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1111: 693: 897: 665: 866: 828: 78: 2133: 1226: 1003: 568: 1021: 47: 62: 1072:, writing in the 1st century AD, identified Homer's Ithaca with modern Ithaca. Following earlier commentators, he interpreted the word translated above as "low-lying" to mean "close to the mainland", and the phrase translated as "farthest out to sea, towards the sunset" as meaning "farthest of all towards the north." Strabo identified Same as modern Kefalonia, and believed that Homer's Doulichion was one of the islands now known as the 542: 2000: 257: 85: 1095:, the western peninsula of Kefalonia, is Homer's Ithaca. It has been argued that in Homeric times Paliki was separated from Kefalonia by a sea channel since closed up by earthquake-induced rockfalls. However, no scientific review publications are available in support of this theory. Indeed, scholars have found that "all the geological and geomorphological evidence refutes this hypothesis". 1152: 1040:...dwell in clear-seen Ithaca, wherein is a mountain, Neriton, covered with waving forests, conspicuous from afar; and round it lie many isles hard by one another, Dulichium, and Same, and wooded Zacynthus. Ithaca itself lies close in to the mainland the furthest toward the gloom, but the others lie apart toward the Dawn and the sun—a rugged isle, but a good nurse of young men 553:(4000–3000 BC), are not clear. The traces of buildings, walls and a road from this time period prove that life existed and continued to do so during the Early Hellenic era (3000–2000 BC). In the years (2000–1500 BC), some of the population migrated to part of the island. The buildings and walls that were excavated showed the lifestyle of this period had remained primitive. 1163:. The regional unit covers an area of 117.812 square kilometres (45.5 sq mi) and has approximately 100 kilometres (62 miles) of coastline. The main island stretches in the north-south direction, in length of 23 km (14 miles) and maximum width of 6 km (4 miles). It consists of two parts, of about equal size, connected by the narrow 778:
laid claim to the islands diplomatically. Possession of the islands was finally taken by the Ottoman Empire from 1484 to 1499. During this period, the Venetians had strengthened into a major power with an organized fleet. The Venetians pursued their interest in the Ionian Islands, and in 1499 a war
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inscriptions may have been found, near royal remains. In 2010, Greek archaeologists discovered the remains of an 8th-century BC palace in the area of Agios Athanasios, leading to reports that this might have been the site of Odysseus's palace. Modern scholars generally accept the identification of
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by the Ottoman Empire. By then Ithaca was almost uninhabited, and the Venetians had to grant incentives to settlers from neighbouring islands and the mainland to repopulate it. 1504, the Venetians ordered official the repopulation of Ithaca with tax incentives to attract settlers from neighbouring
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In 1479, Ottoman forces reached the islands and many of the people fled from the island out of fear of the new Turkish settlers. Those who remained hid in the mountains to avoid the pirates who controlled the channel between Cephalonia and Ithaca and the bays of the island. In the following five
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and oral traditions, it is believed that the island became the capital of the Ionian Kingdom-State, which included the surrounding lands, and was referred to as one of the most powerful states of that time. The Ithacans were characterized as great navigators and explorers with daring expeditions
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The population welcomed the French, who took care in the control of the administrative and judicial systems, but later the heavy taxation they demanded caused a feeling of indignation among the people. During this short historical period, the new ideas of system and social structure greatly
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as well. The island's populace did not hide their growing demands for enosis, and newspapers on the islands frequently published articles criticising British policies in the protectorate. On the 15th of August in 1849, another rebellion broke out, which was quashed by
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and the Turks began. The allied fleets of the Venetians and the Spanish besieged Ithaca, and the other islands. The fleets prevailed, and from 1500 onwards the Venetians controlled the islands. According to a treaty of 1503, Ithaca, Cephalonia and Zakynthos would be
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Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou, Hampik Maroukian, Efthymios Karymbalis, and Dimitris Papanastassiou, “Geomorphological study and paleogeographic evolution of NW Kefalonia Island, Greece, concerning the hypothesis of a possible location of the Homeric Ithaca,” in
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Despite any difficulties with Homer's description of the island, in classical and Roman times the island now called "Ithaca" was universally held to be the home of Odysseus; the Hellenistic identifications of Homeric sites, such as the identifications of
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during the 18th century the families of Karavias, Petalas and the Dendrinos constituted the three main factions of the island, with the Karavias controlling its most productive part. During the next centuries the island remained under Venetian control.
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The island has been known as Ithaca from an early date, as coins and inscriptions show. Coins from Ithaca frequently portray Odysseus, and an inscription from the 3rd century BC refers to a local hero-shrine of Odysseus and games called the
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The capes in the island include Exogi, the westernmost, Melissa to the north, Mavronos, Agios Ilias, Schinous, Sarakiniko and Agios Ioannis, to the east, and Agiou Andreou, to the south. Bays include Afales Bay to the northwest, Frikes and
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family, who laid claim to it as their property, having received rights over Ithaca under the Tocco regime. However, according to historians, the island received a great population revival in the period before and after the
