Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
United States. Coordinates. 41°52′44″N 87°38′51″W. / 41.87889°N 87.64750°W / 41.87889; -87.64750. Website. www .greekislands .net. Greek Islands is a restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, founded by Konstantinos Koutsogeorgas and located at 200 S. Halsted Street in the Greektown neighborhood to the immediate west of downtown Chicago.
Lombards. Lombard possessions in Italy: the Lombard Kingdom ( Neustria, Austria and Tuscia) and the Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento. The Lombards ( / ˈlɒmbərdz, - bɑːrdz, ˈlʌm -/) [1] or Longobards ( Latin: Longobardi) were a Germanic people [2] who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
Triarchy of Negroponte. The Triarchy of Negroponte was a crusader state established on the island of Euboea ( Venetian: Negroponte) after the partition of the Byzantine Empire following the Fourth Crusade. Partitioned into three baronies ( terzieri, "thirds") ( Chalkis, Karystos and Oreos) run by a few interrelated Lombard families, the island ...
North Aegean. / 38.7; 26.0. The North Aegean Region ( Greek: Περιφέρεια Βορείου Αιγαίου, romanized : Periféreia Voreíou Aigaíou, [periˈferia voˈriu eˈʝeu]) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, and the smallest of the thirteen by population. It comprises the islands of the north-eastern Aegean ...
The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.
The re-establishment of the imperial capital in Constantinople in 1261 was accompanied by the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, while the islands remained under Genoese and Venetian control. During the Paleologi dynasty (1261–1453) a new era of Greek patriotism emerged accompanied by a turning back to ancient Greece.
The Ionian islands (Heptanese/Seven islands). A view of Lefkada. The seven islands are, from north to south: Kerkyra (Κέρκυρα) usually known as Corfu in English and Corfù in Italian. Paxi (Παξοί) also known as Paxos in English. Lefkada (Λευκάδα) also known as Lefkas in English. Ithaki (Ιθάκη) usually known as Ithaca in ...
This is a list of Aegean Islands, which includes the English, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, and Italian names for these islands in the Aegean Sea arranged by island group. [Note 1] Since World War II, the vast majority of the islands and islets are in Greek territory with notable exception being the Turkish islands/islets ...