historia: History of the Cyclades

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Corfu ( kor-FOO, -⁠FEW, US also KOR-foo, -⁠few) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kérkyra, pronounced [ˈcercira] ) is one of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, and the northernmost island on Greece's west coast except for its satellite Diapontian Islands, which are also the westernmost point of all Greece. Corfu and the Diapontian Islands mark the International Hydrographic Organization border between the Ionian Sea to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the north. Within the Ionian Islands region, the regional unit of Corfu extends as far south as the Paxoi. The capital and largest city of the regional unit is also named Corfu. The island is bound up with the history of Greece from t…

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Greeks or Hellenes (; Greek: Έλληνες, Éllines [ˈelines]) are an ethnic group indigenous to what is now Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, parts of Egypt and Syria, southern Italy, southern Albania, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. They form a nation within Greece and Cyprus and a significant diaspora (omogenia) around the world. Greek communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, but the Greek people themselves have always been concentrated on the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were…

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Table 4. One population dropped analysis: Decoding sucrose intensity excluding only one population from All neurons.

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Je vous aime – pas moi: Anti-history of a sentence that has been spoken, and one that has only been signed.. The act of speaking has always been so viscerally united with the very essence of being human that its absence is more perturbing than anything else. Before being called deaf, we are called mute. I remember a summer in Sicily where, after playing all day with a kid from the buildings further away, at the moment of saying goodbye he told me ‘Don’t go there, there live the mutes’. He was referring to my home.

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The Cappadocian Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar), or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia; roughly the Nevşehir, Kayseri, Konya provinces and their surroundings in modern-day Turkey. There had been a continuous Greek presence in Cappadocia since antiquity, and by at least the 5th century AD the Greek language had become the lingua franca of the region. In the late 11th century, Seljuq Turks arriving from Central Asia conquered the region after the battle of Mantzikert, beginning its gradual shift in language and religion. In 1923, following the mass killing of Christian O…

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The Cyclades (Greek: Κυκλάδες Kykládes) are Greek islands located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. The archipelago contains some 2,200 islands, islets and rocks; just 33 islands are inhabited. For the ancients, they formed a circle (κύκλος / kyklos in Greek) around the sacred island of Delos, hence the name of the archipelago. The best-known are, from north to south and from east to west: Andros, Tinos, Mykonos, Naxos, Amorgos, Syros, Paros and Antiparos, Ios, Santorini, Anafi, Kea, Kythnos, Serifos, Sifnos, Folegandros and Sikinos, Milos and Kimolos; to these can be added the little Cyclades: Irakleia, Schoinoussa, Koufonisi, Keros and Donoussa, as well as Makronisos between Kea and…