The Ionian Islands : aspects of their history and culture

The Ionian Islands : aspects of their history and culture / edited by Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon.

The Ionian Islands stretch south from the Adriatic, where Corfu's Pantokrator mountain overlooks Albania across narrow straits, along the western coast of mainland Greece through Paxi, Kephalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada and Zakynthos, to Kythira, midway between Athens and Crete. Three crucial sea-batt...

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Other Authors: Hirst, Anthony (Editor), Sammon, Patrick (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
European history.
Classical history > classical civilisation.
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Ionian Islands (Greece) > History.
Greece > Ionian Islands
History
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Summary:The Ionian Islands stretch south from the Adriatic, where Corfu's Pantokrator mountain overlooks Albania across narrow straits, along the western coast of mainland Greece through Paxi, Kephalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada and Zakynthos, to Kythira, midway between Athens and Crete. Three crucial sea-battles were fought here-Sybota (the first recorded), Actium and Lepanto-an indication of the Ionians' role as an East-West crossroads, between Western Christendom and the Orthodox and Islamic East. Ruled ...
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781443862783
1443862789
1322144591
9781322144597
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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