81. Cyprus Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide history. Cyprus has always been an important trading post between the In 1967a military junta took over the Greek government and enosis went out the http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/cyprus/history.htm

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82. Ancient Greece: Archaic Greece, 800-500 BC Second, all the people were not involved in the government slaves, Greek culturewas spreading across the Mediterranean, and Greek commerce was rapidly http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/ARCHAIC.HTM

Greek Dark Ages , the Greeks lived in small tribal units; some of these small tribes were sedentary and agricultural and some were certainly nomadic. They had abandoned their cities between 1200 and 1100 BC for reasons that remain shrouded in mystery; the Greeks believed that a cataclysmic and ferocious invasion of northern Greek barbarians, the Dorians, had wiped out the Mycenean civilization. In reality, the decline and abandonment of urbanization in Greece was probably due to a combination of economic collapse and pressure from northern migrations. Greek life during the "Dark Ages" wasn't dark; it was, in fact, a culturally creative period. This period gave the Greeks the religion their religion, mythology, and foundational history in their final forms; the close of the Dark Ages would also gave the Greeks the rudiments of their greatest political achievement: the polis , or "city-state." Archaic Period ; while the separate states had close interaction with one another during this time and certainly learned political organization from one another, in many ways, however, each city-state developed fairly unique and independent cultures and political organizations (notice that the word "political" is derived from the word polis monarchies . In their earliest stages, they were ruled by a

83. The Amazing Ancient World - Premier Ancient Civilization Internet Book ACT I - P Start with Chronology of Greek history. All her books are here with synopsis, There are continuous negotiations between the Greek government, http://www.omnibusol.com/angreece.html

Core Page PartI- Egypt Part II - Greece Part III - Rome Part IV - Bridges THE AMAZING ANCIENT WORLD OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ACT I: PART II GREECE This Internet Book visited 19, 743,856 times since April 1997 (as of 2004) The PREMIER JOURNEY to The Ancient World, weaving together the Peoples of those lands and civilizations and the way they lived and - their thoughts, their hopes, their dreams, their lives. What is the Ancient World? Greece, Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Sumer, Nubia, Persia, Byzantium, Turkey? Or is it Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hebrews, Hittites, Akkadians, Etruscans, Minoans? Is it Alexander, Plato, Virgil, Socrates, Hammurabi, Aristotle, Nefertiti, the Pharaohs, Emperors, Caesar, Cleopatra, Sargon, Akhenaton, the Black Athena, Homer? Or is it the dinosaurs, Stonehenge, hunters, slaves, women, rulers, soldiers, or the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Odyssey, the Olympics? Is it found in the ruins, temples, forums, pyramids or in the remnants of ordinary life? Explore through this Web Book and the Online College Course. Ancient Civilization did not begin in what we think of as the West. It did not start in Paris or Berlin or London or Prague or Brussels or Stockholm. It grew out of the Mediterranean breezes, the sun and desert of Northern Africa, the Persian and West Asian lands. To study Ancient Civilization is to travel - across parts of Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to India. It is a linking voyage, not a reducing trip. It CONNECTS peoples, ideas, patterns, developments, organizations, wars, religions, art, architecture, food and drink. It is a human endeavor about a human story.

84. History & Culture history. culture Highlights of Contemporary culture- Pharaohs depended onGreek mercenaries to enforce law and face foreign invasions (Assyrian and http://www.embassy-avenue.jp/egypt/history.htm

Select the information you want to see. History Culture -Highlights of Contemporary Culture- Links Egypt is home to one of the richest and most ancient civilizationsin the world, extending to several millennia BCE. For centuries, this civilization continued to be a source of enlightenment to the whole world. The remains of its wonders still marvel students of Egyptology and history as well as tourists that come to watch it from all over the world. Egypt has always been at the heart of successive and innovative human, social and cultural interaction. This interaction has made an important contribution to the making of Egypt's history, society and culture. Indeed one of the most salient characters of contemporary Egyptian society and culture is the multiplicity of its historical experiences and the diversity of its cultural ingredients ANCIENT EGYPT The history of ancient Egypt extends over the period from 3100 BCE to 322 BCE. This period can be divided into 30 dynasties (30 ruling families) which can, in turn, be grouped into four main groups, the old kingdom, middle kingdom, new kingdom and the late period. This extended history saw the repetition of cycles of long periods of prosperity and great achievements followed by periods of stagnation and deterioration with short incidence of foreign rule. The Archaic kingdom (3100-2181 BCE, 1st-6th Dynasties)

