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Ellinika Chronika
''Ellinika Chronika'' ( el, Ελληνικά Χρονικά, , Greek Chronicles) was the name of a newspaper published by the Swiss philhellene, John Jacob Mayer, in Missolonghi, during the Greek War of Independence. On December 18, 1823, Mayer announced the newspaper's publication with a leaflet which also contained a Mayer's text and an extract of a Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham (; 15 February 1748 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._4_February_1747.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 4 February 1747">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.htm ...'s essay about free press. On December 24, 1823, a special edition of ''Ellinika Chronika'' was printed and on January 1, 1824, its regular edition began. During 1824, 106 issues were published, followed by 105 in 1825, and further 15 from February 6 to February 20, 1826, when its print stopped. The newspaper had distributors in many Greek cities and abroad. The annual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellinika Xronika 1825 01 07
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
