Memoirs on the Ionian Islands,
Author : Frédéric Guillaume de Vaudoncourt
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1816
Category : Greece
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Author : Frédéric Guillaume de Vaudoncourt
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1816
Category : Greece
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Author : Jim Potts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : 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 : Frédéric Guillaume de Vaudoncourt
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780543997944
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy in London, 1816.
Author : Anthony Hirst
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : 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 : Frédéric Guillaume de Vaudoncourt
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1816
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780543997937
Author : Vaudoncourt Guillaume
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1816
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Author : Henry Jervis White Jervis
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Ionian Islands
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Author : David Thomas ANSTED
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Ionian Islands (Greece)
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Author : Guillaume de Vaudoncourt
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 1816
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Author : Edward Giffard
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Athens (Greece).
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