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86. History Of The Greek Language The history of the Greek Language begins, as far as the surviving texts are along with Greek culture more generally, far into the Near East where it http://www.greek-language.com/historyofgreek/

Home Alphabet and Writing Bibliographies Bookstore ... Sites of Related Interest A Quick Overview of the History of the Greek Language by Micheal Palmer This page offers only a very brief introduction to the basics of the history of the Greek Language. For a thorough treatment of the topic, read Geoffrey Horrocks' book, Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers The history of the Greek Language begins, as far as the surviving texts are concerned, with the Mycenaean civilization at least as early as the thirteenth century BCE. The earliest texts are written in a script called Linear B . After the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization (around 1200 BCE) writing disappeared from Greece. In the late ninth to early eighth century BCE ascript based on the Phoenician syllabary was introduced, with unneeded consonant symbols being reused to represent the Greek vowels. The oldest surviving alphabetic inscriptions are written using this new system and date from the late eighth century BCE. In the classical or hellenic period Greek existed in several major dialects, each of which has its own significance for the history of the language, but the most influential of these would ultimately prove to be the one spoken in Athens, called

87. California State Library - History And Culture - State Insignia history and culture State Insignia The Greek word Eureka has appeared onthe state seal since 1849 and means I have found it . http://www.library.ca.gov/history/cahinsig.cfm

California Home Home About: Mission Location / Hours Staff Contacts Jobs at CSL ... More... Research: Online Catalogs Electronic Databases CA Research Bureau Genealogy ... More... Publications: CSL Connection CA Library Directory CA Library Laws CA Research Bureau ... More... Grants: LSTA Library Construction Cultural Endowment Civil Liberties Services To: State Government Local Government Libraries The Public ... CSL Foundation My CA State Library History and Culture - State Insignia State Animal State Bird State Color State Dance ... State Tree State Animal The California grizzly bear ( Ursus californicus ) was designated official State Animal in 1953. Before dying out in California, this largest and most powerful of carnivores thrived in the great valleys and low mountains of the state, probably in greater numbers than anywhere else in the United States. As humans began to populate California, the grizzly stood its ground, refusing to retreat in the face of advancing civilization. It killed livestock and interfered with settlers. Less than 75 years after the discovery of gold, every grizzly bear in California had been tracked down and killed. The last one was killed in Tulare County in August 1922, more than 20 years before the authority to regulate the take of fish and wildlife was delegated to the California Fish and Game Commission by the State Legislature.

88. A Short History Of The Jews Of Greece:Ancient Times To The 1940's Jewish history in greece from ancient times to the start of world war two,, Integration into the cultural pattern of Greek life can be seen in the loss http://www.greecetravel.com/jewishhistory/ancient.html

