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    Travels Through History - Nine Greek Islands
    Travels Through History - Nine Greek Islands
    Travels Through History - Nine Greek Islands
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    Travels Through History - Nine Greek Islands

    By Julian Worker

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    A travelogue through nine Greek Islands - Rhodes, Symi, Patmos, Samos, Syros, Paros, Tinos, Mykonos, and Delos. The range of history is huge ranging from The Phoenicians to The Ottomans and from The Romans to The Germans in WWII.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAG Books
    Release dateJul 16, 2019
    ISBN9781785389023
    Travels Through History - Nine Greek Islands
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    Julian Worker

    “Little Known British Traditions” is my first book of humourous stories. One of my stories, Safari Sickness, has been recently published in an anthology called “Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana” by Travelers’ Tales. Other articles have recently appeared in the Expeditioner online e-zine, and in Americas the magazine of the Organization of American States. My travel stories have appeared in The Toronto Globe and Mail, The National Catholic Register, International Travel News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Southern Cross newspaper in South Africa. On the Internet my writing has appeared on the following websites: In the Know Traveller, Go World, Paperplates, Intravel, and GoNomad. I have also taken many photographs that have appeared in travel guides/articles by National Geographic, Thomas Cook, The Rough Guides, and The Guardian.

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      Travels Through History - Nine Greek Islands - Julian Worker

      Travels Through History

      Nine Greek Islands

      Julian Worker

      First published in 2018 by

      AG Books

      www.agbooks.co.uk

      Digital edition converted and distributed by

      Andrews UK Limited

      www.andrewsuk.com

      © Copyright 2018 Julian Worker

      The right of Julian Worker to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      The views and opinions expressed herein belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect those of AG Books or Andrews UK Limited.

      Glossary

      The Mycenaean civilization flourished from the 15th to the 13th century BCE and extended its influence not only throughout the Peloponnese in Greece but also across the Aegean, in particular on Crete and the Cyclades.

      The Minoan civilization flourished in the middle Bronze Age on the Mediterranean island of Crete between 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE. With their unique art and architecture, the Minoans made a significant contribution to the development of Western European civilization. Excavating at Knossos from 1900 to 1905, Sir Arthur Evans discovered the extensive ruins seen today, which confirmed the ancient accounts, both literary and mythological, of a sophisticated Cretan culture and possible site of the legendary labyrinth and palace of King Minos. It was Evans who coined the term Minoan in reference to this legendary Bronze Age King.

      Ionia is the name given during ancient times to the central region of Anatolia’s Aegean shore in Asia Minor, present-day Turkey, one of the most important centres of the Greek world. Here the Greeks founded a dozen mini-states, two of them on the offshore islands of Chios and Samos, the rest of them stretching along the strip of mountainous coastland. Ionia was colonized by Greeks from the Athens region around 1000 BCE. The commercial activity in Ionia was in competition with the Phoenicians, who were the leaders of sea-trade at that time. However, some important changes took place on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean during the 8th century BCE. The Phoenician city-states were conquered by the resurgent Assyrians and the Greek city-states took advantage, gradually becoming the leading sea-traders and navigators.

      Phoenicia was an ancient civilization composed of independent city-states which lay along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea stretching through what is now Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel. The Phoenicians were a great maritime people. Phoenician city-states such as Tyre and Sidon began to grow around 3200 BCE and were firmly established by 2750 BCE. Phoenicia soon thrived as a maritime trader and manufacturing centre and was highly regarded for its skills in ship-building, glass-making, and the production of dyes.

      The Carians are mentioned for the first time in the cuneiform texts of the Old Assyrian and Hittite Empires between 1800 and 1200 BCE. Their country was called Karkissa. The Carians are absent from Egyptian texts of this age. After a gap of four centuries, the Carians were then referred to by Homer. In the ‘catalogue of ships’ at the

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