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Minoa (Amorgos)
Minoa ( grc, Μινῴα, Μίνωα, or Μινυΐα) was an ancient town on the island of Amorgos. It was the birthplace of Simonides of Amorgos. The site of Minoa is located near modern Katapola Katapola is a small port village on the Greece, Greek island of Amorgos, the easternmost island of the Cyclades. It is located at the foot of a hill which was once the site of the ancient town of Minoa (Amorgos), Minoa, believed to be a summer pa ..., on Moundoulia Hill. References Populated places in the ancient Aegean islands Former populated places in Greece Amorgos Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Greece {{AncientAegean-geo-stub ...
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Ruins Of Minoa (Amorgos)
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Amorgos
Amorgos ( el, Αμοργός, ; ) is the easternmost island of the Cyclades island group and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group in Greece. Along with 16 neighboring islets, the largest of which (by land area) is Nikouria Island, it comprises the municipality of Amorgos, which has a land area of and a population of 1,973 (2011 census). Geography Due to its position near the ancient Ionian towns, such as Miletus, Halicarnassus and Ephesus, Amorgos became one of the first places from which the Ionians passed through to the Cycladic Islands and onto the Greek mainland. History Throughout history, Amorgos was also known as Yperia, or Platagy, Pagali, Psichia, and Karkisia. Amorgos features many remnants of ancient civilizations. At the time of Archaic Greece, there were three independent city-states there. They are believed to have featured autonomous constitutions but the same currency. Amorgos is distinguished by the size and quality of the wall ...
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Simonides Of Amorgos
Semonides of Amorgos (; grc-gre, Σημωνίδης ὁ Ἀμοργῖνος, variantly ; fl. 7th century BC) was a Greek iambic and elegiac poet who is believed to have lived during the seventh century BC. Fragments of his poetry survive as quotations in other ancient authors, the most extensive and well known of which is a satiric account of different types of women which is often cited in discussions of misogyny in Archaic Greece. The poem takes the form of a catalogue, with each type of woman represented by an animal whose characteristics—in the poet's scheme—are also characteristic of a large body of the female population. Other fragments belong to the registers of gnomic poetry and wisdom literature in which the Hesiodic ''Works and Days'' and the '' Theognidea'' are classed, and reflect a similarly pessimistic view of the human experience. There is also evidence that Semonides composed the sort of personal invective found in the work of his near contemporary iambogr ...
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Katapola
Katapola is a small port village on the Greece, Greek island of Amorgos, the easternmost island of the Cyclades. It is located at the foot of a hill which was once the site of the ancient town of Minoa (Amorgos), Minoa, believed to be a summer palace of the mythological Minos, King Minos. The port can be reached by an eight-hour ferry journey from Athens. The population of Katapola municipal district was 595 as of the 2011 Greek census, 2011 census. References

Populated places in Naxos (regional unit) Amorgos {{coord, 25, 51, 53, E, 36, 49, 34, N, display=title ...
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Populated Places In The Ancient Aegean Islands
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Former Populated Places In Greece
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ...
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