Greece

There are 1147 items in Greece:

Strymon

Strymon: river in Thrace. Today, it is called Struma (in Bulgarian) and Strymonas (in Greek). The poetic name Kara Su, "the black waters", is Turkish. …

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Sybota (433 BCE)

Naval Battle of Sybota: battle between the Corinthians and Corcyraeans, one of the direct causes of the Peloponnesian War.Introduction In 445, Athens and Sparta put an end to a war that had lasted fifteen years. Both sides were exhausted. The Spartans…

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Syloson

Syloson (Greek: Συλοσών): tyrant of Samos (since 517 BCE), brother of Polycrates. Statue of a warrior from Samos We know about Syloson…

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Syloson's Cloak

In the following text, Herodotus of Halicarnassus tells how Persian king Darius the Geat found a loyal supporter on the Greek island of Samos - although the story is told from another perspective. In 522 or 521 BCE, the leader…

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Tellis

Tellis (third quarter of the fifth century): influential Spartan, father of Brasidas. Fifth-century hoplite. The Spartiate Tellis is mentioned two times in…

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Tempe

Tempe: canyon between the Olympus and Ossa. The canyon of Tempe The so-called "vale" of Tempe is the deep canyon between the…

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