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	Epirot Islands
		Epirote Islands are considered those northern Ionian islands that are in close proximity to the Epirus mainland.
		According to legend, Neoptolemos or Pyrros the late hero of Trojan war, sailed to the Epirote Islands and then became the king of Epirus exiling Odysseus after he killed a large number of suitors that pestered his wife, Penelope.
		In 1864 it was, with the other Ionian Islands, ceded to the kingdom of Greece, in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Regions/EpirotIslands.html (640 words)

	Map of Corfu
		The highest peak on the island (914 metres), it rises in the middle of the north-eastern part of the island, and shapes the whole character of the region.
		Ancient Kassiopi was founded in 281 BC by idents of the Epirot town of the same name, who were brought here by Pyrros when he captured the island.
		In the early years of Christianity the Epirot hermit, Artemios Paisios, is said to have lived in solitude amongst the rocks.
	www.corfu9muses.com /oros.html (1736 words)

	GREEK CONFERENCES INCENTIVES CONGRESSES IN GREECE AND GREEK ISLAND ORGANISERS
		In 800 BC the Corinthians founded colonies in the area, thus establishing frequent contacts between the Epirots and the culture of southern Greece.
		In the 5th century, Tharypas, the King of the Molossians, united the various clans of Epirus into a federation and endeavored to upgrade his kingdom culturally by inviting scholars and artists from southern Greece to his court.
		After a period of unrest, Pyrrus ascended to the throne of Epirus and in 280 BC decided to undertake what was to become one of the last Greek stands against the rising power of Rome.
	www.hapco.gr /page_area.asp?lv1=5&lv2=29&pg=3 (444 words)

	Epiros, North Greece
		pirus is the cloud -covered crown of Greece, west of the Ionian sea, and the islands of Corfu, Paxi and tiny Antipaxi and east of the long, rocky spine of the towering Pindus mountain range, the region's natural frontier with Thessaly.
		There is also the river Acheron, the mythological gate to the underworld, along with the river Thyamis; both shed their water at the Ionian sea, across from the beautiful island of Corfu.
		Fortunately, keeping pace with the demise of villages and village life, with the development of communities, is an acute awareness on the part of the Epirotes, scholars and lay people alike, of their tremendous cultural value.
	greece-private.com /epirus2.htm (1536 words)

	Dimitrios Konstantios - Greece, Hearth of Art and Culture after the Fall of Constantinople
		With a thematic repertoire that draws on the works of earlier painters as well as Flemish and Italian prints, and with an excellent technique, they are the last in whom the experience and education that are the hallmark of the Cretan School can be recognized.
		His commanding presence on the island throughout the second half of the seventeenth century is affirmed by the archival sources and by the plethora of his works, in which a sound knowledge of tradition as well as of Flemish and Italian engravings is apparent.
		A combination of elements from sixteenth-century Cretan works and from the local Epirote School can be detected in the ceuvre of the priest loannis and his sons, in the decoration of the parekklesion of the Three Hierarchs in the Barlaam monastery.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/kostantios_greece.htm (5925 words)

	Neoptolemus
		He killed Priam, Eurypylus, Polyxena, Polites and Astyanax, among others, and enslaved Helenus and Andromache after the war.
		With Andromache, Helenus and Phoenix, Neoptolemus sailed to the Epirot Islands[?] and then became the king of Epirus, exiling Odysseus after he killed a large number of suitors that pestered his wife, Penelope.
		On the way to Troy, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake on Chryse.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Neoptolemus.html (372 words)

	Hellenic Sun Editions
		Brimming with history and tradition, the island delights the visitor with its natural beauty, the constant interchange between green and blue that one meets at every corner and cove.
		Thassos Town (also known as Limenas), the island's capital, can be reached via ferry from Kavala and Thessaloniki.
		Pleasant boat rides are also offered from Keramoti, close to Kavalaθs airport, which is also the shortest crossing point to the island (just 10km).
	www.helsun.gr /infodetail.asp?regid=19&infoid=50 (120 words)