A Short History of the Jews of Greece Ancient Times to the 1940's Menorah carved on marble found in the Ancient Agora of Athens, 500 C.E. Front Page Ancient times to the 20th Century The Nazi Occupation German Zone ... The Jewish Museum Colophon from manuscript. 1578 C.E. Byzantine Jews-Mt Athos 10th Cen. Aleph-wall amulet. Patras, 19th Cen. Two Jewish women 1574 C.E. Jewish doctor and merchant. 1574 C.E. A scene in the Kasim Pasa Cemetery of Istanbul by A. Preziosi, c. 1841 Synagogue of Sardes, c. 350 C.E. Throne of Moses in the Synagogue of Delos from 1st Century BC The Rojo Quarter of Salonika. 17th Century Two ladies from Komotini, 1925 Rabbi E. Cohen, Athens, 1894 Benveniste Family Picture, Salonika 1904 Purim Celebration play, Larissa, 1918. Family picture, Hania Crete 1900 Family picture, Hania Crete 1900 Rabbinical official in the Jewish Cemetery of Salonika, 1918 Jewish Cemetery of Salonika, 1918 Post-nuptial scene in Jewish Quarter of Ioannina, 1904 Kal Yashan Synagogue in Salonika destroyed in 1917 Jewish presence in Greece dates at least to the mention by Strabo in approximately 85 B.C.E. that Jews could be found in all the cities of the eastern Mediterranean (VII 7 4). There may well have been Jews, if not Jewish communities, living in Greek cities as far back as the Babylonian Exile (586-530 B.C.E.). After the wars of the Maccabees, between 170 and 161 B.C.E., many Hellenized Jews left Judaea and settled in the new commercial centers, such as Alexandria and Antioch, of the Hellenistic world. From these communities smaller groups moved to some of the coastal Aegean cities such as Ephesus, Smyrna, Thessaloniki, and, according to tradition, Chalkis. Jewish communities also may have been founded on Crete at this time. In any case, by the time of the Apostle Paul there were flourishing Jewish communities in most of the major Greek cities.

89. Archaeology Resources Directory of Open Access Journals history and Archaeology to promote themutual understanding of Greek and Irish culture through lectures and other http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/guides_to_web_resources/archaeolo

UCD Home Contact UCD Directories SEARCH UCD Advanced Search UCD CONNECT LOG IN About UCD Connect Library Staff Intranet Log-in Privacy Site Map ... Freedom of Information breadCrumbs("www.ucd.ie/library",">","index.html","None","None","None","0"); Archaeology Resources on the Web The UCD Archaeology Department has a very comprehensive Links page on the Departmental web site. Check under Resources in particular for sites relating to Ireland, Great Britain and the wider world, which will be complemented by the links listed here. Contents General Journals Greece and Rome Near East ... Australia and the Pacific General AREA-ARchives of European Archaeology AREA is a research network of European Institutions - from Greece, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, France and Poland - dedicated to the history of archaeology, with particular emphasis on the archives of the discipline, their promotion and preservation. The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Web. World Monuments Fund 100 Most Endangered Sites Provides a list of 100 cultural heritage sites around the world whose continued existence is threatened, in order to focus attention on their cultural significance, and help to raise funds for their rescue. List is arranged geographically, and accessible via a clickable map

90. Iran Chamber Society ancient Imperial Armies, historic inscriptions, Greek and Arab invasions, Exhibitions and Conferences on Iranian art, culture and history http://www.iranchamber.com/index.php

Home History Iran's Guide Podium This is a comprehensive section, which pays lots of attention to Iran's culture, cultural events, music, religious music, musicians, musical instruments, visual arts, artists, cinema, film makers, language, literature, writers, poets and their biographies. Iranian old scripts and their fonts, museums, galleries, cuisines and their recipes, rituals, religions, Persian carpet, architecture and many more are covered here as well. History of Iran This section covers the historic events, history of ancient Iran (Persia), birth of the Iranian (Persian) Empires, ancient Imperial Armies, historic inscriptions, Greek and Arab invasions, Iranian identity challenges, Mongolian invasion, rebirth of Imperial Iranian dynasties, Persian Gulf and its history. Historic movements and revolutions, contemporary history, history articles, historical personalities and photos are featured too. Iran's Guide In this section attention's gone to Iran's cities, places, geography, facts and figures, national monuments, flags and national anthem, cities' dialing codes, government and ministries, Iranian embassies abroad, media and sport. Iranian all times personalities are covered here as well as Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran, education, higher education, universities in Iran, Iranian people and tribes. The Iranian wedding ceremony despite its local and regional variations, like many other rituals in the country goes back to the ancient Zoroastrian tradition.

