Aegean Sea

The Crusader states were the feudal territories created by Catholic Western Europeans during Holy Wars, called crusades because they carried cross-markings as symbols of their goal, to establish the Christian faith in territories under the sway of Islam or paganism. It is mainly said of the states founded by crusaders in the Orthodox and Muslim Eastern Mediterranean during the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries. However it can also apply to the other territorial gains (often small and short-lived) elsewhere against Muslim ...

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• Crusader states - Facing Islam
• Crusader states - In the Levant
• Crusader states - Cyprus
• Crusader states - In Greece
• Crusader states - Minor Mediterranean fiefs
• Crusader states - Exterminating Paganism
• Crusader states - Prussia

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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 birthplace of democracy and it became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC. Its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of western civilisation. During the Middle Ages, Athens experienced decline and then a recovery under the Byzantine Empire. Athens was relatively prosperous during the Crusades, benefiting from Italian trade. After a long period o ...

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• History of Athens - Origins and setting
• History of Athens - Early history
• History of Athens - Reform and democracy
• History of Athens - Classical Athens
• History of Athens - Byzantine Athens
• History of Athens - Ottoman Athens
• History of Athens - Modern Athens
• History of Athens - Notable Athenians
• History of Athens - Ancient sites in Athens

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Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homer's Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 8th or 7th century BC, but containing older material (Iliad means "epic of Ilion"). Troy (Turkish: Truva) is also the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, in Asia Minor or Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now northwest Turkey, so ...

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• Troy - Legendary Troy
• Troy - Homeric Troy
• Troy - Archaeological Troy
• Troy - Troy I–V
• Troy - Troy VI
• Troy - Troy VII
• Troy - Troy IX
• Troy - Excavation campaigns
• Troy - Schliemann
• Troy - Dörpfeld Blegen
• Troy - Korfmann
• Troy - Hittite evidence
• Troy - Homeric Ilion and historical Wilusa
• Troy - Status of the Iliad
• Troy - The Iliad as essentially legendary
• Troy - The Iliad as essentially historical
• Troy - Tourism
• Troy - Troy in later legend

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Santorini (Greek Σαντορίνη) is a small, circular group of volcanic islands located in the Aegean Sea, about 200 km south-east from the mainland of Greece (latitude: 36.40°N - longitude: 25.40°E). It is also known by the name of the largest island in the archipelago, Thira or Thera (Θήρα; see also List of traditional Greek place names). It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km² (28 sq mi), and in 2001 had an estimated population of 13,600. The inh ...

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• Santorini - Minoan Akrotiri
• Santorini - Ancient volcanic eruption
• Santorini - Physical effects of the eruption
• Santorini - Dating the volcanic eruption
• Santorini - Size of the eruption
• Santorini - Chinese records
• Santorini - Egyptian records
• Santorini - Association with Atlantis
• Santorini - Greek Byzantine and Ottoman Santorini
• Santorini - Modern Santorini

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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' were too poor to contribute ships to the collective navy, they paid taxes to Athens so that there would be enough money to build the expensive triremes. In 478 BC, following the defeat of Xerxes' invasion of Greece, Pausanias the Spartan led Hellenic forces against the Persians. He was an unpopular commander (who may have conspired with the Persians), and Sparta was eager to stop prosecuting ...

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Agia Paraskevi is one of Lesbos' last remaining traditional villages. Lesbos is a prefecture of Greece, consisting of a number of islands in the Aegean Sea. The village is named after the Church of Agia Paraskevi, which is found in a cave in one of the highest points of the town. The town cemetery is also located here. Presumingly built over an old pagan temple, there is a well in the cave, and drinking the water from this well has been said to have conferred Virgin Mary's protection. Agia Paraskevi is an old village tha ...

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• Agia Paraskevi Lesbos Greece - Festivals
• Agia Paraskevi Lesbos Greece - Village layout

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(Turkish: Yurtta Barış, Dünyada Barış) The Republic of Turkey or Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), is a bicontinental country located mainly in Asia Minor, with 3% of its land located in the Balkans. Its strategic location straddles the Bosphorus straits that separate Southwest Asia from Southeast Europe. The Anatolian peninsula comprises nearly all of its territory, and is situated between the Black Sea on the north and the Mediterranean Sea to south, with the Aegean Sea and Marmara Sea (both branches of the Medit ...

