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Agios Georgios (Greek: Άγιος Γεώργιος meaning Saint George) is a village and a former municipality on the island of Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece.Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality North Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. [2]
Chorio or Horio (Greek: Χωριό) is a village in Ano Panta region, on the island of Othoni and it is the westernmost point of Greece. It was the first settlement and the unofficial capital of the island. [2] [3] At the top of the Chorio hill is the Saint George Orthodox
Pagoi (Greek: Πάγοι) is a village in the northwestern part of Corfu Island in Greece, and a community of the municipal unit Agios Georgios. The community consists of the villages Pagoi, Agios Georgios, Prinylas, Roumpatatika and Vatonies. The community had a population of 394 as of the 2021 census.
Saint George (Ancient Greek: Γεώργιος, romanized: Geṓrgios; [note 1] died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army .
Near the island, Pericles defeated the Samians in a naval engagement in 440 BCE. [5] In modern times, the island (dependent on Patmos) was occupied in 1912 by the Kingdom of Italy during the Italo-Turkish war and, after being part of the Italian Islands of the Aegean (of which it was the northernmost islet), [2] was ceded from Italy to Greece in 1947 with the Treaty of Peace.
The Palace of St. Michael and St. George (Greek: Ανάκτορο των Αγίων Μιχαήλ και Γεωργίου) is a palace in Corfu City on the island of Corfu, Greece. Commissioned by Sir Thomas Maitland, it originally served as the residence of the British Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.
The school was based in the Ionian Islands, which were not part of Ottoman Greece, from the middle of the 17th century until the middle of the 19th century. The center of Greek art migrated urgently to the Ionian Islands but countless Greek artists were influenced by the school including the ones living throughout the Greek communities in the ...
Ilias or Elias Moskos (Greek: Ηλίας Μόσκος; 1620/1629- January 26, 1687) was a Greek educator, shipping merchant and painter from Crete.The last name Moskos was associated with three famous painters of the Cretan School alive during the same period, along with Ioannis Moskos and Leos Moskos, possibly his relatives.