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  Ionian Islands - LoveToKnow 1911
IONIAN ISLANDS, the collective name for the Greek islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cythera (Cerigo) and Paxo, with their minor dependencies.
They were afterwards robbed of the island by Leon Vetrano, a famous Genoese corsair; but he was soon defeated and put to death, and the senate, to secure their position, granted fiefs in Corfu to ten noble families in order that they might colonize it (1206).
The hopes of the unionists were roused by the appointment of W. Gladstone as high commissioner extraordinary to investigate the condition of the islands.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ionian_Islands   (1872 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Ionian Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Ionian Islands (Greek: Ionia Nisia) are a group of islands in Greece.
The six northern islands are in the Ionian Sea.
In 1941 when German forces occupied Greece, the Ionian Islands (except Kythera) were handed over to the Italians, who in their three years of rule made themselves hugely unpopular by trying to force the islanders to realise that they were "really" Italian.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ionian_Islands   (1325 words)

  
 Report on the International Conference of Trade Unionists held in Oren, Turkey
The focal point of such opposition is the capitulation of the union leadership in the face of the ferocious general offensive of European Capitalism, attacking and snatching the historic gains of the working class.
Union activists are terminated from jobs and removed from democratic trade unions under the threat of capital withdrawal.
It is the responsibility of communists to struggle within the international trade union movement to bring the anti-imperialist struggle to the centre of the labour movement.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv5n2/tuturkey.htm   (2246 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for The Union (political coalition)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] (USSR), Rus.
It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991.
It borders on France in the northwest, the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Ionian Sea in the south, the Adriatic Sea in the east,
encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=The+Union+(political+coalition)   (673 words)

  
 IONIAN ISLANDS - Online Information article about IONIAN ISLANDS
ancient settlements of Ionian colonists on the coasts and islands.
UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)
Wales; and the British government declared to the provisional government of Greece that his selection would be followed by the long-refused cession of the Ionian Islands.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/IONIAN_ISLANDS.html   (2911 words)

  
 CORFU - Dilos Holiday World
The prefecture of Corfu (Kerkyra) is located in the Ionian Sea, including the island of Corfu, the islands of Paxos, Antipaxos and the smaller islets Discalia, Panayia and Exolithro.
This historical building is closely connected with the Union of the Eptanisian Islands with the remainder of Greece.
It was utilised as the Chamber for the Deputies for the 11th, 12th and the final 13th Parliament of the Eptanisian State, which voted for Union with Greece on September 23rd 1863.
www.dilos.com /location/304   (2429 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ionians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It was held in October or November, in the season when various phratries (clans) met to induct new members, register children born since the previous festival, and pay homage to the gods.
Her sons, Achaeus by Xuthus, and Ion by Xuthus or Apollo, are the ancestors of the Achaeans and the Ionians.
He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeks—the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans, and the Aeolians.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ionians&StartAt=11   (665 words)

  
 FOCUS on TURKEY - THE IONIAN UPRISING (Ephesus)
The tyrant of Ephesus Aristagoras presented himself as the savior of the people of Ionian states at this stage.
he Persian army defeated the Ionians in front of the city of Ephesus and killed most of the Ionian soldiers.
Before this union started to become effective, in the year 409 B.C., Athens went into war with Sparta.
www.focusmm.com /aceph_02.htm   (334 words)

  
 Ionian islands - Corfu
The Ionian Sea (Greek -- Ionion Pelagos) is another arm of the Mediterranean Sea, separating Greece and Albania from Italy and Sicily.
The Ionian Sea is connected with the Adriatic Sea in the north by the Strait of Otranto.
The sea forms a deep indentation, the Gulf of Taranto, in the southern coast of Italy between the regions of Calabria and Apulia and a number of deep inlets on the Greek coast, including the Gulf of Corinth.
alexandros.com /Greece/ionian.html   (645 words)

  
 Athens News Agency: News in English (AM), 98-05-28
The strike was called by GSEE, an umbrella trade union group representing nearly a million workers in the private and public sectors; and ADEDY, the civil servants union.
Under the ruling, the president and board of Ionian's union will be fined 400,000 drachmas a day if they fail to call off the strike.
Discussions centered around European Union and NATO enlaregment and the situation in Kosovo and Bosnia, while various bilateral issues were discussed as well.
www.hri.org /news/greek/apeen/1998/98-05-28.apeen.html   (2267 words)

