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	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Greece
		These communities of Romaniot developed throughout the Byzantine period, which lasted from approximately 476-1453 C.E. Life was not always easy for the Jews and they were pressured to accept the Christian Messiah, but they were also recognized as descendants of the Chosen People and protected by the law.
		The community of both Sepharadi and Romaniot Jews is wealthy and maintains a daily minyan, a rabbi, a kosher butcher, a school, a community center, various organizations and an old age home.
		A Jewish community in Delos was described by Josephus (38-100 B.C.) and in inscriptions found in a first century synagogue discovered on the island.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Greece.html (5467 words)

	Kefalonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Argostoli, in the west, is the largest port, for local boats and ferries to Zante and regularly to Lixouri.
		Most tourists stay in or around Lassi, a serene resort a few kilometers from Argostoli, and their numbers have increased since the best-seller, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, became a movie (2001) which was shot on the island itself.
		Province of Ithaca, the province ceased to exist when the commune of Kalamos became a part of the prefecture of Lefkada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kefalonia (2140 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greece
		He is assisted by two counsellors, also elected by the community from among the monks who made their religious profession not less than six years ago.
		Gregory XVI, in 1834, established Aloysius M. Blancis, Bishop of Syros, as "Apostolic Delegate for the Kingdom of Greece".
		There are a few small communities of Greeks who have left the Orthodox Church, either converted by Protestant missionaries or following some new protestantizing or rationalizing leader of their own.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06735a.htm (10864 words)

	Thebes, Greece
		It is difficult to extract any historical fact out of this maze of myths; the various groups cannot be fully co-ordinated, and a further perplexing feature is the neglect of Thebes in the Homeric poems.
		As a fortified community, it attracted attention from the invading Dorians, and the fact of their eventual conquest of Thebes lie behind the stories of the successive legendary attacks on that city.
		The central position and military security of the city naturally tended to raise it to a commanding position among the Boeotians, and from early days its inhabitants endeavoured to establish a complete supremacy over their kinsmen in the outlying towns.
	www.creekin.net /c3768-n73-thebes-greece.html (1239 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Food preservation
		A Zante currant is a variety of small, sweet, seedless grape named for the Ionian island Zakynthos.
		Probably as old as drying, many Arctic communities would preserve food in holes or larders dug into the ice.
		There is a tradition in Scandinavia of preserving fish and especially herrings in this way.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Food-preservation (5540 words)

	File 1a - From 1095 to 1400AD - Merchants and Bankers Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This website, produced by Australian historian Dan Byrnes, is a no-frills, text-based website designed simply to list historical and genealogical information on many notable merchants and traders of what is termed, the Western World.
		750AD and after, to 1500: Muslim/Arab traders expand via maritime activity to (Muslim communities in) China, India, South-East Asia, East Africa, Madagascar and The Philippines.
		This puts fear into a "fellow-pirate", Matthew Orsini, who rules over Cephalonia and Zante, and by 1208 Orsini has adopted the view of Venice on affairs.
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /merchants/merchants1a.htm (14738 words)

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