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    Strofades (Greek: Στροφάδες; also called Strofadia, Στροφάδια, or Stromphides, Στρόμφιδες) is a group of two small Greek islands in the Ionian Islands...
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    Navtilos Pontikonisi Proti Sphacteria Skorpios Sparti (Lefkada) Stillo Strofades Tongo Vido The Sea was the location of the famous naval battle between...
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    Gorgons and Geryon. Their abode was described as either the islands called Strofades, a place at the entrance of Orcus, or a cave in Crete. Hesiod calls them...
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    el-Arish, Egypt on board the private-charter roll-on/roll-off ferry M.V. Strofades IV, which left port unexpectedly without any of the aid after the ship's...
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    Meganisi Navtilos Pontikonisi Proti Sphacteria Skorpios Sparti (Lefkada) Strofades Vido Greek islands: Aegean Islands, Saronic Islands, Crete, Cyclades,...
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    study. Tonsured as a monk with the name "Gregory" at the monastery in Strofades, he then studied at Patmiada School. Returning to Smyrna, he was ordained...
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    developed laboratory and field station infrastructures in Zakynthos and the Strofades islets. Freshwater resources on Zakynthos are limited, and as a result...
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  • 1671 and to become a monk in the Nea Moni of Chios and after that in the Strofades Monastery in Zakynthos. In 1677, he went to Venice and became commissioner...
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    Vasilikos, Gaitani and Bochali. The municipal unit also includes the Strofades islands, which lie about 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Zákynthos island...
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    convoy to Gaza who were kidnapped in November 2010 by the owner of M.V. Strofades IV, a ferry chartered to transport them to Al Arish in Egypt. The captain...
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    islands are now called the Turning Islands (Greek: Στροφάδες, romanized: Strofades). In a digression, the poet also explains the origin of the Etesian winds...
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    2011. Eurovoyager 1998–2010 Scrapped in 2012. Roseanne 1999–2003 Became Strofades IV with m.c.c.l.; scrapped 2011 after a kidnapping incident. Oleander...
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  • remained into November 2010. On 11 November 2010, while boarding the M.V. Strofades IV, a ferry chartered to transport the convoy to Al Arish in Egypt, Road...
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    36.9301361; 21.6657250 (Sphacteria) Strofades, 37°15′N 21°00′E / 37.250°N 21.000°E / 37.250; 21.000 (Strofades) Thilia, 38°39′28″N 20°43′59″E / 38...
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    department included the islands of Zante (Zakynthos), Kythira and the Strofades, as well as Dragamesto (modern Astakos) on the Greek mainland. Despite...
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    agreed minor adjustments, part of the EEZ of the small Greek islands of Strofades, Othoni, and Mathraki was traded off for an equal area elsewhere (i.e...
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    flights were canceled, and schools were closed. The offshore islands of Strofades and Rhodes reported gale-force winds during the storm's passage. A private...
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    the Strofades. They and Zakynthos are joined by the submarine Zakynthos–Strofades Ridge. The waters around Zakynthos are the ZB; around the Strofades, the...
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    roasted on a spit over live coals (1500) Venerable monk-martyrs in the Strofades (1530 or 1537) Saint Onuphrius the Wonderworker, of Gareji, Georgia (1733)...
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    the abduction of 22 nuns and raid of valuable items from the island of Strofades off the coast of Zakynthos. Bayezid II made further demands on the Venetian...
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    Zakynthos, and a 15th-century monastery was also damaged on the islands of Strofades. The port of Zakynthos also sustained major damage, and a state of emergency...
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    [Essay on the islands of Zakynthos, of Kythira, of Antikythira and the Strofades, forming the department of Mer-Égée] (in French). Paris: Dessenne. Lacroix...
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    Peninsula and the Ionian Island of Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Ithaka and on the Strofades, It is found in open woods, hedgerows and on the margins of farmland where...
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    islands of Corfu, Paxos, Antipaxos, Ithaki, Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Strofades. Paxodillidium schawalleri has been found in three types of habitat: Olive...
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  • 37°16′N 21°0′E / 37.267°N 21.000°E / 37.267; 21.000 (Greece)  Greece Strofades islands 37°15′N 21°0′E / 37.250°N 21.000°E / 37.250; 21.000 (Mediterranean...
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  • eyewitness accounts from the mainland of flames seen in the direction of the Strofades. Assuming that both observations were of the same phenomenon, it would...
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    Rhodes. The remaining items would be sent to monasteries on the islands of Strofades and Amorgos. Three of these icons have been identified by historians....
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