  
 Ionian islands (Greece, 1800-1864)
The State of the Ionian Islands introduced a blue flag with the winged lion of Saint Marcus holding the Gospel, from which sprung seven lances symbolising the seven Ionian Islands.
The national commercial flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands, as directed by the seventh article of the treaty of Paris, shall be the original flag of these States, with the addition of the British Union, to be placed in the upper corner, next to the flag-staff.
The arms or armorial bearings of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall hereafter consist of the British arms in the centre, surrounded by the arms of each of the islands composing the said States.
flagspot.net /flags/gr-ion.html   (873 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ionian Islands
The population amounts to 261,930, among them being 6615 Catholics of the Latin Rite, while the remainder, with the exception of a few thousand Jews and a small number of Mussulmans, belong to the Greek Orthodox Church.
The climate of the islands is in general very mild and salubrious, and, in spite of the mountainous character of the land, there is a fairly extensive output of cotton, wine, oil, and raisins.
In 1799 the Russian fleet seized the Ionian Isles, and they were constituted a small state tributary to Turkey, but in 1802 the Treaty of Amiens declared them free under the protectorate of Russia.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08091a.htm   (829 words)

  
 The Ellada Site - Travelling in Greece
he Ionian Islands - the Heptanisa (Seven Islands), as they are called in Greek - are situated on the western reaches of the country from the Albanian coast in the north to the southern tip of the Peloponnese and offer a completely different flavour of Greece.
After 1848 periodic insurrections by the peasantry, notably in Cephalonia, had to be put down with force, and the Ionian parliament voted for immediate union with the new Greek kingdom.
In 1864 Britain ceded the islands to Greece as a gesture marking the accession of a new Greek king, George I (the former Prince William George of Glücksburg), son of Christian IX of Denmark.
www.ellada.com /ionianall.html   (730 words)

  
 Ionian Islands : Introduction | Frommers.com
The Ionians are rainier, greener, and more temperate than other Greek islands, with a high season lasting from late June to early September.
All the Ionians -- especially Corfu -- are overrun in July and August; aim for June or September.
The Ionian Islands then became a protectorate of the British; although the islands did experience peace and prosperity, they were in fact a colony.
www.frommers.com /destinations/ionianislands/1674010001.html   (723 words)

  
 ionian revolt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Histiaeus obtains permission to leave Susa and come to Ionian; falls under suspicion of Artaphrenes and escapes.
Ionians deliberate at Panionium, decide on naval strategy, collect fleet of 353 ships (6.7-8).
Hdt's version: Ionians too slack and comfort-loving to submit to training and discipline (6.11-12).
www.union.edu /PUBLIC/CLSDEPT/classics21/outlines/ionianrevolt.htm   (345 words)

  
 British Protectorate
He obligated the Ionian State to pay 25.000 pounds sterling for the preservation and salary of the British garrisons and minimized the 15.000 to 13.000 pounds sterling for the expenses of the Commissioner.
of February 1859, Gladstone announced to the Parliament of Corfu, the refusal of the Queen regarding the union of the Ionian Islands and presented the reform of the Constitution.
The new national bronze coins were equivalent to the British coins and they had on one side the emblem of the Ionian State with the cyclic inscription “Ionian State 1819” and on the other side the nymph Brittannia sitting and watching on the left with the cyclic inscription “Brittannia”.
www.kalamicorfu.com /html/protectorate.html   (2496 words)

  
 The English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Although the British were hostile to the Ionian movement for Union with Greece, their period of governance left its positive marks.
The establishment of Greek as the official language, for example, as also the creation of a broad road network, the building of an aqueduct, founding of the Ionian Academy and the imposing public buildings, all constitute indisputable examples of the British presence on the island.
Together with the other Ionian Islands, Kefalonia also actively participated in organizing and conducting the Greek revolution of 1821, culminating with the participation of Kefalonian revolutionaries in the battle of Lala which was crucial for the revolution.
www.ionianislands.gr /english/history/h_main7.htm   (287 words)

  
 Grecotel Corfu Imperial Greece Ionian Islands Eptanisa Corfu Kommeno
In 1994 it played host to the European Union Leaders Summit and on entering the hotel you will understand why it was chosen.
This luxury Hotel is set on the evergreen Peninsula of Kommeno and surrounded by the crystal clear, blue Ionian Sea, a paradise on earth.
The Main Building and the Bungalows with direct access to the beach are set among the floral gardens and olive trees.
www.ellada.net /corfimp   (200 words)

  
 The adriatic lithosphere is a promontory of the African plate: Evidence of a continuous mantle lid in the Ionian Sea ...
The adriatic lithosphere is a promontory of the African plate: Evidence of a continuous mantle lid in the Ionian Sea from efficient Sn propagation
Evidence of a continuous lithosphere between the northern margin of Africa and Italy is given from the analysis of regional waveforms recorded by the Italian Seismic Network.
Citation: Mele, G. The adriatic lithosphere is a promontory of the African plate: Evidence of a continuous mantle lid in the Ionian Sea from efficient Sn propagation, Geophys.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2001/2000GL012148.shtml   (268 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of the Ionian Islands, 1815-1863
Ioannis Kapodistrias, a Greek serving in Russia's diplomatic service, at the Vienna Congress prevented the Ionian Islans to be declared an outright British possession, but a sovereign republic under British protection instead.
Greece itself became independent in 1830; Britain ceded the Ionian islands to Greece in 1863.
April 8th 1865 : Accession of Turkey to Treaty of 29th March, 1864, for the Union of the Ionian Islands to Greece.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/ionisl18151863.html   (486 words)