	A VISIT TO MARATHOKAMBOS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When a harbour was built at its port down on the bay, it developed trade relations with the Asia Minor coast, the Greek islands, the north coast of Africa, and Cyprus.
		Their contact with the ports of the Mediterranean resulted in the spread of new ideas, and that was the reason why the uprising against Turkish oppression had its beginning in this village of proud seafarers.
		In spite of the fact that the residents have in many respects moved with the times in their way of life, they still retain some of their old customs such as the popular fairs and their observance of Easter, not encountered on other islands.
	hellas.teipir.gr /thesis/samos/english/tdk52.html (650 words)

	Third Wave Travel - Explore Greece - Discover Greek Cities - Ioannina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		An important personality in the history of Epirus was King Pyrrhus who united all the Epirot tribes and beat the Carthagenians in Sicily.
		It was conquered by the Normans and in 1204 after the conquest of Konstantinople by the Francs it became the most important town of the Despotate of Epirus.
		Take the boat from the Fortress and in fifteen minutes you will be on the picturesque island, Nissi, in lake Pamvotis, where monasteries of the 13th century are preserved.
	www.thirdwavetravel.com /Ioannina.htm (1161 words)

	John Cohen Works - Films of John Cohen
		This classic, entertaining survey of American traditional music presents varied individuals and groups who have not become part of the "melting pot" of American society.
		From front porch banjo pickers in Appalachia and the Bluegrass Festival circuit to fl children on the Carolina sea islands, cowboys, and Cheyenne and Comanche Indians, they have all retained their cultural identities despite pressures from the mass media and popular culture.
		The Epirots who earn their living here have their hearts planted firmly in the mountains of Greece.
	www.johncohenworks.com /films/filmslist.html (1311 words)

	destination guide - Where To Go - Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If time and money are short, the best place to head for is well-preserved Ídhra in the Argo-Saronic, just a short ride from Pireás (the main port of Athens), but an utterly different place once the day-cruises have gone.
		Rhodes, with its unique old town, is capital of the Dodecanese, but picturesque, Neoclassical Symi opposite, and austere Pátmos, the island of Revelations, are far more manageable.
		The Ionian islands are, probably more than any other spot except Crete and Rhodes, package-holiday territory, but if you're exiting Greece towards Italy by all means stop off at Corfu to at least savour the Venetian-style main town, which along with neighbouring Paxí islet survived severe 1953 earthquake damage.
	www.cityguides-worldwide.com /Greece/94638.htm (407 words)

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		She led him to her father first the Phaeacians, who lived on the island, were cool to Odysseus, but he bested them in a stone-throwing contest they accepted him.
		Things on the island had become risky for Odysseus' teenage son Telemachus, so Athena had guided him to Nestor's court and then to Sparta and the court of Menelaus, where he sought word of his father.
		Athena proposed a truce and submitted the dispute to the king of the Epirot Islands, who decided that Odysseus should go into exile from Ithaca for ten years, that Telemachus should rule in his stead, and that the relatives should repay the losses that the suitors had caused.
	members.aol.com /sfd89/webpage4.htm (716 words)

	The Ellada Site - Non-Travel Greek Books (to buy as well!!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lawrence Durrell - The Greek Islands (Faber and Faber/Penguin, the former o/p).
		Originally published in 1881, this remains the best account of island customs and folklore; it's also a highly readable, droll account of a year's Aegean travel, including a particularly violent Cycladic winter.
		Fowles's biggest and best novel: a tale of mystery and manipulation, and Greek island life, inspired by his stay on Spetses, as a teacher, in the 1950s.
	www.ellada.com /grbooks1.html (2375 words)

	Festival of Greek Music and Dance 2001, Music and Dances from Macedonia and Thrace
		While in Macedonia and Thrace instruments such as gaida (bagpipe), oud (fretless lute) and zourna (oboe) are common, in the western region of Macedonia brass bands are very popular, having been introduced the military bands of Western Europe and the Janissary bands of Turkey.
		These bands are usually led by the clarinet which is played in a style that is influenced by the Epirot style and has much in common with the ‘Oriental’ Gypsy clarinet style common throughout the Balkans.
		They were particularly found on the island of Lesvos where they used to call the bands "fysera" (wind pieces).
	www.ohfs.org /concert2001.htm (2086 words)

