The Ionian Islands During the Present Century
Author | : Henry Jervis White Jervis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Ionian Islands |
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Author | : Henry Jervis White Jervis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Ionian Islands |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Jervis-White Jervis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2020-04-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780461844818 |
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Author | : ... Whyte-Jervis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1863 |
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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 | : 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.
Author | : Henry Jervis-White Jervis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Corfu Island (Greece) |
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Author | : William Mure |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice Orkney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1864 |
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Author | : Sakis Gekas |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785332627 |
Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain – a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. Sakis Gekas shows that the impasse engendered de- pendency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the ‘neocolonial’ condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.
Author | : David Thomas ANSTED |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Ionian Islands (Greece) |
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