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  Your Way Sailing Charters Corfu Greece
Rising out of clean and clear waters, the Ionian Islands feature countless villages nestled on the slopes of hills clad in olive and cypress trees.
Winds are usually gentle in the Ionian and rarely reach Force 5 or 6, giving more experienced sailors a chance to put the yacht through her paces, while the less adventurous relax in one of the many small harbours of anchorages.
The Ionian sailing experience is one not to be missed, and provides a splendid holiday for friends and families, and for young and old alike.
www.yourwaysailingcharters.com   (313 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.
Located in the north of the Ionian Sea, opposite the coastline of both Greece and Albania and separated by the Corfu Channel.
The relics were transported to a newer church, which was built inside the fortifications (its present position) and became the property of the Orthodox Church.
www.dilos.com /location/304   (2429 words)

  
 KEFALLINÍA. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It has an irregular coastline and is largely mountainous, rising to c.5,340 ft (1,630 m) at Mt. Ainos, which in ancient times was crowned by a temple to Zeus.
It subsequently was ruled by several Italian families, was seized by the Ottoman Turks (1479), and was ceded (1499) to Venice, which held it until the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797).
Its subsequent history is that of the Ionian Islands.
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ke/Kefallin.html   (178 words)

  
 Ancient history of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Except for Amathus, the Kingdoms of Cyprus, took part in the Ionian rising in 499 BC, following the lead of Onesilos of Salamis, brother of the king of Salamis, whom he dethroned for not wanting to fight for independence.
The Persians crushed the Cypriote armies and laid siege to the fortified towns in 498 BC.
During the Persian rule, Ionian influence on the sculptures intensified, copies of Greek korai appear, as well as statues of men in Greek dress.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_history_of_Cyprus   (2068 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for ionian
Ionian Sea IONIAN SEA [Ionian Sea] part of the Mediterranean Sea, S Europe, between Greece and S Italy.
Ionian school IONIAN SCHOOL [Ionian school] pre-Socratic group of Greek philosophers of the 6th and 5th cent.
It occupies the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsula and borders on the Ionian Sea in the west, on the Mediterranean Sea in the south, on the Aegean Sea in the east, on Turkey
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=ionian   (626 words)

  
 Winds
In the second place the sun after rising always moves to the south, so that the course of the sun is conceived as an arc (not as a circle as it is for us) with the apex directed towards the south and the two points towards the north.
The fact that the sun for some part of the year rises and sets at a point further to the south could be easily explained on the basis of the experience of the sun rising and setting behind a mountain.
He repeats many times tha the opposite point to the point of rising of the Sun at the summer solstice is not the point of setting at the Summer solstice, but that a the Winter solstice, and that the same applies conversely to the point of rising of the sun at the Winter solstice.
www.metrum.org /mapping/winds.htm   (1407 words)

  
 The Persian Invasion of Greece - (CAIS) ©
An envoy was sent from Miletus, the main city of the Ionians, to mainland Greece, petitioning the Greek city-states for armed aid against the Persians.
A message was received from the Ionian Greeks in the summer of 479BCE suggesting that if they were given the support of a fleet they would rise and revolt against the Persians.
The victory at Mycale lead to the Ionian Greeks rising in rebellion throughout the Ionian coastal areas and expelling the Persian tyrants and garrisons.
www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/greece_invasion.htm   (4123 words)

  
 Philologos | The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia | Chapter 19
Ionian Smyrna was a great city, whose dominion extended to the east far beyond the valley, and whose armies contended on even terms against the power of Lydia.
The earlier city had been on a steep lofty hill overhanging on the north the extreme eastern recess of the gulf: the new city was on the southeast shore of the gulf about two miles away.
In fact, the words state plainly that the crown of Smyrna consisted of buildings, and, in the picturesque language of current talk (which always catches salient features), buildings are likened to a crown because they stand on a conspicuous place and in an orderly way.
philologos.org /__eb-lttsc/chap19.htm   (3826 words)

