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Encyclopedia - Aegean Sea: Encyclopedia - Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea (Greek: Αιγαίον Πέλαγος, Aigaion Pelagos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an arm of the M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mati: Encyclopedia - Mati
Mati (Greek: Mατι meaning eye) is a small idyllic village in Greece. It is located at the east coast of the Attica region, 29 kilomete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization: Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization
Aegean civilization is the general term for the prehistoric civilizations in Greece and the Aegean. It was formerly called "Mycenaean" be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Ancient Greece
There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning or the end of the Ancient Greek period. In common usage it refers to all...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Civilization - History Of Aegean Civilization
In the absence of written records, only a summary history can be derived from monuments and archaeological remains. But the decipherment ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Ancient Greece
There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning or the end of the Ancient Greek period. In common usage it refers to al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tyre: Encyclopedia - Tyre
Tyre (Arabic الصور aṣ-Ṣūr, native Phoenician Ṣur, Latin Tyrus, Akkadian Ṣurru, Tiberian Hebrew צר Ṣōr, Greek Τύρο�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Plataea: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Plataea
The Battle of Plataea took place in 479 BC between an alliance of Greek city-states Sparta, Athens, Corinth, Megara, and others against t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Salamis: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Salamis
The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle between the Greek city-states and Persia, fought in September, 480 BC in the straits between Pir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indigenous Peoples: Encyclopedia - Indigenous Peoples
The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition. Several widely-accepted formulations have been put forward by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica: Encyclopedia - Attica
Attica (in Greek: Αττική, Attike; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Thermopylae: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Thermopylae
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in a mountain pass. Though vast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belgrade: Encyclopedia - Belgrade
Belgrade (listen ▶ (help·info)), is the capital of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–Present). It is one of the oldest cities in Europe se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cayster River: Encyclopedia - Cayster River
Cayster River is located south of Izmir, Turkey. The Cayster generally flows westward into the Aegean Sea. The ancient city of Ephesus wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyclades: Encyclopedia - Cyclades
The Cyclades, from the Greek Κυκλάδες, ("circular," modern Greek Kykládes; see also List of traditional Greek place names) form ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cape Malea: Encyclopedia - Cape Malea
Cape Malea is a peninsula in the southeast of the Peloponnese in Greece. It separates the Ionian Sea in the west from the Aegean Sea in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dardanelles: Encyclopedia - Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (Greek: Δαρδανελλια, Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı), formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1966: Encyclopedia - 1966
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) 1966 - Events. 1966 - January. January 1 - In a coup, C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transcontinental Nation: Encyclopedia - Transcontinental Nation
A transcontinental nation is a country belonging to more than one continent. The definitions used may vary according to which criteria ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crusader States: Encyclopedia - Crusader States
The Crusader states were the feudal territories created by Catholic Western Europeans during Holy Wars, called crusades because they carr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia - History Of Athens
The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years. It was the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy: Encyclopedia - Troy
Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is descri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Santorini: Encyclopedia - Santorini
Santorini (Greek Σαντορίνη) is a small, circular group of volcanic islands located in the Aegean Sea, about 200 km south-east fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Delian League: Encyclopedia - Delian League
The Delian League was an association of Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. It was led by Athens. Because many of the league's Polis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agia Paraskevi Lesbos Greece: Encyclopedia - Agia Paraskevi Lesbos Greece
Agia Paraskevi is one of Lesbos' last remaining traditional villages. Lesbos is a prefecture of Greece, consisting of a number of islands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Turkey: Encyclopedia - Turkey
(Turkish: Yurtta Barış, Dünyada Barış) The Republic of Turkey or Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), is a bicontinental country located main...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 17th Century Bc: Encyclopedia - 17th Century Bc
17th century BC - Events. 1700 – 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests. 1700 BC - Belu-bani became the King of Assyria. c. 1700 BC - Lila-Ir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemisia: Encyclopedia - Artemisia
Artemisia was the daughter of Lygdamis and was set up as the tyrant of Halicarnassus by the Persians, who were at the time the overlords ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 8th Millennium Bc: Encyclopedia - 8th Millennium Bc
(9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – other millennia) 8th millennium BC - Events. Circa 8000 BC–Settlem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archipelago: Encyclopedia - Archipelago
An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. Archipelagoes usually occur in the open sea; less commonly ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agios Efstratios: Encyclopedia - Agios Efstratios
Agios Efstratios (or Αγιος Ευστράτιος in Greek), Saint Eustratius, is a very quiet, isolated, unvegetated, small isle betw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexandroupoli: Encyclopedia - Alexandroupoli
Alexandroupoli (also Alexandroupolis, Greek: Αλεξανδρούπολη - Alexandroúpoli) is a city of Greece and the capital of the E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greece: Encyclopedia - Greece
Greece, (Greek: Ελλάδα, older form: Ελλάς, Hellas), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andros: Encyclopedia - Andros
