Search results for "Ionian Sea" - 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
- |place=Ionian sea, near the Roman colony of Actium, Greece ... fought on September 2, 31 B.C.E., on the Ionian Sea near the Roman colony of ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- * By the Ionian Sea (1901) * Our Friend the Charlatan (1901) ... * Keahey, John. A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea ...9 KB (1,444 words) - 10:40, 13 December 2023
- a town in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. In 1891, Hearn married ... of his middle name), one of the Greek Ionian Islands. He was the son of ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- on the Acropolis and its access to the sea, which gave it a natural advantage ... the Athenian naval supremacy in the Aegean Sea and beyond. He preserved the ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- and demanded the sacrifice of Hesione to a sea monster. Pestilence came and ... the Greek Dark Ages. Even though Homer was Ionian, the Iliad reflects the geography ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- ships sailed from the Nile through the Red Sea by Saba to Persia. Darius ... River Don) they were quite near to the Black Sea. Of course the expedition ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- engaged in marine affairs and international sea trade. The first brother to ... Oruç Governor of Algiers and Chief Sea Governor of the Western Mediterranean ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- to Persia which was forced out of the Aegean Sea. The war ended but the Greeks ... extend his realm to the islands of the Aegean Sea. Herodotus I,26-27 ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- antiquity. Ithaca, an island along the Ionian coastline of Greece, is one ... his arms to his father, Poseidon, god of the sea. He asks him not to allow ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- long tunnels both above ground and below the sea to advance human unity as ... (Ionia) was built around 520 B.C.E. by the Ionian engineer Eupalinos. Eupalinos ...17 KB (2,599 words) - 00:21, 3 May 2023
- Macedon, which had been weakened by the Ionian Revolt. Although successful ... and Athens for their assistance in the Ionian revolt. Eretria was besieged ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- spread out across the islands of the Aegean Sea; Athens drew its immense wealth ... itself was able to maintain access to the sea, and did not suffer much. ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the Aegean sea. Ancient Greek writers recanted ... with masts. Their familiarity with the sea has been proven by the free ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea south of the Anatolian peninsula ... The third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- hoping for a gift of the Ionian Islands, which were then a British ... that the British government would cede the Ionian Islands to Greece in honor ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- island of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Bronze Age. They ... plain is cut off from its neighbors by the sea or mountain ranges. ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- Sea to the west and a coast on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It has ... Albania's coastline on the Ionian Sea, especially near the Greek ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Aspasia was born around 470 B.C.E. in the Ionian Greek colony of Miletus ... to the famous Thargelia, another renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times. ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both ... groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian Sea islands. ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
