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Book The Ionian Islands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Hirst
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-26
  • ISBN : 1443862789
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book The Ionian Islands written by Anthony Hirst and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book History of the Island of Corfu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Jervis Jervis
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-08-07
  • ISBN : 9781498148238
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book History of the Island of Corfu written by Henry Jervis Jervis and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1852 Edition.

Book History of the Island of Corf   and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands  Classic Reprint

Download or read book History of the Island of Corf and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands Classic Reprint written by Henry Jervis-White Jervis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Island of Corfu and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands The total absence of archives at Corfu, tending in any way to elucidate the history of that island, has left me no alternative but that of offering what will perhaps be thought a disjointed account, in an endeavour to harmonize together in one con secutive history such isolated facts as were found, relating to the subject, in the authors who have written on the countries lying in the south-east of Europe with some one of which Corfu has been at one time or another connected, and, in comparing together the several versions of the story, i have been anxious to give one which might appear impartial and correct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Book HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF CORFU AND OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS

Download or read book HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF CORFU AND OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS written by HENRY JERVIS-WHITE. JERVIS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Island of Corfu and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands   Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book History of the Island of Corfu and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands Scholar s Choice Edition written by Henry Jervis-White-Jervis and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Four Years in the Ionian Islands

Download or read book Four Years in the Ionian Islands written by George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice Orkney and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 1864 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating two-volume work provides an in-depth look at the political and social condition of the Ionian Islands during the era of British Protectorate. It examines the cultural, economic, and political factors that shaped the islands' society and history. With its detailed research and engaging narrative, this book is ideal for anyone interested in the history of the Ionian Islands and the British Empire. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Shrines in a Fluid Space  The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands  the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule  14th 16th Centuries

Download or read book Shrines in a Fluid Space The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule 14th 16th Centuries written by Argyri Dermitzaki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries), Argyri Dermitzaki reconstructs the devotional experiences within the Greek realm of the Venetian Stato da Mar of Western European pilgrims sailing to Jerusalem. The author traces the evolution of the various forms of cultic sites and the perception of them as nodes of a wider network of the pilgrims’ ‘holy topography’. She scrutinises travelogues in conjunction with archaeological, visual and historical evidence and offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites invested with exceptional meaning at the main ports of call of the pilgrims’ galleys in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.

Book The Ionian Islands  a Sketch of Their Past History  with Reference to Their Position Under Our Protectorate

Download or read book The Ionian Islands a Sketch of Their Past History with Reference to Their Position Under Our Protectorate written by Frederic Stewart MacGachen and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Xenocracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sakis Gekas
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2016-12-01
  • ISBN : 180539391X
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Xenocracy written by Sakis Gekas and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. As author Sakis Gekas shows, the ordeal engendered dependency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.

Book Exploring Cultural History

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  • Author : Joan Pau Rubiés
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780754667506
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Exploring Cultural History written by Joan Pau Rubiés and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa Calaresu is the McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK. Filippo de Vivo is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Joan-Pau Rubies is Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Book The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863

Download or read book The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863 written by David Thomas Ansted and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Latins in the Levant

Download or read book The Latins in the Levant written by William Miller and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journey Through Greece and the Ionian Islands

Download or read book Journey Through Greece and the Ionian Islands written by Christian Müller and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: