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| | Venus de Milo |
 | | Whoever enters the exhibition hall where the Venus stands, has the illusion that there is nothing else in the whole gigantic museum, beyond this statue of Venus. |
 | | On 8th April 1820, a day for which Milos was to become better known to the world, an inhabitant of Plaka, George Kentrotas, was digging in his field, in the area of the Ancient City. |
 | | The reason was that Kentrotas, under pressure from the elder of the island, had sold it to a certain papa-Makarios Vergis, acting on behalf of the dragoman (guide and translator) of the Turkish fleet, the Prince of Moldavia, Nicholas Mourouzis. |
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