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	Elea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elea (Velia by the Romans; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a Greek coastal city founded around 540 BC in Lucania in southern Italy, 15 miles southeast of the Gulf of Salerno.
		Elea was founded by Phocaean Greeks fleeing the Persian invasion of Ionia on the western coast of present-day Turkey.
		It, together with the rest of the Greek colonies in southern coastal Italy, formed the so-called Magna Graecia, the Greek expansion into southern Italy, which began in the 8th century BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elea (212 words)

	Asia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This name is first attested in Herodotus (about 440 BC), where it refers to Asia Minor; or, for the purposes of describing the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt.
		The Greek term may be derived from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in Western Anatolia.
		Name of region Continental regions as per UN categorisations (map).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Asia (2919 words)

	Europe - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Mediterranean and, according to the traditional geographic definition, by the Caucasus.
		In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos.
		Greek language, spoken in Greece and the Greek Cypriot community.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Europe (4031 words)

	Africa - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.
		This was proposed by historian Leo Africanus (1495-1554) who suggested the Greek word phrike (φρίκη, meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, thus indicating a land free of cold and horror.
		However, as the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the 10th century, it is unlikely this is the origin.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Africa (4966 words)

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		Creece (Greek: Ελλάδα, older form: Ελλάς, Hellas), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dimokratía; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a country in southern Europe on the tip of the Balkan peninsula.
		The Greeks who remained on the plains during Ottoman occupation were either Christians, who dealt with the burdens of foreign rule, or to a considerable extent Crypto-Christians (Greeks Muslims who were secret practitioners of the Orthodox faith) in order to avoid heavy taxation.
		Greek parliamentary politics hinge upon the principle of the "dedilomeni", the "declared confidence" of Parliament to the Prime Minister and his/her administration.
	www.direct-hotels-online.com /Greece/Greece.html (4227 words)

	Cyprus - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cyprus was placed under British control on 4 June 1878 as a result of the Cyprus Convention, which granted control of the island to Britain in return for British support of the Ottoman Empire in the Russian-Turkish War.
		Greek Cypriot soldiers were taken prisoners, with a number of 1,619 of those still missing and their fate is still unaccounted for.
		Greek is the predominant language in the south, Turkish in the north.
	cyprus.quickseek.com (4093 words)

	Epirus Did You Mean epirus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Epirus (Greek ???????, Ípeiros; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the province of Sterea Ellada (Central Greece) to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north.
		The Greek name Epirus signifies "mainland" or "continent", and was originally applied to the whole coast south to the Corinthian Gulf.
		The main importance of Epirus to the Greek cities (polis) was that it was the location of the shrine and the oracle at Dodona, second in importance only to the oracle at Delphi.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Epirus.html (1689 words)

	Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The mythical ancestor of the Greeks is the eponymous Hellen.
		According to Georgian historians, the name is connected with the notion that philosophy was born in Greece.
		Greeks elect the 300 members of the country's unicameral parliament (the ''Vouli ton Ellinon'') by secret ballot for a maximum of four years, but elections can occur at more frequent intervals.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Greece (4489 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Caria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		{{otheruses}} Caria (Turkish:Kariye, Greek Καρία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a region of Asia Minor, situated south of Ionia, and west of Phrygia and Lycia.
		The name of Caria appears in a number of early languages: Hittite Karkija (a member state of the Assuwa league, ca.
		Afterwards it is said to have received the name of Caria from Car, a legendary early king of the Carians.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Caria (313 words)

	Articles - Byzantium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Byzantium was an ancient Greek city-state, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas.
		The name "Byzantium" is a Latinization of the original Thracian-Greek name Byzantion (Βυζάντιον; see also List of traditional Greek place names).
		The position of head of the Greek Orthodox Church was given to Gennadius II Scholarius by the conquering Muslim Sultan Mehmed II.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/Byzantium (368 words)

	Corinth - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Corinth, or Korinth (Κόρινθος; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek city, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece.
		Naucratis was founded to accommodate the increasing trade volume between the Greek world and the pharaohnic Egypt, during the reign of Pharaoh Psammetichus I of the 26th dynasty.
		During the Greek War of Independence, 1821-1830 the city was totally destroyed by the Turkish forces.
	corinth.quickseek.com (2025 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Phocis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During the Persian invasion of 480 BC the Phocians at first joined in the national defence, but, by their irresolute conduct at the Battle of Thermopylae lost that position for the Greeks; at the Battle of Plataea they were enrolled on the Persian side.
		In 457 an attempt to extend their influence to the headwaters of the Cephissus in the territory of Doris brought a Spartan army into Phocis in defence of the "metropolis of the Dorians".
		The conditions which he imposed – the obligation to restore the temple funds, and the dispersion of the population into open villages – were soon disregarded.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Phocis (812 words)

	Articles - Ionia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Asia, Greeks were named with derivations of "Ionian", such as ´´Yona´´ in Pali and Yavana in Sanskrit.
		In Greek mythology, Ion, regarded as the founder of the Ionian tribe, was the son of
		The victories of the Greeks during the great Persian war had the effect of enfranchizing their kinsmen on the other side of the Aegean; and the battle of Mycale (479 BC), in which the defeat of the Persians was in great measure owing to the Ionians, secured their emancipation.
	www.bronzebass.com /articles/Ionia (1492 words)