Andros, or Andro (Greek: Άνδρος), an island of the Greek archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km (6 m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegeus: Encyclopedia - Aegeus
In Greek mythology, Aegeus, also Aigeus, Aegeas or Aigeas, was the father of Theseus and an Athenian King. He was the son of Pandion II a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minos: Encyclopedia - Minos
In Greek mythology, Minos was a semi-legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. The Minoan civilization has been named after him. B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alistair Maclean: Encyclopedia - Alistair Maclean
Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist, writer of successful thrillers or adventures, the be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire was one of several political states founded after the death of Alexander the Great, whose generals squabbled over th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crete: Encyclopedia - Crete
Crete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located at app...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sea: Encyclopedia - Sea
A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cardinal Direction: Encyclopedia - Cardinal Direction
Four directions are north, east, south and west. Or forward, back, left and right. Cardinal directions or cardinal points are the four pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chalcidice: Encyclopedia - Chalcidice
Chalkidikí or Chalcidice (in Greek: Χαλκιδική, alternative romanizations Khalkidhikí) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Mycenaean Greece Bronze Age
Mycenaean Greece, also known as Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece. It lasted from the arr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corinth Canal: Encyclopedia - Corinth Canal
The Corinth Canal is a canal connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the Isthmus of Corin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Medieval Greece
The history of the Byzantine Empire is described by scholar August Heisenberg as the history "of the Roman state of the Greek nation, tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Creation Of The Modern Greek State
The Ottomans ruled Greece until the early 19th century. In 1821, the Greeks rebelled in the Greek War of Independence and declared their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Medieval Greece
The history of the Byzantine Empire is described by scholar August Heisenberg as the history "of the Roman state of the Greek nation, tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Columbus: Encyclopedia - Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Roman Period
Militarily Greece itself declined to the point that the Romans conquered the land (168 BC onwards), though Greek culture would in turn co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chios: Encyclopedia - Chios
Chios (Italian: Scio, Turkish: Sakız, Χίος; alternative transliterations Khios and Hios, see also List of traditional Greek place na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Silver: Encyclopedia - Silver
Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the traditional abbreviation for the Latin argentum). A soft white lustrous transit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ephesus: Encyclopedia - Ephesus
Ephesus (Greek: Έφεσσος; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Asia ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1673: Encyclopedia - 1673
1673 - Events. January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Medieval Greece
The history of the Byzantine Empire is described by scholar August Heisenberg as the history "of the Roman state of the Greek nation, tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnos: Encyclopedia - Lemnos
Lemnos (mod. Limnos Greek: Λήμνος Turkish: Limni), an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. The island, part of the Greek ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Ottoman Rule And The Rise Of Modern Greece
Main articles: Ottoman Greece and History of Modern Greece When the Ottomans arrived, two Greek migrations occurred. The first migration ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samothrace: Encyclopedia - Samothrace
Samothrace (in Greek: Σαμοθρακη, Samothraki, Turkish: Semadrek) is an island in Greece, in the northern Aegean Sea. The name of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nereus: Encyclopedia - Nereus
Poseidon Oceanus Ceto Nereus Glaucus Thetis Amphitrite Tethys Triton Ophion Proteus Phorcys Pontus Oceanids Nereids Naiads Nereus: i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Young Turks: Encyclopedia - Young Turks
The Young Turks were a Turkish patriotic constitutionalist society, officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) — in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Hellenistic Greece
The Hellenistic period of Greek history begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends with the annexation of the Greek ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corinth: Encyclopedia - Corinth
Corinth, or Korinth (Κόρινθος; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek city, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine Kanaris: Encyclopedia - Constantine Kanaris
Constantine Kanaris (or Canaris, Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Κανάρης) (1793 or 1795 – September 2, 1877) was a Greek admiral...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Civilization - Evidence Of Aegean Civilization
For details of monumental evidence the articles on Crete, Mycenae, Tiryns, Troad, Cyprus, etc., must be consulted. The most representativ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Civilization - Commerce
Commerce was practised to some extent in very early times, as is proved by the distribution of Melian obsidian over all the Aegean area a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Civilization - Distinctive Features
The uniqueness of Aegean civilization has never been in doubt, since its remains came to be studied seriously. For a time the surviving r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kea Island: Encyclopedia - Kea Island
Kea, also known as Gia (Κέα / Τζια in Greek), Tzia and Keos (Ancient: Κέως), is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancomah: Encyclopedia - Ancomah
Ancomah (Antzomakh, Antzimah) is a mythological place which was first mentioned by Hasan Umur in the 1940s, approximately fifty meters in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Mycenaean Greece Bronze Age
Mycenaean Greece, also known as Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece. It lasted from the arr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White Sea: Encyclopedia - White Sea
The White Sea (Бе́лое мо́ре) is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the North Western coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Ii Villehardouin: Encyclopedia - William Ii Villehardouin
William II Villehardouin (died May 1, 1278) was the last Villehardouin prince of Achaea and ruled the principality at the height of its p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civilization: Encyclopedia - Civilization
