Monemvasia - Middle Ages. The founding of the town and fortress of Monemvasia most probably occurred in the 6th Century CE. The town was founded in 583 by people seeking refuge from the Slavic and the Avaric invasion of Greece. From the 10th Century CE, the town developed into an important trade and maritime center. The fortress withstood the Arab and Norman invasions and conquests in 1147. Cornfields that fed up to ...

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Bayezid II (1447/48 – May 26, 1512) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. Bayezid was born in Demotika in Thrace. The son of Mehmed II the Conqueror, Bayezid ascended the Ottoman throne in 1481. Like his father, Bayezid was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of "the Just". Throughout his reign, Bayezid engaged in numerous campaigns to conquer the Venetian-held despotate of Morea, accu ...

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William II Villehardouin (died May 1, 1278) was the last Villehardouin prince of Achaea and ruled the principality at the height of its power and influence. William was the son of Geoffrey I Villehardouin. In 1236 he aided the Latin Empire against the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea, and was rewarded with the overlordship of the Venetian Duchy of the Archipelago and other Venetian territories in the Aegean Sea. He came to power in ...

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The peninsula has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Its modern name derives from ancient Greek mythology , specifically the legend of the hero Pelops who was said to have conquered the entire region. The name Peloponnesos means "Island of Pelops". During the Middle Ages, the peninsula was known as the Morea. According to folk etymology, this is because the Crusaders found it densely planted with mulberry trees (Greek: moreai) ...

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The Greek peninsula became a Roman protectorate in 146 BC, and the Aegean islands were added to this territory in 133. Athens and other Greek cities revolted in 88, and the peninsula was crushed by the Roman general Sulla. The Roman civil wars devastated the land even further, until Augustus organized the peninsula as the province of Achaea in 27. Greece was a typical eastern province of the Roman Empire. The Romans sent colonies there and contributed new buildings to its cities, especially in the Agora of Athens, where the Agrippeia ...

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Plateia - Cyprus. Eleftherias Square - Nicosia & Larnaca Plateia - Greece. Agia Paraskevi Square - Agia Paraskevi Iroon Square - Ano Liosia Agia Triada Square - Argyroupoli Eleftherias, Iroon, Kotzia (by the city hall of Athens), Lysikratous, Mitropouleos, Monastiraki, Omonoia Plateia Omonoias, Syntagma (Constitution Square Plateia Syntagmatos) and Viktoria Squares all in Athens Plateia Amerikis - suburban ...

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The origins of the powers exercised by the assembly of the citizens, or apella, are virtually unknown, due to the paucity of historical documentation. The ordinary Spartan was essentially a soldier, trained to obey and endure; he became a politician only if chosen as ephor for a single year. He could be elected a life member of the council after his sixtieth year, in which he would be free from military service. Sparta was, above all, a military state, and emphasis on military fitness began virtually at birth. Shortly after bir ...

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Laconia - Radio. Fly FM - 90.3 FM (Sparta) Lakonia FM - 91.1 FM (Sparta) Politeia FM - 91.9 FM Radiofonias Notias Lakonias (Southern Laconia Radio) - 93.5 (Gytheio) Radio Sparti - 92.7 FM (Sparta) Star FM - 94.7 Laconia - Television. Ellada TV - UHF 43, Sparta TV Notias Lakonias - Molaoi ...

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List of dialing codes of Greece numerically - 222x0 - Euboea. 22210 - Chalkida City 22220 - Skyros 22230 - Chalkida 22240 22260 22270 22280 22290 List of dialing codes of Greece numerically - 223x0 - Evrytania and Phthiotis. 22310 - Lamia 22320 22330 - AtalantaSee also:

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In 1261, Michael captured Constantinople from its last Latin monarch, Baldwin II. He had himself crowned, with his infant son Andronicus as co-Emperor. Later that year, in December, he had John Lascaris blinded and banished. For this last act he was excommunicated by Arsenius, and the ban was not removed until six years afterwards (1268) on the accession of a new patriarch. After rendering John Lascaris ineligible for the throne, Michael quickly married off John's sisters to foreigners, so their descendants could not threat ...

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Military history of Greece - Prehistoric and ancient period. Trojan War Battle of Ephesus Persian Wars Battle of Marathon Battle of Thermopylae Battle of Salamis Battle of Plataea Battle of Mycale Battle of the Eurymedon Battle of Oenophyta Battle of Coronea Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) Sicilian Wars Peloponnesian War Battle of Arginusae Battle of Delium B ...