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Across time, the island fell to various conquerors and experienced changed circumstances, meaning the population of the island kept changing through history. Although there is no definite numerical information until the
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of Aetos (Eagle), just 600 metres (1,969 feet) wide. The two parts enclose the bay of Molos, whose southern branch is the harbor of Vathy, the capital and largest settlement of the island. The second largest village is
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Strabo's explanation has not won universal acceptance. In the last few centuries, some scholars have argued that Homer's Ithaca was not modern Ithaca, but a different island. Perhaps the best known proposal is that of
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It has sometimes been argued that this description does not match the topography of modern Ithaca. Three features of the description have been seen as especially problematic. First, Ithaca is described as "low-lying"
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Ithaca. Those poems are generally thought to have been composed sometime in the 9th or 8th centuries BC, but may have made use of older mythological and poetic traditions; their depiction of the hero
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was founded. From this period, many objects of important historical value have been found during excavations. Among these objects are coins imprinted with the name Ithaca and the image of
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Aetos, Afales, Agios Ioannis, Agia Saranta, Anogi, Exogi, Frikes, Kalivia, Kathara, Kioni, Kolieri, Lachos, Lefki, Marmaka, Perachori, Piso Aetos, Platrithia, Rachi, Stavros, and Vathy.
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influenced the inhabitants of the island. At the end of 1798, the French were succeeded by Russia and Turkey (1798–1807), which were allies at that time. Corfu became the capital of the
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to the east, and Ormos Gulf and Sarakiniko Bay to the southeast. The tallest mountain is Nirito in the northern part (806 m), followed by Merovigli (669 m) in the south.
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Although the name Ithaca or Ithaka has remained unchanged since ancient times, written documents of different periods also refer to the island by other names, such as:
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Ithaca's main island has an area of 96 square kilometres (37 sq mi) and in 2021 had a population of 2,862. It is the second-smallest of the seven main
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prime (800–180 BC), independent organized life continued in the northern and southern part of the island. In the southern part, in the area of Aetos, the town
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and his rule over Ithaca and the surrounding islands and mainland preserves some memories of the political geography, customs, and society of the time.
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Val di Compare (Valley of the Bestman), Piccola (Small) Cephallonia, Anticephallonia (Middle Ages until the beginning of the Venetian period)
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and decreed that it become a British protectorate. Colonel Charles Philippe de Bosset became provisional governor between 1810 and 1814.
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groups started to form. Although their energy in the early years was directed to supporting their fellow Greek revolutionaries in the
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when numerous people from Crete arrived there as well as the noble Karavia family (Latin: Caravia), a branch of the ancient byzantine
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After the end of the Mycenaean period Ithaca's influence diminished, and it came under the jurisdiction of the nearest large island.
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of this regional unit is Ithaca. Ithaca is the only populated island in this municipality, which contains several other islets.
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s description and the actual topography as the product of lack of first-hand knowledge of the island, or as poetic licence.
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Litsa Kontorli-Papadopoulou, Thanasis Papadopoulos, Gareth Owens, “A possible Linear sign from Ithaki (AB09 ‘SE’)?”
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Evgenios Karavias (1752 - 1821) Eminent cleric, Scholar, Metropolitan Bishop of Anchialos, National Martyr and Saint
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Vasilios Karavias (1733 - 1830) Militaryman, one of the pioneers of the Greek revolution in Moldo-Wallachia in 1821
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throughout the 12th and 13th centuries, when it formed part of the holdings of various Latin rulers. In 1185, when
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Karavias Ippokrates (1866 - 1954) Lawyer, journalist and writer. President of Parnassos Philological Association
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Karavias Dimitrios (Misolitros) Fighter of the 1821 Greek Revolution against the Ottomans in Western Greece
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The island, often referred to with the name 'Val di Compare', followed the fortunes of its bigger neighbor
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islands. The Venetian authorities found the island was already being repopulated by members of the
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The origins of the first people to inhabit the island, which occurred during the last years of the
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During the British protectorate period prominent citizens of Ithaki participated in the secret "
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that accepts Ithaca as the home of Ulysses: 'The glorious island⁠ where Ulysses was the king'.
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The island has been inhabited since the 4th millennium BC. It may have been the capital of
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Ithaca lies east of the northeast coast of Cephalonia, from which it is separated by the