	Parga car hire / Parga car rental from 17 EUR per day all inclusive
		PÁRGA is a photogenic and popular coastal town, approximately 50km south of Igoumenítsa on the Epirot shoreline.
		From the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries Párga was a lone Venetian toehold in Epirus, complementing the Serene Republic's offshore possessions in the Ionian Islands.
		The townspeople, knowing his reputation, decamped to the Ionian Islands, the area being resettled by Muslims who remained until the exchange of populations in 1923, when they were replaced in part by Orthodox Greeks from the area around Constantinople
	www.greececar.com /parga.htm (791 words)

	Greece, Where to go guide
		Perhaps the best strategy for initial visits is to sample assorted islands from contiguous archipelagos - Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades and the northeast Aegean are all reasonably well connected with each other, though the Sporades, Argo-Saronic and Ionian groups offer limited (or no) possibilities for island-hopping.
		If time and money are short, the best place to head for is well-preserved Idhra in the Argo-Saronic, just a short ride from Pireas (the main port of Athens), but an utterly different place once the day-cruises have gone.
		The Ionian islands are, probably more than any other spot except Crete and Rhodes, package-holiday territory, but if you're exiting Greece towards Italy by all means stop off at Corfu to at least savour the Venetian-style main town, which along with neighbouring Paxi islet survived severe 1953 earthquake damage.
	www.hotelsrates.net /greece/pod_dep-c94638.html (407 words)

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		After taking Byblos and Sidon, he met serious resistance at Tyre,where he was refused entry into the island city.
		During the siege of Tyre, Darius sent a letter with his offer: he wanted to pay ransom of 10,000 talents for his family and cede all his lands west of the Euphrates.Onthat occasion Alexander's general Parmenio advised him to accept.
		He founded the city of Alexandria near the western arm of the Nile between the sea and Lake Mareotis, protected by the island of Pharos, having it planned by the famous Rhodian architect Deinocrates.
	www.1stmuse.com /alex3/alex-synopsys.html (3101 words)

	Corfiot Magazine Corfu
		We have lived through years when our island was a magnet for bedraggled and emaciated men looking for work - any work - and somewhere to sleep, even a windowless bothy.
		Among them is an old acquaintance, a Northern Epirot lady who, courageously with her three teenaged children, was an early refugee.
		The houses huddle together, square facades showing many empty windows, for most people were moved to coastline cooperative farms and factories during the communist era, or emigrated when they got the chance.
	www.pelekas.com /news-corfiot-0402.html (3729 words)

	Neoptolemus
		Among those he killed in the war were the courageous King Priam, his youngest daughter Polyxena, and Hector's son Astyanax.
		After the fall of Troy, he took Hector's widow, Andromache, as a concubine and sailed to the Epirot Islands with Phoenix and Helenus.
		He became the king of Epirus who condemned Odysseus to exile after the latter slayed the large number of suitors at his house.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/n/neoptolemus.html (344 words)

	GreeceNow: Sampling a nation's sounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On the one hand the compilation includes pieces that represent the traditional music of mainland Greece, the islands and Asia Minor featuring the folk dance music by Dimitris Sakalis, legendary Cretan singer Nikos Xylouris, Epirot Petro-Loukas Chalkias and the "nightingale of Smyrna" Kostas Nouros, while gypsy singer Manolis Angelopoulos sings a tune about refugees.
		Rembetika legend Sotiria Bellou had joined up with the idiosyncratic songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos (the "Greek Bob Dylan") before her death in 1997 to record the Zembekiko, which is included in the collection.
		Jazz band Mode Plagal, for example, do a unique adaptation of an Epirot folk (demotic) song entitled Pikrodafni(Rhododendron) and the fascinating Kristi Stassinopoulou, who claims her music is a type of "Balkan ethno-trance" or "Greek techno folk psychedelia", sings the intriguing Tin kardhia m tin klidomeni (My Locked Heart).
	www1.greece.gr /CULTURE/Music/samplinganationssounds.stm (689 words)

	Windsor & Neate Business Travel Agents - Summer Sun
		For this summer we have added the island of Amorgos, one of the most remote (and beautiful) of the Cyclades.
		Silvery Paxos may be small but it is very pretty, wonderful for walking and lapped by the clearest of seas, be prepared to fall under the spell of a truly enchanting isle.
		Cypriots are among the world's most welcoming people: 'Nobody comes to Cyprus once' is an island saying, and when you return, even years after, you will be greeted warmly because you are an old friend.
	www.windsor-neate.co.uk /sun.html (2475 words)

