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Anafi, the Glossary

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Landforms of Thira (regional unit)
Municipalities of the South Aegean
Populated places in Thira (regional unit)

Acropolis of Athens

The Acropolis of Athens (Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

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Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov

Count Alexei (Alexey) Grigoryevich Orlov-Chesmensky (Алексей Григорьевич Орлов-Чесменский; –) was a Russian soldier, general-in-chief, general admiral and statesman, who rose to prominence during the reign of Catherine the Great.

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Anafiotika

Anafiotika is a scenic tiny neighborhood of the center of Athens, part of the old historical neighborhood called Plaka.

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Argonauts

The Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece.

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Asclepius

Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós; Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Athinios (Santorini)

Athinios port or simply Athinios (Αθηνιός) is the primary ferry port of Santorini, located approximately 10 km south of the capital Fira.

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Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in Athens, Greece.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Caïque

A caïque (καΐκι, kaiki, from kayık) is a traditional fishing boat usually found among the waters of the Ionian or Aegean Sea, and also a light skiff used on the Bosporus.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Anafi and Crete are islands of Greece.

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Cyclades

The Cyclades (Kykládes) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.

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Delos

Delos (Δήλος; Δῆλος, Δᾶλος), is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago. Anafi and Delos are Cyclades, islands of Greece and islands of the South Aegean.

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Duchy of the Archipelago

The Duchy of the Archipelago (Δουκάτο τουΑρχιπελάγους, Ducato dell'arcipelago), also known as Duchy of Naxos or Duchy of the Aegean, was a maritime state created by Venetian interests in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea, in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, centered on the islands of Naxos and Paros.

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Eleonora's falcon

Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a medium-sized falcon.

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Fourth Crusade

The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III.

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Frankokratia

The Frankokratia (Φραγκοκρατία, Francocratia, sometimes anglicized as Francocracy), also known as Latinokratia (Λατινοκρατία, Latinocratia, "rule of the Latins", Latin occupation) and, for the Venetian domains, Venetokratia or Enetokratia (Βενετοκρατία or Ενετοκρατία, Venetocratia, "rule of the Venetians"), was the period in Greek history after the Fourth Crusade (1204), when a number of primarily French and Italian states were established by the Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae on the territory of the dismantled Byzantine Empire.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Government Gazette (Greece)

The Government Gazette (lit; Katharevousa: Ἑφημερίς τῆς Κυβερνήσεως) is the official journal of the Government of Greece which lists all laws passed in a set time period ratified by Cabinet and President.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greece in the Roman era

Greece in the Roman era (Greek: Έλλάς, Latin: Graecia) describes the Roman conquest of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically.

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Greek junta

The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.

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Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829.

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Hayreddin Barbarossa

Hayreddin Barbarossa (Khayr al-Din Barbarus, original name: Khiḍr; Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa), also known as Hayreddin Pasha, Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis (c. 1466/1483 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy.

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Heraklion

Heraklion or Herakleion (Ηράκλειο), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit.

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Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum (p) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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HMS Medina (1840)

HMS Medina was a 2-gun ''Merlin''-class paddle packet boat built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s.

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Internal exile in Greece

Internal exile was used to punish political dissidents by various Greek governments, including the Pangalos and Metaxas regimes, the government during the Greek Civil War, and the Greek junta. Anafi and Internal exile in Greece are islands of Greece and Prison islands.

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James Theodore Bent

James Theodore Bent (30 March 1852 – 5 May 1897) was an English explorer, archaeologist, and author.

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John de lo Cavo

John de lo Cavo or de Capite (Giovanni de lo Cavo) was a Genoese pirate captain who entered the service of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos and became lord of Anafi and Rhodes and megas doux of the Byzantine navy.

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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 165628 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.

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Kolonaki Square

Kolonaki Square (Πλατεία Κολωνακίου) is located in central Athens, Greece.

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Licario

Licario, called Ikarios (Ἰκάριος) by the Greek chroniclers, was a Byzantine admiral of Italian origin in the 13th century.

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Marco I Sanudo

Marco Sanudo (c. 1153 – between 1220 and 1230, most probably 1227) was the creator and first Duke of the Duchy of the Archipelago, in Italian: "Duca del Mare Egeo e Re di Candia", Barone delle Isole di Nasso, Pario, Milo, Marine ed Andri, duchy granted by the Republic of Venice to him and all his descendants, after the Fourth Crusade his lineage became named Sanudo de Candia.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Municipalities and communities of Greece

The municipalities of Greece (translit) are the lowest level of government within the organizational structure of the state.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Piraeus

Piraeus (Πειραιάς; Πειραιεύς; Ancient:, Katharevousa) is a port city within the Athens-Piraeus urban area, in the Attica region of Greece.

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Pisani family

The House of Pisani is a Venetian patrician family, originating from Pisa, which played an important role in the historic, political and economic events of the Venetian Republic during the period between the 12th and the beginning of the 18th century.

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Reed (plant)

Reed is a common name for several tall, grass-like plants of wetlands.

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Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.

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Rhodes

Rhodes (translit) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Anafi and Rhodes are islands of Greece, islands of the South Aegean and municipalities of the South Aegean.

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Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)

The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a major armed conflict that saw Russian arms largely victorious against the Ottoman Empire.

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Santorini

Santorini (Santoríni), officially Thira (Thíra) and Classical Greek Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from its mainland. Anafi and Santorini are Cyclades, islands of the South Aegean, Landforms of Thira (regional unit), Members of the Delian League, municipalities of the South Aegean and Populated places in Thira (regional unit).

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South Aegean

The South Aegean (translit) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.

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Sporades

The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea,"Skyros - Britannica Concise" (description), Britannica Concise, 2006, webpage: notes "including Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros, and Alonnisos." in the Aegean Sea.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anafi

Also known as Anaphe (city), Anaphi, Ancient Anafi, Ancient history of Anafi, History of Anafi, Ανάφη.

, Thira (regional unit), Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, Walter Verlag, William II Crispo.

Anafi, the Glossary

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Landforms of Thira (regional unit)

Municipalities of the South Aegean

Populated places in Thira (regional unit)

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