aegean and ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- or cist-graves and fortifications (Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern ... the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- peninsula of Attica, spread out across the islands of the Aegean Sea; Athens ... Athenians, and their ally in Sicilia, were Ionian. The Athenians felt obliged ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- hoping for a gift of the Ionian Islands, which were then a British ... the British government would cede the Ionian Islands to Greece in honor of ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- retained Crete until 1670. The Ionian Islands were only briefly ruled ... I (1845-1913) and brought with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- (33 miles), connecting the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. ... (Ionia) was built around 520 B.C.E. by the Ionian engineer Eupalinos. Eupalinos ...17 KB (2,599 words) - 00:21, 3 May 2023
- of Greece, with the exception of the Ionian Islands, the Agrafa Mountains ... Kapodistrias, an official from the Ionian Islands who had become the Russian ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west and a coast on the ... long and stretches on the Adriatic and the Ionian seas. ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- times by Greeks: Cyprus and the Aegean islands, the Aegean coast of Anatolia ... C.E. In 499 B.C.E., the Greeks rose in the Ionian Revolt, and Athens and some ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- on the Hercules, arriving at Kefalonia in the Ionian Islands on August 2. He spent £4,000 of his own money to refit the Greek fleet, then sailed for ...22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
- The Aeolian Islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily ... A tsunami immediately ensued along the Ionian coasts of Sicily and the ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