The word civilization (or civilisation) has a variety of meanings related to human society. The term comes from the Latin civis, meaning ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Greek Dark Ages
The Greek Dark Ages (ca. 1200 BC–800 BC) refers to the period of Greek prehistory from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Myce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Civilization - The Discovery Of Aegean Civiliation
The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great "Treasury of Atreus" had borne silent w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Color Metaphors For Race: Encyclopedia - Color Metaphors For Race
In some societies, color metaphors for race, often originating from differences in human skin color, are used in racial classifications. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Mycenaean Greece Bronze Age
Mycenaean Greece, also known as Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece. It lasted from the arr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kimon: Encyclopedia - Kimon
Kimon (Greek Κίμων, also spelled Cimon in traditional Classical scholarship contexts) (510, Athens-450 BCE, Salamis), was an Athenia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Turkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Turkey - Regions
Distinct contrasts between the interior and periphery of Turkey are manifested in its landform regions, climate, soils, and vegetation. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elektra Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Elektra Comics - Character History
Elektra comics - Family and early life. Elektra was born on an unnamed Greek island of the Aegean Sea to Hugo Kostas Natchios and his w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Greece - History
Main Article: History of Greece. Greece - Prehistory and antiquity. The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first ci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ephesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Ephesus - Roman Ephesus
Beginning in the Roman Republic, Ephesus was the capital of proconsular Asia, which covered the western part of Asia Minor. The city bore...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agia Paraskevi Lesbos Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Agia Paraskevi Lesbos Greece - Festivals
The curious Festival of the Bull of Agios Haralambos has been celebrated in the village since 1774. Every year, a bull is sacrificed for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sex: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sex - Sex In Various Cultures
History of sex - The West. In ancient Greece, the phallus was an object of worship as a symbol of fertility. This finds expression in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Greece - History
Main Article: History of Greece. Greece - Prehistory and antiquity. The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first ci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Dispute: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Dispute - Maritime And Areal Zones Of Influence
Several of the Aegean issues deal with the delimitation of both countries' zones of influence in the air and on the sea around their resp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Young Turks: Encyclopedia Ii - Young Turks - Ideology
Until 1902, the CUP was an umbrella organization composed of loosely affliated factions. Young Turks - Liberalism and Constitutionalism....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthodox Church Of Alexandria: Encyclopedia Ii - Orthodox Church Of Alexandria - The Church Today
In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope Petros VII. During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyclades: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyclades - History
The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat female idols carved out of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Decima Flottiglia Mas: Encyclopedia Ii - Decima Flottiglia Mas - Engagements As An Italian Corp
The Decima Flottiglia MAS saw action from June 10, 1940 when Fascist Italy joined in World War II. In more than three years of war, the D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Greece - History
Main Article: History of Greece. Greece - Prehistory and antiquity. The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first ci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1966: Encyclopedia Ii - 1966 - Events
1966 - January. January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Repu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Empire Of Nicaea: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Of Nicaea - Foundation
In 1204, Byzantine emperor Alexius V fled Constantinople rather than face the crusader army in battle. Theodore Lascaris, the son-in-law ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dodecanese: Encyclopedia Ii - Dodecanese - History
The Dodecanese have been inhabited since prehistoric times. In the oldest historic period, they formed part of the Minoan civilization fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ottoman Wars In Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ottoman Wars In Europe - History
Ottoman wars in Europe - 1300s-1456: Ottoman Expansion into Europe. After striking a blow to the weakened Byzantine Empire in 1356 (see...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pelasgians: Encyclopedia Ii - Pelasgians - Classical Greek Uses Of Pelasgian
Pelasgians - In Homer. The ethnonym Pelasgoí (Pelasgians) is of unknown etymology. It first occurs in the poems of Homer: the Pelasgia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ottoman Turks: Encyclopedia Ii - Ottoman Turks - Culture And The Arts
The conquest of Constantinople, made the Ottomans the ruler of one of the most profitable empires on earth, connected to the flourishing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Location Hypotheses Of Atlantis: Encyclopedia Ii - Location Hypotheses Of Atlantis - Eastern Hemisphere
Some investigators believe that Atlantis is in the Eastern Hemisphere, which would have the location in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nea Makri: Encyclopedia Ii - Nea Makri - Population
Until the 1970s, most of the population were rural. As housing developments came to the area, the population boomed and also into the set...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Songs Whose Title Includes Geographical Names: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Songs Whose Title Includes Geographical Names - English
List of songs whose title includes geographical names - English Streets. 0-9 "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack "12 Bellevue" by K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Peloponnesian War: Encyclopedia Ii - Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian War
Sparta and its allies, with the exception of Corinth, were almost exclusively land based powers, able to summon large land armies which w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippi: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippi - Origins
Philippi was founded by the king of Macedon, Philip II, on the site of the Thasian colony of Crenides (Κρηνἱδες, "Fountains"), n...   » Read the article