91. Museum Of The History Of The Greek Costume Of The Lyceum Club Of Greek Women the Greek Costume was inaugurated in 1988 by the then Minister of culture The Museum of the history of the Greek Costume is housed in a twostorey http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42101/421020/e4210201.html

Museum of the History of the Greek Costume of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women T he Museum of the History of the Greek Costume was inaugurated in 1988 by the then Minister of Culture Melina Merkouri , and constitutes a part of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women , a non-profit organization, founded in 1910. The Lyceum Club of Greek Women is governed by an Administrative Council numbering 25 to 27 members. The present president of the Council is Mrs. Eleni Tsaldaris, and the Head of the Section of National Costumes, to which the Museum belongs, is Penelope Sakkopoulou-Valtazanou. The Museum of the History of the Greek Costume is housed in a two-storey edifice, built in the 1920s by the civil engineer, Elias Economou, to serve as his private residence. It was purchased in 1985 by the Lyceum Club of Greek Women, and arranged to accommodate the Club's costume collection. History T o follow the course of the creation and enrichment of the collection of the Museum of the History of the Greek Traditional Costume, we must go back to the first decades of the century. The Museum's collection of Greek costumes and related accessories was started in the second decade of our century, with the first gifts and purchases which formed the nucleus of the Wardrobe of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women, under the National Costumes Section of the Club. Already upon acquisition of the first costumes, the founder of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women, Callirrhoe Parren, had expressed the desire to see the creation of a "sort of ethnological museum that would complement the official Government museums".

92. Ancient Greece: Information From Answers.com Ancient greece history of greece series Aegean Civilization before 1600 BC Some of the greatest names of Western cultural and intellectual history lived http://www.answers.com/topic/ancient-greece

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93. The British Museum: Newsroom The Greek government is asking for the perpetual removal of all of the Parthenon Here as nowhere else greece s cultural debts to the other great http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/newsroom/current2003/parsculpt.htm

Download Word Doc Why are the Parthenon Sculptures always in the news? What is the Parthenon and how did the sculptures come to London? The Parthenon in Athens is a building with a long and complex history. Built nearly 2500 years ago as a temple to the Greek goddess Athena, it was for a thousand years the church of the Virgin Mary of the Athenians, then a mosque, and finally an archaeological ruin. The building was altered and the sculptures much damged over the course of the centuries, and in 1687 a huge explosion blew the roof off and destroyed a large portion of the remaining sculptures, when gunpowder was stored inside it during a siege of the city. The building has been a ruin ever since. By 1800 only 50 % of the original sculptural decoration remained. Between 1801 and 1805 Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire of which Athens had been a part for some 350 years, removed about half of the remaining sculptures from the rubble and from the building itself and brought them back to Britain. He acted with the full knowledge and permission of the Ottoman authorities. Lord Elgin's actions preserved the sculptures that were brought to London from further weathering and destruction from pollution.

94. TheoLogic Systems Orthodox WorldLinks: Ethnic : Greek Search only in Ethnic Greek category Advanced Search Options Greek Legacy,Inc. Greek news highlights, books on modern Greek history and culture, http://www.theologic.com/links/Ethnic/Greek/

Orthodox WorldLinks Ethnic : Greek Top Add Link Modify Link New Sites ... TheoLogic Systems Search for: Search only in Ethnic : Greek category Advanced Search Options Links: Ariadne: Hellenic-Greek N.A.O.S. - The purpose of this server is to provide info for Greece mainly through pages that have been created insite. It also presents a geographical distribution within Greece of other Hellenic servers. Greece (Added 21-Sep-1998 / 267 Hits to date) Ariadnet Greek Academic and Research Computer Network - Home of Hellenic Radio News on-line and other Hellenic cultural and education resources. Athens / Greece (Added 18-Aug-1998 / 176 Hits to date) GoGreece.com: The Internet Guide to Greece - A collection of the best links to content valuable for any virtual traveler to Greece. Santa Monica / United States (Added 20-Aug-1998 / 235 Hits to date) Greek American Business Internet Directory - Search among many businesses or contacts for members of the Greek American community in any city or state in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, you can find associations, student organizations, and Greek Government agencies in your nearest North American city. Santa Monica, CA / United States

95. Hellenic News Of America THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR GREEK LANGUAGE AND culture (AFGLC) and the It should be pointed out that the Greek government has evaluated the AFGLC http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=3632&lang=US