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• Turkey - History
• Turkey - Politics
• Turkey - Legal System
• Turkey - Foreign Relations
• Turkey - Military
• Turkey - Geography
• Turkey - Economy
• Turkey - Agriculture
• Turkey - Industrial sector
• Turkey - Service sector
• Turkey - Financial sector
• Turkey - Natural resources
• Turkey - Employment
• Turkey - Society
• Turkey - Demographics
• Turkey - Education
• Turkey - Culture
• Turkey - Religion
• Turkey - Gallery
• Turkey - Miscellaneous Topics

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17th century BC - Events. 1700 – 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests. 1700 BC - Belu-bani became the King of Assyria. c. 1700 BC - Lila-Ir-Tash started to rule the Elamite Empire. c. 1698 BC - Lila-Ir-Tash the ruler of the Elamite Empire died. Temti-Agun I started to rule the Elamite Empire. 1691 BC - Belu-bani, the King of Assyria died. c. 1690 BC - Temti-Agun I, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died. Tan-Uli started to rule the Elamite Empire.

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 of Ionia, after the death of her husband. She participated in the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC as a Persian ally with five ships, but as she was about to be captured by the Greeks, she purposely or accidentally rammed and sunk a Persian ship, causing the Greeks to spare her life as they believed she had defected to the Greek side. She escaped back to the Persians, where the Persian king Xerxes I decla

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(9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – other millennia) 8th millennium BC - Events. Circa 8000 BC–Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are established. Circa 8000 BC–Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest Turkey are established. Circa 8000 BC–Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established. Circa 8000 BC–Settlements at Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker in present-day Buskerud, Norway are established. ...

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• 8th millennium BC - Events
• 8th millennium BC - Environmental changes
• 8th millennium BC - Inventions discoveries introductions
• 8th millennium BC - Cultural landmarks
• 8th millennium BC - Fiction and myth

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An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. Archipelagoes usually occur in the open sea; less commonly a large land mass may neighbour them. Archipelagoes are often volcanic, forming along ocean ridges or hotspots, but there are many other processes involved in their construction, including erosion and deposition. The word comes from the Aegean Sea (Greek αρχιπέλαγος, Italian Arcipelago), which literally means "chief sea", from Greek arkhi (leader) and pelagos ...

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Agios Efstratios (or Αγιος Ευστράτιος in Greek), Saint Eustratius, is a very quiet, isolated, unvegetated, small isle between the greater islands of Limnos and Lesbos in the northern Aegean Sea. Together with Limnos and Lesbos they form the prefecture of Lesbos, which is part of the Greek archipelagic periphery of North Aegean. Isle's population is approximately 300 people. Climatic conditions on the island are predominantly arid with little rainfall during winter months and long hot summers. Local topolog ...

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• Agios Efstratios - Recent Political History
• Agios Efstratios - Unique Feature. An Opera House

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Alexandroupoli (also Alexandroupolis, Greek: Αλεξανδρούπολη - Alexandroúpoli) is a city of Greece and the capital of the Evros Prefecture in Thrace. Alexandroupoli - Geography. Alexandroupoli is about 14.5 kilometres west of the mouth of the river Maritsa (Evros) and the border with Turkey, 391 kilometres from Thessaloniki, and 849 kilometres from Athens. At the 1991 census the main city had a population of 36,994, and the municipality had a population of 38,220. Including:

• Alexandroupoli - Geography
• Alexandroupoli - History
• Alexandroupoli - Other
• Alexandroupoli - Historical population

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Greece, (Greek: Ελλάδα, older form: Ελλάς, Hellas), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dimokratía; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a country in southern Europe on the tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, FYROM, and Albania to the north and with Turkey to the east. The waters of the Aegean Sea border Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Sea to the west and south ...

