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Plaka, Lemnos
Plaka () is a village in the northeasternmost part of the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Moudros. The island of Imbros in Turkey is just 24 km northeast. It is situated somewhere in the middle of the straight line between Troy and Mount Athos. Some believe that it is the ''Ermaion lepas'' of the ancient, through which was transmitted with fire the news of the sack of Troy to Argos and Mycenae. Although the edge has an elevation of just 70 m, the cape comes deep into the sea and it is easily seen from those two areas. Therefore, in 1912 a 30 m high rotating lighthouse was built with a luminous range of . Plaka takes its name from the nearby cape Plaka, the northeasternmost point of Lemnos. The cape was mentioned by older travellers under different names: ''Palaqa burnu'' (Piri Reis 1521), ''Blava'' (Belon 1548, Dapper 1688, Choiseul-Gouffier 1788, Lacroix 1858) and ''Plaka'' (Conze 1858, Tozer 1859, De Launay 1894, Hauttecoeur 1903, Fredrich 1904). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Aegean
The North Aegean Region (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, and the smallest of the thirteen by population. It comprises the islands of the north-eastern Aegean Sea, called the North Aegean islands, except for Thasos and Samothrace, which belong to the Greek region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, and Imbros and Tenedos, which belong to Turkey. Administration The North Aegean region was established in the 1987 administrative reform. With the 2010 Kallikratis plan, its powers and authority were redefined and extended. Along with the Southern Aegean region, it is supervised by the Decentralized Administration of the Aegean based at Piraeus. The capital of the region is situated in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Until the Kallikratis reform, the region consisted of the three prefectures of Samos, Chios and Lesbos. Since 1 January 2011, it has been divided into five regional units: Chios, Ikaria, Lemnos, Lesbos, and Samos. The total number of isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piri Reis
Muhiddin Piri ( 1470 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis (), was an Ottoman cartographer, admiral, navigator, corsair, and geographer. He is primarily known today for his cartographic works, including his 1513 world map and the '' Kitab-ı Bahriye'' (''Book of the Sea''), a book with detailed information on early navigational techniques as well as relatively accurate charts for their time, describing the ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea. He was likely born around 1470 in Gelibolu—a major Ottoman naval base—and sailed from an early age with his uncle, Kemal Reis. They fought as corsairs in the Western Mediterranean until they were brought into the Ottoman Navy. Piri Reis fought alongside Kemal Reis in the Ottoman–Venetian wars. After his uncle died, Piri Reis returned to Gelibolu in 1511 to begin his cartographic works. He created the 1513 world map during this period and likely began drafting the charts and notes that would form the basis of the ''Kitab-ı ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reredos
A reredos ( , , ) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a Church (building), church. It often includes religious images. The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular architecture, for example very grand carved chimneypieces. It also refers to a simple, low stone wall placed behind a hearth. Description A reredos can be made of stone, wood, metal, ivory, or a combination of materials. The images may be painted, carved, gilded, composed of mosaics, and/or embedded with Niche (architecture), niches for statues. Sometimes a tapestry or another fabric such as silk or velvet is used. Derivation and history of the term ''Reredos'' is Etymology, derived through Middle English from the 14th-century Anglo-Norman ''areredos'', which in turn is from''arere'' 'behind' +''dos'' 'back', from Latin . (Despite its appearance, the first part of the word is not formed by doubling the prefix "re-", but by an archaic spell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kontopouli
Kontopouli () is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Moudros in the northeastern part of the island of Lemnos, Greece. The community includes the small villages Agios Alexandros and Agios Theodoros. Its total area is 37.04 km2. Kontopouli is 1 km northwest of Kalliopi, 3 km east of Repanidi and 8 km northeast of Moudros. There are several small farming settlements around Kontopouli. Most of them are presently uninhabited, but some date back to the Byzantine era. The most important of these is Agios Alexandros. Other villages are Dimosia, Agios Georgios Amniou (near the Alyki lake), Neftina (on the bay in the northwest where the Turkish manor of Haji Pasha was located), Agios Theodoros (also ''Saravari'') and Geranos (also ''Ageranou''). Population The name The village owes its name to the Byzantine landowner Kontopoulos who donated part of the area to the Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos, according to the historian Komninos Pyromaglou. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hephaestia
