The Old Fortress of Corfu (Greek: Παλαιό Φρούριο, Venetian: Fortezza Vecchia) is a Venetian fortress in the city of Corfu. The fortress covers the promontory...

The New Fortress of Corfu (Greek: Νέο Φρούριο; Venetian: Fortezza Nuova) is a Venetian fortress built on the hill of St. Mark in Corfu in stages. The original...

Corfu city Pelekas village Kaiser's Bridge in Corfu c. 1918 Workers on Corfu. The image shows the Old Fortress. First World War Aspioti-ELKA Cuisine of the...

Castello a Mare ("Fort on the Sea" in Italian) is a fortress located at the entrance of the old port of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It was built by the...

13th-century Byzantine castle on the southwestern coast of Corfu and the only surviving medieval fortress on the southern part of the island. It was built by...

the Knights Hospitaller that functioned as a palace, headquarters, and fortress. According to recent study, in the exact spot in which the palace exists...

erected in his honour in front of the gateway to the Old Fortress in Corfu. The defence of Corfu was also commemorated in Venice with the erection of...

taken away as slaves by the army of the Sultan. Even at the Old Fortress in the City of Corfu, the weaker segments of the civilian population, women, children...

Palamidi (Greek: Παλαμήδι) is a fortress to the east of the Acronauplia in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Nestled on...

Corfu (/kɔːrˈf(j)uː/, also US: /ˈkɔːrf(j)uː/) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kérkyra, pronounced [ˈcercira] ; Ancient Greek: Κόρκυρα, romanized: Kórkyra...

Venetian map of Negroponte (Chalkis) Fortress of Nafpaktos Old Fortress, Corfu Palamidi, Nafplion Rocca a Mare fortress in Heraklion The Morosini fountain...

The Old Navarino castle (Greek: Παλαιό Ναυαρίνο) is a 13th-century Frankish fortress near Pylos, Greece. It is one of two castles guarding the bay on which...

earthquake shook the island in 1481. After the siege and earthquake, the fortress was greatly strengthened against artillery according to the new school...

The Fortezza (Greek: Φορτέτζα, from Italian for "fortress") is the citadel of the city of Rethymno in Crete, Greece. It was built by the Venetians in the...

northern Italy. The overseas possessions, particularly islands such as Corfu, Crete, and Cyprus, played a critical role in Venice's commercial and military...

liberation of Greece from Nazi Germany, old drachma were exchanged for new ones at the rate of 50,000,000,000 old drachmae to 1 new drachma. Only paper...

although the construction was completed by the engineer Brancaleone. This Fortress was constructed by the Venetians after the departure of Mahmut Pasha in...

acropolis of mainland Greece." With its secure water supply, Acrocorinth's fortress was repeatedly used as a last line of defense in southern Greece because...

Castle of Kalamata (Greek: Κάστρο της Καλαμάτας) is a ruined medieval fortress in Kalamata, the capital of Messenia in southern Greece. The present structure...

Angelokastro and the Old Fortress of Corfu. The consequence of the Venetian action was that during the Turkish sieges of Corfu in 1537 and 1716 the local...

Fortifications of Chania Fortifications of Heraklion Gouverneto Monastery Koules Fortress Toplou Monastery New Fortress, Corfu Old Fortress, Corfu Palamidi...

Police in the New Fortress. At 17:05 the Italians bombarded Corfu for 20 minutes. There were victims among the refugees of the old Fortress and the Prefect...

Thessaloniki or the Greek islands (especially Crete, Syros, Rhodes and Corfu). Today, the majority of Catholics live in Athens, a city of about four...

Venetian forces, with only 3,600 fit men and scant supplies to defend the fortress. He, therefore, accepted terms and surrendered to Ahmed Köprülü, the Grand...

continued to resist, however, and established a base inland, around the fortress of Apalyros/Apalire. The latter fell to Sanudo after a five or six weeks'...

value, and is dated during the first period that the Turks occupied the fortress. The west part of the walls is not as well constructed as the others. It...

the fortifications, but they were soon rebuilt. The Byzantines built a fortress on the highest part of the town. When the Knights Hospitaller conquered...

Venetian map of Negroponte (Chalkis) Fortress of Nafpaktos Old Fortress, Corfu Palamidi, Nafplion Rocca a Mare fortress in Heraklion The Morosini fountain...

Fortifications of Chania Fortifications of Heraklion Gouverneto Monastery Koules Fortress Toplou Monastery New Fortress, Corfu Old Fortress, Corfu Palamidi...

archipelago, Corfu. The city of Corfu is located on the east coast in the central part of the island between two forts: The medieval Old Fortress, on the eastern...