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• Greece - Name
• Greece - History
• Greece - Prehistory and antiquity
• Greece - Roman rule and Middle Ages
• Greece - Ottoman rule
• Greece - Creation of the modern Greek state
• Greece - Politics
• Greece - Local government
• Greece - Geography
• Greece - Economy
• Greece - Tourism
• Greece - Demographics
• Greece - Religion
• Greece - Culture
• Greece - Miscellaneous topics

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Andros, or Andro (Greek: Άνδρος), an island of the Greek archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km (6 miles) south east of Euboea, and about 3 km (about 2 miles) north of Tinos. It is nearly 40 km (25 miles) long, and its greatest breadth is 16 km 10 miles. Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. Andros, the capital, on the east coast, contained about 2000 inhabitants in 1900. The island had about 18,000 inhabitants in (1900) with the den ...

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• Andros - Communities and settlements

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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 and a brother of Pallas, Nisos, and Lykos. Upon the death of Pandion, Aegeus and his brothers took control of Athens from Metion, who had seized the throne from Pandion. They divided the government in four but Aegeas became king. His first wife was Meta and the second was Chalciope. Still without a male heir, Aegeus asked the Oracle at Delphi for advice. Her cryptic words were "Do not loosen the bulging mouth of the wineskin until you have reached ...

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In Greek mythology, Minos was a semi-legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. The Minoan civilization has been named after him. By his wife, Pasiphae, he was the father of Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus and many others. Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, was raised by King Asterion (or Asterius) of Crete. When Asterion died, he gave his throne to Minos, who banished Sarpedon and ( ...

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• Minos - Minos in art
• Minos - The mythological Minos
• Minos - Glaucus
• Minos - Poseidon Daedalus and Pasiphae
• Minos - Theseus
• Minos - Nisus
• Minos - The death of Minos
• Minos - In poetry

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Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist, writer of successful thrillers or adventures, the best known of which is perhaps The Guns of Navarone. He also used the pseudonym Ian Stuart. Alistair MacLean - Life. MacLean was the son of a minister, and learned English as his second language after his mother tongue Scottish Gaelic. He was born in Glasgow but spent much of his childhood and youth in Daviot, near Inverness. He joined the Royal Navy in ...

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• Alistair MacLean - Style of writing
• Alistair MacLean - List of works
• Alistair MacLean - Notes on the Books

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The Seleucid Empire was one of several political states founded after the death of Alexander the Great, whose generals squabbled over the division of Alexander's empire. There were over 30 kings of the Seleucid dynasty from 323 to 60 BC. Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC. Alexander the Great had conquered the Persian Empire within a short time-frame and died young, leaving an expansive empire of partly Hellenized culture without adult heir. Therefore his generals ...

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• Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC
• Seleucid Empire - An overextended domain
• Seleucid Empire - Greco-Bactrian secession 250 BC
• Seleucid Empire - Parthian secession 250 BC
• Seleucid Empire - Eclipse and revival
• Seleucid Empire - The power of Rome and renewed disintegration
• Seleucid Empire - Civil war and further decay
• Seleucid Empire - Collapse of the Seleucid Empire
• Seleucid Empire - Seleucid rulers
• Seleucid Empire - In modern media

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Crete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located at approximately 35° N 24° E. Tourist attractions in Crete include archeological sites at Knossos, Phaistos, Gortys and many other places, the Venetian castle in Rethymno, the Samaria Gorge and many other minor gorges (Agia Irini, Aradena, etc). Crete was the location of the Minoan civilization (ca. 2600–1400 BCE), one of the first civilizations in Europe. Crete - ...

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• Crete - History
• Crete - Geography
• Crete - Climate
• Crete - Economy
• Crete - Personalities
• Crete - Cities
• Crete - Political organisation
• Crete - Tourism

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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 the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee is a small freshwater lake with a natural outlet, but the term was applied to it anyway. The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in the tropical sea or down to the sea shore, or even sea water referring to water of the ocean. Large lakes are sometimes referred t ...

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• Sea - List of seas divided by ocean
• Sea - Pacific Ocean
• Sea - Atlantic Ocean
• Sea - Indian Ocean
• Sea - Arctic Ocean
• Sea - Southern Ocean
• Sea - Landlocked seas
• Sea - Extraterrestrial seas
• Sea - Science

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