	Venice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		and particularly the arrival of the Longobards (568), it started to indicate a part of the small settlements that were created on the islands of the lagoon between the
		Their economy was based on the trade activities between the Near-East countries and
		This event coincided with the failure of the Franks' attempt to conquer the islands.
	www.siu.edu /~archtour/sean_k/Venice.htm (149 words)

	Greek Discount Travel & Travel Information Greece
		In the 5th century, Tharypas, the King of the Molossians, united the various clans into a federation and endeavoured to introduce his people to culture by inviting scholars and artists from southern Greece to his court.
		Later, most of the region 's inhabitants were forced to settle at Nikopolis, built by Octavian (Augustus) to celebrate his victory at Actium (31 B.C.) over the fleets of Antony and Cleopatra.
		In 369 A.D., the Goths led by Alaric attacked and conquered the region.
	www.greek-travel.info /epirus.html (740 words)

	Sivota harbour resort, hotels, apartments and studios - REDISCOVER THE WORLD - GREECE - tailor made holidays
		Accommodation here is of a high quality; we offer a number of personally selected self catering studios, apartments and a superb friendly hotel, located either near the harbour or around the coves just a few minutes from the harbour.
		Such a stunning and relatively unspoilt place is hard to find but Sivota, facing the islands of Corfu and Paxos from the Epirus coast, fits that bill perfectly.
		Arriving at Sivota from either Preveza or Igoumenitsa (flights to Corfu and short ferry) you will pass through the lush, undeveloped Epirot landscape with small villages, deserted beaches and a dramatic mountain backdrop.
	www.rediscover.co.uk /sivota.htm (543 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : E/EP/EPI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Profile: Grand Master Epifanio \"Yuli\" Romo Born on April 23, 1949 in Pilar, Camotes Island in the province of Cebu, Philippines, Grandmaster Epifanio ‘Yuli’ Romo was introduced to the Filipino Martial Arts from a very early age.
		Epirote Islands are considered those northern Ionian islands that are in proximity to the Epirus mainland.
		It borders the peripheries of West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, Stereá Elláda (Central Greece) to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north.
	www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=E/EP/EPI (10396 words)

	Appetite Network -- Destination Guides - Europe & Russia - Europe - Greece
		If time and money are short, the best place to head for is well-preserved Ídhra in the Argo-Saronic, just a short ride from Pireás (the main port of Athens), but an utterly different place once the day-cruises have gone.
		Rhodes, with its unique old town, is capital of the Dodecanese, but picturesque, Neoclassical Symi opposite, and austere Pátmos, the island of Revelations, are far more manageable.
		The Ionian islands are, probably more than any other spot except Crete and Rhodes, package-holiday territory, but if you're exiting Greece towards Italy by all means stop off at Corfu to at least savour the Venetian-style main town, which along with neighbouring Paxí islet survived severe 1953 earthquake damage.
	guide.appetitenet.com /index.jsp?cid=48243&action=viewLocation&formId=94638 (462 words)

	Epirus and the west, Greece. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Párga, the major Epirot resort, has been developed beyond its capacity, though Préveza has retained some character against the odds and is now a major gateway and nightspot for package-holiday patrons.
		South of Préveza, you enter a low, marshy landscape of lakes and landlocked gulfs hemmed in by bare hills – of interest mainly to the bird-watcher and fish-dinner enthusiast.
		For better beach escapes in this part of the world you need islands, fortunately close at hand in the Ionian group – Lefkádha is actually connected to the mainland by a moveable bridge.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/liechtenstein/epirus_and_the_west/home (736 words)

	Holidays in Lefkada, Greece. Luxury villa holidays with pools in the Greek Islands
		It is rare to find a level site on this hilly island, and be within easy reach of all amenities, just 2 km from Lefkadatown and the nearest beaches.
		Beyond the boundaries the hubbub of rural life continues to ring out across the plateau: a braying mule, a peal of church bells and a woman calling to her family for a meal.
		A distant radio carries the sultry rhythms of Epirot music as the sun slides down behind the hills.
	www.traveluxgreece.co.uk /greece/lefkada/lemoni_portokali/lemoni.php (870 words)

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