  
 Charm Of Corfu
The Ionian Islands are five in number: Corfu, Leucis, Ithaca, Cephalonia, and Zante, aggregating a territory of more than a thousand square miles, with a population of some three hundred thousand, which in winter receives some accessions by the foreign visitors to Corfu.
From whatever direction the island is approached, it is equally beautiful, with the mountainous heights rising in irregular and picturesque masses; with its myriads of valleys covered with the luxuriant verdure of vines, and the gray-green olive-trees.
The Ionian States were to govern their own internal organization, with a "Lord High Commissioner" from England to adorn the Governor's palace and act as the general head of affairs.
www.oldandsold.com /articles30/athens-10.shtml   (5023 words)

  
 Greek Island Yacht Charter - Corfu, The Ionian Sea.
Strung along the west coast of Greece, the Ionian islands are the only group not in the Aegean, and in many ways they are more reminiscent of their close neighbour, Italy.
The most popular and, by far, the most famous of the Ionian Islands is the lush green, sun drenched paradise of Corfu.
Corfu, with its beguiling landscape of vibrant wildflowers and slender cypress trees rising out of shimmering olive groves, is considered by many to be the most beautiful of all the Greek islands.
www.interyachtcharter.com /greece-corfu.htm   (406 words)

  
 EarlyGkAstronomy.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Counting phases of the moon or observing the annual variations of daylength could, after many years' collection of observations, serve as vital indicators for planting and harvesting times, safe or stormy season for sailing, or time to bring the flocks from winter to summer pastures.
He clocks spring, summer, and harvest by solstices and the rising and setting of certain stars, and notices that the sun migrates southwards in winter.
The third of the Ionian thinkers refined the flat-earth idea, suggesting that all things are produced through a process of gradual condensation and "rarification": earth condenses out of air, and fire is "exhaled" from the earth (Ps.-Plut.
www.perseus.tufts.edu /GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html   (2533 words)

  
 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
He knew they were troublesome and he realized that the Ionian Greeks would be a perpetual bother so long as they could gain help and encouragement from the Greek mainland.
Athens had been a principal ally in the Ionian Revolt and the Athenians quite naturally feared that Darius would be coming after them next.
So worried were the Athenians that in 493 they fined the playwright Phrynichus 1,000 drachmas for his play The Capture of Miletus, which in recounting the events of the Ionian Revolt, reminded them of the reasons for their current difficulty.
the-orb.net /textbooks/westciv/persian.html   (4401 words)

  
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Mist rising from the earth prevented the rings of fire from being seen on the earth.
The Ionians asked, "What is the world made of?" The Pythagoreans asked, "What is its structure?" Thus, the Ionians said the basic world substance was some kind of self-moving matter.
The Atomists returned to the Ionian idea of a self-moving substance, saying that due to their varying sizes and weights, the atoms are in a state of rotary motion for all eternity.
www.hol.gr /greece/texts/aristo1.txt   (4747 words)

  
 Ionian Tour
ZAKYNTHOS: is the third largest of the Ionian Islands and its terrain is varied; there are fertile plains in the southeastern part, which merge gently into peaceful bays and golden beaches while the western side of the island is mountainous with steep cliffs along its coasts.
Fiscardo is one of the most picturesque ports of the Ionian, founded by the Norman Robert Guiskard.
A range of hills rising to a height of 1158 m in Mount Stavrotas and running southwest to end at Cape Doukatou occupies most of the island.
www.paradiseyachtcharters.com /html/Ionian.htm   (2809 words)

  
 Philip Tagg | Harmony - EPMOW entry (2000)
In simple terms, the ionian mode’s fourth is felt to be pulled down to the major third a semitone below, while its major seventh or leading note is so called because it is heard as leading up to the keynote one semitone above.
With the exception of [4], all jazz harmony follows the underlying principles as European art music: flat sevenths tend to fall, sharp sevenths rise, accidentals (alterations) are used for chromatic effect or for modulation, and there is pretty strict adherence to falling, subdominantal (V-I) progressions anticlockwise round the circle of fifths.
The fifth degree triad of minor modes was also often altered to major in European polyphonic music during the ascendancy of the ionian mode, typically to introduce V-I cadences containing dominant sevenths and their double leading notes (see §2.b.ii).
www.tagg.org /articles/epmow/harmony.html   (5719 words)