Hephaestia and Hephaistia (), or Hephaestias or Hephaistias (Ἡφαιστίας), was a town of Ancient Greece, now an archeological site on the northern shore of Lemnos, Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It was named in the honor of Hephaistos, Greek god of metallurgy, whose cult was maintained on the island. It was once the capital of the island (8th to 6th centuries BCE), of which only the ruins remain. The Greek theater dates from between the late 5th and early 4th century BCE. It underwent reconstruction from 2000 to 2004, and in 2010 the first theater play (Sophocles' ''Oedipus Rex'') was played after 2,500 years. The theatre has capacity of 200 people in the main area, and additional 1,000 outside. History According to the historian Herodotus, the cities of the island of Lemnos, Hephaestia and Myrina (Lemnos), Myrina, were inhabited by Pelasgians. These Pelasgians had promised to return the island to the ancient Athens, Athenians if on any occasion Atheni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agios Ypatios
Repanidi () is a village and a community in the northeast of the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Moudros. It is located 2 km northeast of Romanou, 3 km west of Kontopouli, 3 km east of Lychna, 6 km northeast of Moudros and 21 km northeast of Myrina. Its elevation is 30 m. Population History The village was first mentioned as Repanidion in 1285 in a census record of the monastery ''Pteris'', that was located near Tsimandria, southwestern Lemnos. Among others it had a chapel known as Odigitria. The name probably comes from a plant called "rapanida". In 1418, Buondelmonti mentioned the village as Rapagnidi. Belon wrote in 1548 that the village was situated near a port known as ''Ekato Kefalon'' (Εκατό Κεφαλών = "The Hundred Heads"). This port was also known to 16th-century Ottoman geographer Piri Reis. This indicates that the village was not located in its present-day location, but near present Agios Ypatios. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chryse Island
Chryse (; ), also called Lemnian Chryse, was a small island in the Aegean Sea near Lemnos, mentioned by Homer and Sophocles. By the second century, Pausanias (geographer), PausaniasPausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 8.33.4 and Appian say that it had sunk below the sea. Its location is unknown. The island's main feature was said to be its temple to Apollo, and its patron deity was the goddess Chryse (mythology), Chryse. The Greek archer Philoctetes stopped there on his way to Troy and was bitten by a Viperidae, viper. Lucullus captured three men there in an ambush during the Third Mithridatic War. The island seems to have disappeared by the second century AD. An ancient oracle (written by Onomacritus) may have predicted this end. The ''Description of Greece'' says: Proposed sites An amateur underwater archaeologist claimed to have rediscovered the island in 1960, identifying it with "a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos" (), list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste De Choiseul-Gouffier
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul (27 September 1752, Paris – 20 June 1817, Aix-la-Chapelle), called Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (), was a French diplomat and aristocrat from the Gouffier branch of the Choiseul family. A member of the Académie française, he served as French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1784 until the fall of the French monarchy and a scholar of ancient Greece. Biography Right from his studies at the collège d'Harcourt, he had a passion for antiquities. He was particularly marked by frequent meetings with Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, author of ''Voyage d'Anarcharsis'', whom he met at the home of his cousin the duc de Choiseul. Another friend was Talleyrand, with whom he participated in court intrigues and by whom he was dissuaded from taking up the religious life. In 1776, he left for Greece on board the frigate ''Atalante'', commanded by Joseph Bernard de Chabert, marquis of Chabert, who was interested in astronomy. With painters a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poliochne
Poliochne, often cited under its modern name Poliochni (), was an ancient settlement on the east coast of the island of Lemnos. It was settled in the Late Chalcolithic and earliest Aegean Bronze Age and is believed to be one of the most ancient towns in Europe, preceding Troy I. Anatolian features of the earliest layers were affected by cultural influences from Helladic Greece, about the start of Early Helladic II, ca. 2500 BC. The site, with houses huddled together sharing party walls, was unearthed by excavations of the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens (''Scuola archeologica Italiana di Athene''), beginning in 1930. It is believed that Troy was its main rival commercially; a rivalry that led to the decline of Poliochne circa 2000 BC. Archaeology Following initial soundings, regular campaigns at Poliochne were undertaken under A. Della Seta ( it) in 1931-36, when they were suspended. Following Della Seta's death, excavations were resumed in 1951-53, 1956 and 1960. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