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The Ithacan fleet flourished when it was allowed to carry cargo up to the ports of the
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and indulged in a tremendously profitable maritime trade as well as piracy against the
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Zapanti, Stamatoula (1998). "Η Ιθάκη στα πρώτα χρόνια τησ Βενετοκρατίας (1500-1571)".
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island in this picture. The small island in the top-right corner is the uninhabited
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Since antiquity, Ithaca has been identified as the home of the mythological hero
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Ithaki nisos (Greek for island), Thrakoniso, Thakou, Thiakou (Byzantine period)
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The Greek Islands: Guide to the Byzantine and Medieval Buildings and their Art
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In 1809 Great Britain mounted a blockade on the Ionian Islands as part of the
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for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837, with a poetical illustration by
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The island Ithaca is part of the regional unit Ithaca, which is part of the
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occupied the island in the 2nd century BC, and later it became part of the
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modern Ithaca with Homeric Ithaca, and explain discrepancies between the
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and the naval battles against Ottoman ships on the Black Sea and the
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Olive tree of Ithaca that is claimed to be at least 1500 years old.
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Flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands (1815 to 1864).
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Bittlestone, Robert; Diggle, James; Underhill, John (2005),
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and Kadir Bey in 1798 and subsequently became a part of the
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Frank H. Stubbings, "Ithaca", in Wace and Stubbings, eds.,
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period and the capital-state of the small kingdom ruled by
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Note: not all prefectures were subdivided into provinces.
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Ithaque, le Péloponnèse, Troie: recherches archéologiques
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period, it is believed that from the Mycenaean to the
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Ithaca and Homer, The Truth: The Advocacy of the Case
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View of northern Ithaca across the isthmus of Aethos
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ruled Ithaca in the 13th century, and after a short
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Rodwell. pp.  1412: 1295:(1858–1934), philosopher, writer, politician 750: 1891: 1220: 699:, count of Cephalonia, Ithaca and Zakynthos 571:Ithaca is to the upper right of the larger 384:Modern Ithaca is generally identified with 34: 2735: 2721: 2432: 2418: 2285: 2271: 2252:Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian 2040: 2026: 1977:. Translator: Geoffrey Cox. Archived from 1613: 1449: 1447: 1445: 891: 45: 1421: 1947:, Quincy-sous-Sénart, Éd. Tremen, 2001. 1224: 1150: 1109: 1019: 1001: 895: 864: 826: 691: 663: 566: 540: 497:, which was originally established as a 255: 1822:. Oxford University Press. p. 66. 1750: 1622: 1595:The Odyssey with an English Translation 1523: 1442: 1120:The geography and antiquities of Ithaca 723:after Margaritone's death, and then to 4169:Islands of the Ionian Islands (region) 4126: 1836: 1488: 962:, who proceeded to temporarily impose 4082: 2716: 2413: 2342:Islands and islets outside the island 2266: 2021: 1588: 1542: 1347:List of traditional Greek place names 925:revolution against the Ottoman Empire 377:of the regional unit. The capital is 333: 320: 2108:Central Corfu and Diapontian Islands 1928:Iles de Grèce d'Ithaque à Samothrace 1814: 1804:National Library of Australia, Trove 1484: 1482: 1480: 1478: 1476: 473:Ithaca was subsequently occupied by 404: 158:117.8 km (45.5 sq mi) 2066:2,307 km (891 sq mi) 1036:of Homer, Ithaca is described thus 991: 914:United States of the Ionian Islands 814:. According to the French traveler 519:United States of the Ionian Islands 13: 2439: 1970: 1964: 1386: 1364: 1054:πανυπερτάτη εἰν ἁλὶ ... πρὸς ζόφον 761:Ionian Islands under Venetian rule 735:, who in 1357, bestowed them upon 633: 468:Ionian Islands under Venetian rule 14: 4190: 1986: 1473: 1236: 1198: 536: 2131: 1998: 1802:(Canberra: Parrot Press, 2020). 1762:– via www.telegraph.co.uk. 1751:Squires, Nick (24 August 2010). 1665:, Same and Asteris according to 1623:Squires, Nick (24 August 2010). 1425:"Ionian Islands § History"  1091:It has also been suggested that 556: 285: 83: 76: 66:Ithaca within the Ionian Islands 60: 1923:, Canberra, Parrot Press, 2020. 1913: 1874: 1860: 1808: 1792: 1766: 1744: 1731: 1718: 1704: 1655: 1642: 1422:Bourchier, James David (1911). 1324:(1911–1970), writer, journalist 927:, they switched their focus to 517:, Ithaca became a state of the 1691:, Cambridge University Press, 1582: 1557: 1543:Leake, William Martin (1835). 1536: 1517: 659: 583:World Wind satellite picture). 481:. It was liberated by a joint 192:Regional unit and municipality 84: 1: 2302:Communities on the island of 1741:, Band 44 (2005), pp. 183-186 1352: 822: 346:, off the northeast coast of 3308:Eastern Macedonia and Thrace 2248:Decentralized Administration 1957:, Paris, C. Reinwald, 1869. 1357: 1280:(1788–1825), fighter in the 1146: 1088:was the present-day Ithaca. 489:force commanded by admirals 7: 1921:In search of Homeric Ithaca 1800:In search of Homeric Ithaca 1374:. 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Index

Homer's Ithaca

Vathy

Ithaca is located in Greece
38°22′N 20°43′E / 38.367°N 20.717°E / 38.367; 20.717
Ionian Islands
Greece
Region
Ionian Islands
Regional unit and municipality
Ithaca
Vathy
www.ithaki.gr

Odysseus
pileus
/ˈɪθəkə/
Greek
[iˈθaci]
Ancient Greek
[i.tʰá.kɛː]
Greek island
Ionian Sea
Kefalonia
continental Greece
Ionian Islands
Paxi
regional unit
Ionian Islands

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