	Crete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crete (Greek Κρήτη Kriti; called Candia in the Venetian period and Turkish: Girit) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea.
		To the north Crete borders with the Sea of Crete (Greek: Κρητικό Πέλαγος), to the south it is bordered by the Libyan Sea (Greek: Λιβυκό Πέλαγος), to the west the Myrtoon Sea, to the east the Karpathion Sea.
		Vitsentzos Kornaros (Greek Βικέντιος Κορνάρος) or Vincenzo Cornaro (Sitia, 1553-Candia, 1613, alternate spellings: Vicenzo, Vitzentzos), a Cretian poet of the Greek Renaissance who wrote the romantic epic poem Erotokritos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crete (912 words)

	Site Map - Temple of Troy for everything you need to know about the Greek Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kalymnos is a Greek island in the south-eastern Aegean Sea.
		Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the Dodecanese group of islands, in the Aegean Sea, which it separates from the Gulf of...
		Lefkada, or Lefkas is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge...
	www.templeoftroy.co.uk /kos (767 words)

	Tenea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tenea (Greek:Τενέα, see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an ancient city in North-East Peloponese, Greece.
		It is believed that the first inhabitants were Trojans prisoners of war to whom Agamemnon permitted to built their own town.
		The inhabitants say that they are Trojans who were taken prisoners in Tenedos by the Greeks, and were permitted by Agamemnon to dwell in their present home.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tenea (357 words)

	Greece - 999 Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The historical name of Greece in Greek is Ell¡s.
		Athens (Greek: Athna; IPA) is the capital of Greece, and of the Attica prefecture of Greece.
		Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the Dodecanese group of islands, in the Aegean Sea.
	www.112greece.com (614 words)

	Cyclades - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cyclades, from the Greek Κυκλάδες, ("circular," modern Greek Kykládes; see also List of traditional Greek place names) form an island group south-east of the mainland of Greece.
		The name was originally used to indicate those islands that formed a rough circle around the sacred island of Delos (map).
		A distinctive Neolithic culture amalgamating Anatolian and mainland Greek elements arose in the western Aegean before 4000 BCE, based on emmer wheat and wild-type barley, sheep and goats, pigs, and tuna that were apparently speared from small boats (Rutter).
	cyclades.quickseek.com (493 words)

	Cyprus, Cyprus information
		Both greek and turkish cypriots use the violin as the main solo instrument, accompanied by laouto (form of lute) for greek cypriots and ud for turkish cypriots.
		Greek is predominantly spoken in the south, Turkish in the north.
		Cyprus (in Greek Kypros and in Turkish Kibris) is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, 113 kilometres (70 miles) south of Turkey and around 120 km west of the Syrian coast.
	www.cypruss.co.uk (1576 words)

	Agrigentum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agrigentum is an ancient Greek city on the island Sicily, also known as Agrigento, Acragas or Akragas (see also List of traditional Greek place names).
		The city was built on a cliff on the south-coast of Sicily, surrounded by two rivers (the Hypsas and the Akragas).
		Especially the temple of Concordia is one of the finest examples of Greek Classicism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agrigentum (155 words)

	Panticapaeum
		Panticapaeum (Greek: Παντικάπαιον; see also List of traditional Greek place names), present-day Kerch: an important Greek city and port in the Tauric Chersonesus, situated on a hill (Mt. Mithridates) on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, founded by Milesians in the late 7th–early 6th century BC.
		In the 5th–4th centuries BC, the city became the residence first of the Archaeanactids and then of the Spartocids, dynasties of Greek kings of Bosporus, and was hence itself sometimes called Bosporus.
		Its economic decline in the 4th–3rd centuries BC was the result of the Sarmatian conquest of the steppes and the growing competition of Egyptian grain.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Panticapaeum.html (442 words)

	ooBdoo
		Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and–according to the traditional geographic definition–to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains (in Caucasia).
		Europe's eastern frontier is vague, but has traditionally been given as the divide of the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea to the southeast.
		^ The political name of this state is a matter of international dispute.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/index.php?title=Europe (4081 words)

	Ephesus Did You Mean ephesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, located in Lydia where the Cayster river flows into the Aegean Sea (in modern day Turkey).
		The many-breasted "Lady of Ephesus", identified by Greeks with Artemis, was venerated in the Temple of Artemis, the largest building of the ancient world, according to Pausanias (4.31.8) and one of the Seven Wonders of the World, of which scarcely a trace remains (illustration, left).
		The house of the Virgin Mary, about 7 km from Selçuk, is said by the Roman Catholic Church to have been the last home of the Virgin Mary and is a popular place of pilgrimage.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Ephesus.html (719 words)

	Locri - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Locri Epizephyri (epi-Zephyros, under the West wind; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was founded about 680 BC on the Italian shores of the Ionian Sea, near modern Capo Zefirio, by the Locrians, apparently by Opuntii (East Locrians) from the city of Opus, but including Ozolae (West Locrians) and Lacedaemonians.
		The new temple has the same place as the previous one but it has a different orientation.
		Part of the Cavea (Koilon in Greek) was cut in the rocks.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Locri (496 words)

	Sinope
		Sinop (also Sinope; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a city with a population of 47,000 on the coast of the Black Sea, in the modern region of Galatia in modern-day northern Turkey, historically known as Sinope.
		It was founded as a Greek colony from the city of Miletus in the 7th century BC (Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.15; Diodorus Siculus 14.31.2; Strabo 12.545).
		It escaped Persian domination until the early 4th century BC, and in 183 BC it was captured by Pharnakes I and became capital of the kingdom of Pontus.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Sinope.html (366 words)

	Classical and Medieval History - Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites (Main Reading Room, Library of ...
		The list of emperors (arranged both alphabetically and chronologically) is reasonably complete, but not all have biographies as of yet.
		Traditional articles are included but the focus is on controversial entries and critical reaction to them.
		Tables of Greek abbreviations used in ancient writing, often in order to complete a word at the end of a line.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/alcove9/classics.html (538 words)

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