  
 EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Flash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He said the government had not yet decided whether to sell state Ionian Bank or merge it with parent company, Commercial Bank, but a final decision was imminent.
Government spokesman Dimitris Reppas said yesterday that a favorable European Union statement on Greece's economy was an incentive to pursue the same policies until 2001 when the country plans to join economic and monetary union (EMU).
Reppas told reporters after a weekend EU summit to launch the euro that the declaration was proof that the government's economic policy was working.
www.greekembassy.org /press/newsflash/1998/May/nflash0505.html   (575 words)

  
 ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - "Great expectations - The regional administrative reform in Eastern Central Europe in ...
One of the key issues of governance of European Union is relationship between its governance and its boundaries in broad sense adopted by Friis and Murphy, who distinguish (after Smith 1996) four types of EU boundary; geopolitical, institutional, legal, transactional, and cultural.
This paper on governance and boundaries between the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe; concentrates one type of barrier; the institutional.
This paper on current reform of regional administration in Central and Eastern Europe: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary an example suggesting adaptation to similar regional structure, as in the European Union.
aei.pitt.edu /647   (268 words)

  
 AFSOUTH Fact sheets
On 10 July 1992 the Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Alliance discussed, at Helsinki, the NATO contribution to the monitoring of sanctions mandated by the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 713 and 757.
Welcoming the Western European Union's Ministers' decision to establish a naval monitoring force, they agreed on a corresponding NATO force to be drawn from NATO's Standing Naval Force Mediterranean (STANAVFORMED).
On 15 July the North Atlantic Council and NATO's Defence Planning Committee (DPC) finalised the arrangements for implementing the decisions taken by the Alliance Foreign Ministers at Helsinki on 10 July.
www.afsouth.nato.int /FACTSHEETS/OperationMaritimeMonitor.htm   (916 words)

  
 Cyprus & Ionian Islands (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
Treaty of Passarowitz: all that remained of the Venetian Empire was the Dalmatian Coast and the Ionian Islands
Treaty of Tilsit: Russia reluctantly became an ally of the French and ceded the Ionian Islands to France; French later defeated Austrians at Wagram
Military Deaths which occurred in the Ionian Islands during the period of the British Mandate.
www.regiments.org /nations/europe/cyprus.htm   (1135 words)

  
 Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, 98-05-28
A commitment was made to shrink the sprawling public sector and cut state spending well before January 1, 2001, the government's target date for EMU entry.
On Tuesday, Ionian had slid to 11,670 drachmas on the Athens bourse from 12, 680 drachmas in the previous session, but recouped some of its losses yesterday, edging up to 11,950 drachmas.
Dampening sentiment was a statement by Moody's Investors Service that it may downgrade its ratings for Ionian and its parent, Commercial Bank of Greece, in the wake of an indefinite strike by Ionian's workers protesting the privatisation.
www.hri.org /news/greek/ana/1998/98-05-28.ana.html   (5455 words)

  
 Student Development The Ionian - Iona College
The IONIAN is the official undergraduate student newspaper of Iona College, widely read by students, faculty and administrators.
The IONIAN has been a proving ground for students because of its "hands-on" experience in editing, reporting, layout, photography and web design.
With the addition of a web site, the IONIAN has added a whole new dimension to a traditional newspaper.
www.iona.edu /studentlife/studentdevelopment/clubs/media/ionian.cfm   (112 words)

  
 Underthrusting and exhumation: A comparison between the External Hellenides and the “hot” Cycladic and ...
This led to the uplift and erosion of the Pindos unit and the onset of deposition of the Tripolitza and Ionian flysch in front of the Pindos thrust, together with the formation of mylonites at the base of the metamorphosed portions of the Pindos unit related to the underthrusting of the Tripolitza unit.
Event 2 occurred in the latest Oligocene to earliest Miocene and marks the decoupling of the Ionian unit from the underthrusting plate, the accretion of the Tripolitza and Ionian units to the overriding plate, and the onset of late orogenic extension and exhumation in the overriding plate.
This led to the formation of the South Aegean and Cycladic core complexes and the subsidence of the Klematia-Paramythia half-graben throughout the early Miocene.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2005/2004TC001692.shtml   (412 words)

  
 Strategy Notes for Medieval Diplomacy
France in the late 1300's should have been the one of the most powerful nations in Europe, but internal problems (a rebellious Duchy of Burgundy controlled half the kingdom) and continuous feuds with the Empire left France vulnerable to a much weaker England.
Serbia would send his fleets into the Ionian or across Turkey to capture Damascus and Cairo, while you have a clean shot at Aleppo and Kazan.
It is better to arrange a bounce in the Ionian than to allow an enemy fleet to threaten Pec and Salonika.
home.earthlink.net /~amyandsean/dip/Strategy.html   (6303 words)

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