Four Years in the Ionian Islands
Author | : George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice Orkney |
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1864 |
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Author | : George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice Orkney |
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1864 |
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Author | : George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice Orkney |
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Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1864 |
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Author | : George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice Earl of Orkney |
Publisher | : London : Chapman and Hall |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Ionian Islands (Greece) |
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Release | : 1864 |
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Author | : Ferdinand Whittingham |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Ionian Islands (Greece) |
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Author | : George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice Orkney 6th earl |
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Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Ionian Islands (Greece) |
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Author | : Anthony Hirst |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2014-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1443862789 |
The Ionian Islands stretch south from the Adriatic, where Corfu’s Pantokrator mountain overlooks Albania across narrow straits, along the western coast of mainland Greece through Paxi, Kephalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada and Zakynthos, to Kythira, midway between Athens and Crete. Three crucial sea-battles were fought here – Sybota (the first recorded), Actium and Lepanto – an indication of the Ionians’ role as an East-West crossroads, between Western Christendom and the Orthodox and Islamic East. Ruled by Venice in her Stato da Mar (sea-empire), the islands became an independent state, as the Septinsular Republic and then, under British Protection, as the United States of the Ionian Islands. Before the mainland Greeks had a State, the Ionian people were proud of having a university – from 1824 – in Corfu town, a World Heritage Site. The islands were united with the Kingdom of Greece in 1864 – the first addition to its territory. This book (with over thirty illustrations) explores the history, archaeology, languages, customs and culture of the Ionian Islands. Without venturing far from the islands, readers will learn much about this distinctive part of the Mediterranean and Greek world. The chapters range from the mythology of the Bronze Age (Homer’s Scheria, where Odysseus startled Nausicaa as she bathed) to today, concentrating particularly on the British Protectorate (1815–1864). One, illustrated by contemporary maps, deals with descriptions of the islands by a fourteenth-century Venetian writing in Latin. The roles of Jews, Souliot refugees, Greek revolutionaries, rebel peasants in Cephalonia, and workers in Corfu’s port suburb of Mandouki are examined in detail. There are contributions on religion and philosophy, as well as literature, music, painting, and the folk-art of carved walking-canes.
Author | : VISCOUNT. KIRKWALL |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781033752869 |
Author | : Ferdinand Whittingham |
Publisher | : Hansebooks |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-02-07 |
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ISBN | : 9783337735265 |
Four Years in the Ionian Islands - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1864. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author | : Jim Potts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199754160 |
Drawing a portrait of the islands off the coast of Greece, Corfu resident Jim Potts narrates the cultural legacies of this unique place from Homer to modern times.