  
 Corfu island in Greece, introduced by Almi Yachts
Corfu (Kerkyra) is the most important and most northerly of the Ionian islands and is situated only 1 nm off the coast of Albania and the Greek region of Epirus..
From 1386 to 1797 Corfu was held by Venice, thereafter it was briefly part of the Napoleonic empire; and in 1815, together with the rest of the Ionian islands, it was assigned to Britain.
On May 21st 1864, Corfu and the Ionian Islands recovered their Greek identity, and the long years of foreign occupation came to an end.
www.almiyachts.com /greek_islands/ionian_islands/corfu_greece/corfu_greece.html   (759 words)

  
 Remote Sensing Tutorial Page 19-16
Although the ionian surface generally has a temperature of -140° C, hot spots with temperatures up to 1600° C (2900° F) attest to volcanically active areas.
Most of the ionian volcanoes do not appear to be high stratocones such as are displayed as the majestic volcanic peaks observed in the Ring of Fire on Earth.
It is surrounded by a vapor cloud made up of hydrogen, sodium, potassium, and ionized sulfur (derived by sputtering off the ionian surface) which has been stretched out to form a torus around its parent planet.
rst.gsfc.nasa.gov /Sect19/Sect19_16.html   (3022 words)

  
 Ionian Yacht Charter | Greece | The Island of Lefkas.
The Ionian Island of Lefkas is a hilly island lying off the Playia Peninsula in Acarnania, from which it is separated by a shallow lagoon varying in width between 600 m and 5 km.
Most of the island is occupied by a range of hills rising to a height of 1158 m in Mount Stavrotas and running south-west to end at Cape Dhoukatou.
It was from the Leucadian Rock of gleaming white limestone that Sappho threw herself for the love of the handsome Phaon.
www.interyachtcharter.com /greece-lefkas.htm   (298 words)

  
 Io: Moon On Fire :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
To say that Ionian geology is igneous is to underestimate the image of a Jovian moon that is burning from the inside out, from its iron core to its sulfurous crust.
The tallest Ionian mountain measured so far (52,000 feet) is roughly twice the height of Mount Everest.
Living to tell-the-tale after going to the edge of an Ionian volcano is one journey fraught with danger and sacrifice.
www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=648   (1464 words)

  
 The History of Herodotus Chapter VI
The Ionian tyrants sent accordingly by night to their respective citizens, and reported the words of the Persians; but the people were all staunch, and refused to betray their countrymen, those of each state thinking that they alone had had made to them.
For they saw that all was disorder among the Ionians, and they felt also that it was hopeless to contend with the power of the king; since if they defeated the fleet which had been sent against them, they knew that another would come five times as great.
From the Ionian Gulf appeared Amphimnestus, the son of Epistrophus, an Epidamnian; from Aetolia, Males, the brother of that Titormus who excelled all the Greeks in strength, and who wishing to avoid his fellow-men, withdrew himself into the remotest parts of the Aetolian territory.
www.piney.com /Heredotus6.html   (17432 words)

  
 ... < G R E E C E >...
Thus it came about that on the feastday (20 July) of the Prophet Elijah in 1903 there was a Bulgarian rising, known as the Iliden rising, which the Turkish army soon bloodly suppressed.
This rising led also to the destruction of numerous Greek communities and towns in Western and Northern Macedonia, including that of Krusovo.
The rising, however, made plain the danger that Macedonia might be lost for ever, which stimulated a general moblisation on the part of the Greeks.
www.grecian.net /GREECE/macedonia/macedonia.htm   (1050 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Rough Guide to Ionian Islands, 2nd Edition (Rough Guide Travel Guides): Books: John Gill,Nick Edwards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But the major feature that distinguishes the Ionians from the mainland and the central swarm of Greek islands in the Aegean is climatic: a reliable rainfall pattern has allowed centuries of fairly stable agriculture and has nurtured olive trees, vineyards, rich fruit and vegetable crops, and even wheat and cereal farming on some islands.
The Ionian islands display similar geographical characteristics, too: all are mountainous (even tiny Paxi has a small mountain of sorts), with their east coasts tending to be gentle dip slopes above flat, sometimes reclaimed, farm land.
Island-hopping through the Ionian is not as tricky as some people imagine and, with a month on your hands, you could easily get a taster of all six major islands, though you would be unlikely to see any of them in depth.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1858285305?v=glance   (2557 words)