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The main picture of this century-long situation: The Principality was under violent succession dispute. That originated from dispossessed Latin Emperor Baldwin II giving overlordship of Achaia to Charles I of Sicily, in order to gain his support for reconquering the throne in Constantinople - Baldwin did not secure the rights of Villehardouin Princes of Achaia when doing that. As a result, Angevin kings of Naples gave Achaia as their fief to a series of their own relatives and creatures, who fought against Princess Margaret Ville ...

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Principality of Achaea, Principality of Achaea - The feudal conflict of Morea 1307-1383, Principality of Achaea - Incomplete List of the Princes of Achaea

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The northernmost point is 38.1° or 38° 06′ N, the westernmost is around 22.2° E or 22° 12′ E, the southernmost is 37.3° N or 37° 18′ N, and the easternmost is 21.9° E or 21° 54′ E. The length from north to south (Directly is 100 km (60 miles), and from east-to-west is around 55 km (35 miles). There two tiny peninsulas in the region. Its coast line includes 120 km of sandy beaches. The longest river is the Alpheus River (Greek: Πόταμος Αλφειόυ Alfeios). Other rivers are Erymanthus (Ε ...

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Greece and the empire as a whole faced a new threat from the Normans of Sicily in the late 11th century. Robert Guiscard took Dyrrhachium and Corcyra in 1081 (see Battle of Dyrrhachium), but Alexius I defeated him, and later his son Bohemund, by 1083. The Pechenegs also raided Thrace during this period. In 1147 while the knights of the Second Crusade made their way through Byzantine territory, Roger II of Sicily captured Corcyra and pillaged Thebes and Corinth. In 1197 Henry VI of Germany continued his father Frederick Barbarossa's an ...

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Greece was raided again in Macedonia in 479 and 482 by the Ostrogoths. The Bulgars also raided Thrace and the rest of northern Greece in 540. The Huns and Bulgars raided Greece in 559 until the Byzantine army returned from Italy, wheren Justinian had been attempting to recapture the former heart of the empire. By this time the prefecture of Macedonia had been added to the larger prefecture of Illyricum. The Slavs invaded and settled in Greece beginning in 579 and the Byzantines nearly lost control of the entire peninsula during the 58 ...

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During the second and third centuries, Greece was divided into provinces including Achaea, Macedonia, and Moesia. During the reign of Diocletian in the late 3rd century, Moesia was organized as a diocese, and was ruled by Galerius. Under Constantine I Hellas was part of the prefectures of Macedonia and Thrace. Theodosius I divided the prefecture of Macedonia into the provinces of Creta, Achaea, Thessalia, Epirus Vetus, Epirus Nova, and Macedonia. The Aegean is ...

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The Peloponnese covers an area of some 21,549 km² (8,320 square miles). It constitutes the southernmost part of mainland Greece, although technically it is an island since the construction of the Corinth Canal in 1893. It has two land connections with the rest of Greece, a natural one at the Isthmus of Corinth and an artificial one in the shape of the Rio-Antirio bridge (completed 2004). The peninsula has a mountainous interior and deeply indented coasts, with Mount Taygetus its highest point. It possesses four south-pointing peninsulas, Messenia, the Mani Peninsula, Cape Malea (also known as Epidaurus Limera), and the Argolid ...

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Nicephorus I began to reconquer Slavic and Bulgar-held areas in the early 9th century. He resettled Anatolian families in Greece and the Balkans, and expanded the Theme of Hellas to the north to include parts of Thessaly and Macedonia, and to the south to include the regained territory of the Peloponnese. Thessalonica, previously organized as an archontate surrounded by the Slavs, became a theme of its own as well. These themes contributed another 10 000 men to the army, and a ...

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Military history of Greece - Ancient & Roman. Long Walls Military history of Greece - Mediæval period. Monemvasia Mistra Passavas Beaufort Tigani Kastro tis Orias Kastro Larissa at Argos Kastro Palamidhi at Nafplio Military history of Greece - Modern. NSA So ...

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List of dialing codes of Greece numerically - 2510 - Kavala area. 2510: Kavala or Kavalla List of dialing codes of Greece numerically - 252x0 - Drama prefecture. 25210 - Drama 25220 - Prostotsani 25230 - Kato Nevrokopi 25240 through 25590 - not used List of dialing codes of Greece numerically - 253x0 - Rodhopi prefecture. 25310 - Komotini 23520 - SapesSee also:

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