96. History Of Romanians government of Romania. history of Romanians Ion Calafeteanu The contact ofthe Geto-Dacians with the Greek world was made easy by the Greek colonies http://domino.kappa.ro/guvern/istoria-e.html

Romana Home Page Prime Minister Cabinet ... Contact us Government of Romania History of Romanians - Ion Calafeteanu Illustrated History of Romanians History of Romania (ICI) Romania is situated in Central Europe, in the northern part of the Balkan peninsula and its territory is marked by the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube and the Black Sea. With its temperate climate and varied natural environment, which is favourable to life, the Romanian territory has been inhabited since time immemorial. The research done by Romanian archaeologists at Bugiulesti, Valcea Country, has led to the discovery of traces of human presence dating back as early as the Lower Palaeolithic (approximately two million years BC). These vestiges are among the oldest in Europe, revealing a period when "man," a humanoid in fact, went physically and spiritually through the stages of his coming out of the animal status. A denser human population, ("the Neanderthal man") can be proved to have lived about 100,000 years ago; a relatively stable population can only be found beginning with the Neolithic (6-5,000 years BC). Cucuteni pottery At the time, the population on the territory of present-day Romania created a remarkable culture, whose proof is the polychrome pottery of the "Cucuteni" culture (comparable to the pottery of other important European cultures of the time in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East) and the statuettes of the "Hamangia" culture (the Thinker of Hamangia is known today to the whole world).

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99. MACEDONIA "TRUE MACEDONIANS WERE AND ARE GREEK" why you want to use his symbols his culture his name his history and claim not give them the right to steal the GreekMacedonian history and culture. http://www.macedonia.info/fyrom.htm

FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY Opinions expressed from FYROM web sites: 1) Some of them believe they are descendants of ancient Macedonians 2) Some of them believe that they can consider themselves Macedonians since they live in a part of what used to be ancient Macedonia 3) Some of them believe they are Macedonians but not directly linked to ancient Macedonians 4) Some of them believe they are Macedonians because they are free to call themselves as they like! "We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians." Quote from FYROM'S President Mr. Kiro Gligorov. (from the Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35. ) " We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia. The ancient Macedonians no longer exist, they had disappeared from history long time ago. Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century (AD)." Quote from FYROM'S President Mr. Kiro Gligorov.

100. Lecture 15: Christianity As A Cultural Revolution A lecture discussing the history of early Christianity in Europe down to the monastic They also developed a systematic government within the church. http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture15b.html

Lecture 15 Christianity as a Cultural Revolution When Christianity came to the Roman Empire it performed perhaps one of the most significant cultural revolutions in the history of the West. In general, Christian values stood directly opposed to those values of classical thought, that is, of the Greco-Roman tradition. This tradition taught that man ought to seek the good life today, here in this world, in the present world, and for the Romans, that meant the Empire. Christianity taught that our earthly existence was merely a preparation for life after death. Our life on earth was temporary, a stopping off point before the journey into eternal life. The visible world was a world of exile. We are all held as prisoners in Plato's Cave. Christianity first appeared as yet another mystery religion or mystery cult. For many mystery cults, salvation was to come from a person's association, through a mystical rite, with a hero who had conquered death. Jesus was one such hero. He claimed the faith of his followers because he had risen from the dead. Unlike other mystery cults, however, salvation for the Christian required rituals, mysteries and sacraments. It required a moral life as well. Jesus was also an historical figure he was a real man, not some mythical hero as other mystery cults had taught. From about 100 to 337, the Church in the Empire remained an illegal and persecuted sect. Still, the Church succeeded in adding to its numbers. It also developed a coherent body of theological and administrative opinion. By the early 4th century, the Christian faith had penetrated much of the world of the Roman Empire: it was the largest single religion within the Empire. The reasons for this growth are diverse. For instance Jewish communities were scattered throughout the Empire and Christians moving from community to community could preach their ideas in Jewish synagogues. The Christians also inherited the sacred writings of the Jews with the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament (written in Hebrew). And by 300, the twenty-seven books of the New Testament (written in Greek) were also available. Christianity also held out the promise of man's ultimate salvation, that the meek shall inherit the world.

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