  
 Gissing, By the Ionian Sea
It is barely half a mile long; it rises amid a bed of great reeds, which quite conceal the water, and flows with an average breadth of some ten feet down to the seashore, on either side of it bare, dusty fields, and a few hoary olives.
A wind was rising; at the dim little stations I heard it moan and buffet, and my carriage, where all through the journey I sat alone, seemed the more comfortable.
As soon as I could rise from bed, I must flee Cotrone, and think myself fortunate in escaping alive; but to turn my back on the Lacinian promontory, leaving the cape unvisited, the ruin of the temple unseen, seemed to me a miserable necessity which I should lament as long as I lived.
lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /~matsuoka/GG-Ionian.html   (23398 words)

  
 Waters, HDT, Chpt. 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This 'Ionian school' as it has become known produced (like Thales) results in fields other than basic philosophy; all knowledge was their province, and some half-century after the eclipse Anaximander drew, or more correctly engraved, the first map.
It was no doubt because the Ionian dialect was that predominantly used in late sixth-century and early fifth-century prose literature that Herodotos wrote his book in the dialect of his northern neighbours.
Further, as the twelve cities of the Ionian group were amongst the leaders in trade and commerce (a not insignificant factor in their intellectual progress) their dialect had become familiar to many non-Ionian Greeks, and was well understood in Athens, the reputed 'metropolis' or mother city of the Ionian settlers in Asia (Bk.
luna.cas.usf.edu /~murray/classes/hdt-sem/waters02.htm   (3319 words)

  
 Ionian Basin Tour: April 29 - May 5, 2000
Visiting the Ionian Basin on skis was going to be a special trip for me, and one that I wanted to do alone.
And second, the Ionian Basin's wild terrain, which slows down the hiking with every kind of slope facing all kinds of directions, is a big plus during ski season; there is fun and challenge wherever you want it.
The Ionian Basin is a veritable telemark playground.
www.bobskiing.com /ionia.htm   (1183 words)

  
 Ionian - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ionian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Driven back by the Hittites, they settled all over mainland Greece, later being supplanted by the Achaeans.
In continental Greece (1), on the other hand, but especially in Boeotia, a new form of epic sprang up, which for the romance and PATHOS of the Ionian School substituted the practical and matter-of-fact.
The Chones inhabited the part toward Iapigia and the Ionian Sea which is called Syrtis.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Ionian   (193 words)

  
 ch1
Ancient Greeks were familiar with the dull-white star that shone steadily across the clear skies of the Aegean Sea in the warm glow of dawn.
The Greeks named the evening star that lingered in the sunset glow across the Ionian Sea Hermes, the winged messenger of the gods, while the Thebans recognized it as Horus, the vanquisher of Set and follower of Amun-Ra.
Moreover, Mercury can rise before or set after the Sun by only 2.5 hours at the maximum, so it is rarely seen in the dark sky, but usually only in the twilight glow.
history.nasa.gov /SP-424/ch1.htm   (3309 words)

  
 Prien, Priene, city of Alexander The Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The city which, it is certain, was linked to the Panionion from its foundation onward, was, like all Ionian cities, attacked by the Kimmers in the mid-7 th century BC, but since this sack was of a transitory nature, the city recovered in a short time.
The 6th century BC was the most prosperous era of Priene, as for all other Ionian cities.
After a difficult period, Priene participated in the Ionian revolt against the Persians started in 500 BC and joined the Battle of Lade with 12 ships.
www.didimguide.com /en/priene_prien_selale.html   (891 words)

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