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Naxos was the first Greek city-state to attempt to leave the Delian League circa 469 BC; Athens quickly quashed the notion and forcibly removed all military naval vessels from the island's control. Athens then demanded all future payments from Naxos in the form of gold rather than military aid.
Naxos (Greek: Νάξος), commonly referred to as Chora (Greek: Χώρα, meaning 'town'), is a city and a former municipality on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades, Greece. The community has 8,897 inhabitants (2021 census). [1] It is located on the west side of Naxos Island in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean.
Regions of the Greek islands. Greece has many islands, [Note 1] with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 [1] to 6,000, [2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 [3] and 227. [2] The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the ...
The journey of Odysseus presented in Homer's Odyssey is a quintessential example of nostos in Ancient Greek literature. Nostos (Ancient Greek: νόστος) is a theme used in Ancient Greek literature, which includes an epic hero returning home, often by sea. In Ancient Greek society, it was deemed a high level of heroism or greatness for those ...
This is a list of Greek island dynasties following the Latin conquest, based on the contributions of historian and professor Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf (1832-1873). ). Hopf's publications, particularly "Urkunden und Zusätze zur Geschichte der Insel Andros und ihrer Beherrscher in dem Zeitraume von 1207 bis 1566," published in the Sitzungsberichte of the Vienna Academy in 1856 ...
Ioannis Kapodistrias. On his arrival, Kapodistrias launched a major reform and modernisation programme that covered all areas. He re-established military unity by bringing an end to the second phase of the civil war; re-organised the military, which was then able to reconquer territory lost to the Ottoman military during the civil wars; [8] and introduced the first modern quarantine system in ...
The island formally joined the Greek State on 7 March 1948 together with the other Dodecanese islands. The island has become more popular in recent years, among tourists looking for an isolated place in the Dodecanese, thanks also to the 1991 Oscar-winning movie Mediterraneo , by Gabriele Salvatores , which is set on the island.
The Castle of Saint George (Greek: Κάστρο Αγίου Γεωργίου), Castle of Cephalonia (Κάστρο Κεφαλληνίας), or simply Kastro (Κάστρο, lit. ' fortress ') [1] was a fortified settlement that was the main town of the island of Cephalonia, Greece, from the Middle Ages until the 18th century.