Machairas can refer to: Leontios Machairas, a 15th-century Cypriot Greek historian Machairas Monastery, a 12th-century monastery in Cyprus Machairas, Aetolia-Acarnania...
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Machairas Monastery (Greek: Μαχαιράς [locally [maʃeˈɾas]]) is a historic monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary located about 40 km from the capital of...
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Leontios Machairas or Makhairas (Greek: Λεόντιος Μαχαιράς, French: Léonce Machéras; about 1380 - after 1432) was a historian in medieval Cyprus. The main...
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than a xiphos, because from the height of a horse’s back the cut of a machaira will serve you better than the thrust of a xiphos". The precise wording...
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Antonia "Tonia" Machaira (Greek: Αντωνία "Τόνια" Μαχαίρα; born May 21, 1971) is a retired Greek swimmer, who specialized in sprint and middle-distance...
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flourished during the Middle Ages. Two chronicles, one written by Leontios Machairas and the other by Georgios Boustronios, cover the entire Middle Ages until...
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Grigoris Afxentiou (redirect from Battle of Machairas)
British forces surrounded Afxentiou outside his secret hideout near the Machairas Monastery near Lazanias. At the time, inside the hideout were Afxentiou...
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(θυρεὸς, thyreos) helmet (περικεφαλαία, perikephalaia) sword (μάχαιρα, machaira) These pieces are described in Ephesians as follows: loins girt with truth...
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Thorakitai who used the oval Thureos shield and fought with javelins and the machaira sword. The use of heavily armored cataphracts and also horse archers was...
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Sarcophagus, early 4th century BC. The Athenian peltast is equipped with a machaira sword, a small round shield with a single grip, with javelins wedged in...
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trabajos del Instituto de Restauración y Conservación, 10 F. Quesada Sanz: "Máchaira, kopís, falcata" in Homenaje a Francisco Torrent, Madrid, 1994, pp. 75-94...
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Dimitrios Macheras (redirect from Dimitrios Machairas)
youngsters, including Machairas, were expected to play a major role in the club's fight for a Superleague return. Sure enough, Machairas made 18 appearances...
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type of weapon developed into such heavy chopping weapons as the Greek Machaira and Anatolian Drepanon, and it still survives as the heavy Kukri chopping...
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The Knife Tooth Cat (Machairodus) (from Greek: μαχαίρα machaíra, 'knife' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is a genus of large machairodont or ''saber-toothed...
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Massachusetts.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Machaira, V. (1990). Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. 5.1. pp...
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canines like Homotherium. The name means "dagger-tooth", from Greek μάχαιρα (machaira), sword. Sometimes, other carnivorous mammals with elongated teeth are...
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offensive weapon was the single edged curved-sword, similar to the Greek machaira, a form of weapon that can be traced back to Bronze age times..." The Illyrians...
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Swimming: Men: Christos Papadopoulos Women: Kalliopi Araouzou, Antonia Machaira, Aikaterini Sarakatsani, Katerina Stikoudi, Aikaterini Klepkou, Anna Ntountounaki...
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continued to remain on the island. The medieval Cypriot historian Leontios Machairas recalled that the baptized Turks were not permitted to leave Nicosia when...
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placed in the genus Makaira. This name is derived from the Greek word machaira, meaning "a short sword or bent dagger", and the Latin machaera, "sword"...
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Panagiotis Macheras (redirect from Panagiotis Machairas)
Panagiotis Macheras (Greek: Παναγιώτης Μαχαίρας; born 12 September 1976) is a retired Greek football defender. Panagiotis Macheras at WorldFootball.net...
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with other events taking place in Limassol and the National Park of Machairas. The games were held in nine different municipalities of Liechtenstein...
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became surrounded by British forces outside his secret hideout near the Machairas Monastery near Lazanias, Nicosia. The British troops requested that he...
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calling the later Roman sword gladius hispaniensis in Latin and iberiké machaira in Greek. It is believed Scipio Africanus was the promoter of the change...
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river in Cyprus. The river originates in the Troodos Mountains close to Machairas Monastery and flows northeast across the Mesaoria plains, through the...
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Cyprus from the 4th up to the 15th century by Cypriot chronicler Leontios Machairas Cronaca fiorentina – Chronicle of Florence up to the end of the 14th Century...
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September 7, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2018. Sotiropoulos, Georgios C; Machairas, Nikolaos (September 2016). "Organ donation during the financial crisis...
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works of art, and two types of single-edged cutting swords, the kopis and machaira, are shown in images and are mentioned in texts. An archaeological find...
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Kashmir came into existence. MVC (posthumous)Rajinder Singh (brigadier) Machairas Monastery Near Lazanias, Cyprus 1957 Grigoris Afxentiou † United Kingdom...
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