Iliad, Lesbos was part of the kingdom of Priam, which was based in Anatolia. In the Middle Ages, it was under Byzantine and then Genoese rule. Lesbos was...
60 KB (5,966 words) - 21:56, 9 August 2024
Lesbos Prefecture (Greek: Νομός Λέσβου) was one of the prefectures of Greece. It comprised three main islands: Lesbos itself, Lemnos, and the smaller...
6 KB (179 words) - 12:20, 23 February 2022
Mytilene (redirect from Lesbos refugee camps)
is one of the two municipalities on the island of Lesbos, created in 2019; the other is West Lesbos. Mytilene is built on the southeast edge of the island...
42 KB (3,741 words) - 01:12, 25 August 2024
Sirens Of Lesbos is a four piece band and music label based in Switzerland. Sirens Of Lesbos was formed in 2014 by Melvyn Buss and Arci Friede who collaborated...
5 KB (334 words) - 19:55, 17 May 2024
finishing production on Vampyros Lesbos, Franco began working on his next film She Killed in Ecstasy (1971). Vampyros Lesbos was released in July 15, 1971...
20 KB (1,888 words) - 20:27, 17 July 2024
pp. 477-79. José J. Caerols, Helanico de Lesbos (1991), fragment 84. José J. Caerols, Helanico de Lesbos (1991), fragment 4. Fragments in Karl Wilhelm...
8 KB (971 words) - 09:27, 29 April 2024
Sappho (redirect from Sappho of Lesbos)
poetry from Lesbos, which had evolved its own poetic diction, metres, and conventions. Prior to Sappho and her contemporary Alcaeus, Lesbos was associated...
82 KB (10,026 words) - 14:10, 30 July 2024
Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene of Lesbos (Greek: Ραφαήλ, Νικόλαος και Ειρήνη) are venerated as saints and neomartyrs in the Eastern Orthodox Church. According...
3 KB (254 words) - 07:12, 13 May 2024
city on Lesbos known as Hiera. Scholars argue that the name is derived from the Greek goddess Hera, and there is evidence that the island of Lesbos followed...
4 KB (410 words) - 14:47, 26 March 2024
Theophrastus (redirect from Theophrastus of Lesbos)
moved to Mytilene on Lesbos in 345/4, it is very likely that he did so at the urging of Theophrastus. It seems that it was on Lesbos that Aristotle and...
56 KB (6,559 words) - 00:44, 6 August 2024
Messon (Ancient Greek: Μέσσον) was a town of ancient Lesbos, containing a noted temple. The archaeological site is open to the public. The site of Messon...
1 KB (122 words) - 14:46, 13 August 2021
Lesvos Petrified Forest (redirect from Petrified Forest of Lesbos)
2022. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Petrified forest of Lesbos. The Lesbos Petrified Forest - European and Global Geopark The Natural History...
6 KB (578 words) - 18:34, 31 May 2024
a non-governmental organization to help refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos. Along with human rights activist Seán Binder, she was arrested in 2018...
20 KB (2,194 words) - 07:59, 2 August 2024
Mytilene International Airport (redirect from Lesbos Airport)
Aeroroutes. Retrieved 3 August 2023. "Rejser til Lesbos". 1 May 2024. "Braathens Billund - Lesbos". 1 May 2024. "BRA NS24 Charter Program with Apollo...
15 KB (626 words) - 12:17, 21 August 2024
West Lesbos (Greek: Δυτική Λέσβος, romanized: Dytiki Lesvos), sometimes also referred to as West Lesvos, is a municipality on the island of Lesbos in the...
4 KB (261 words) - 16:09, 8 May 2024
Methymna, a city at Lesbos). Among Macareus' other daughters were Mytilene, Agamede, Antissa, Arisbe and Issa all eponyms of cities at Lesbos. His sons were...
8 KB (1,008 words) - 19:15, 4 June 2024
Lesbos wine is wine made on the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea. The island has a long history of winemaking dating back to at least the 7th century...
4 KB (551 words) - 17:35, 24 April 2022
Theoktiste of Lesbos (Greek: Θεοκτίστη τῆς Λέσβου) is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. According to her hagiography, she...
3 KB (399 words) - 07:31, 30 June 2024
Eresos (redirect from Eresus (Lesbos))
and the other cities of Lesbos. In the first half of the 2nd century BCE, Eresos also drew closer to the other cities of Lesbos under the aegis of the...
18 KB (2,643 words) - 15:09, 24 April 2024
This is a list of settlements in the island of Lesbos in Greece: Afalonas Agia Marina Agia Paraskevi Agiasos Agra Akrasi Alyfanta Ampeliko Anemotia Antissa...
2 KB (101 words) - 01:10, 11 April 2022
Niccolò Gattilusio (redirect from Niccolo of lesbos)
Niccolò Gattilusio (died 1462) was the sixth and last Gattilusio lord of Lesbos, from 1458 to 1462. He was a younger son of Dorino I Gattilusio and Orietta...
4 KB (388 words) - 05:52, 19 August 2024
island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform, it is a municipal unit of the municipality of West Lesbos. Petra is in...
3 KB (210 words) - 19:53, 23 July 2024
Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Until the Kallikratis reform, the region consisted of the three prefectures of Samos, Chios and Lesbos. Since 1 January 2011...
6 KB (377 words) - 09:53, 2 January 2024
"to look out", "observe", from epi "over" and ops "eye"), was a king of Lesbos (the large island in the Aegean Sea opposite the coast of Asia Minor) who...
2 KB (185 words) - 14:11, 26 February 2024
Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos (765/766–844) was a monk who survived two attempts on his life during the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm (814–842)...
12 KB (1,771 words) - 05:11, 17 August 2024
village in the Methana peninsula Megalochori, Lesbos, a village in the municipal unit Plomari, Lesbos Megalochori, Santorini, a village in the island...
594 bytes (97 words) - 22:22, 13 March 2013
municipal unit of Plomari, Lesbos Island, Greece. It is located just two kilometers outside the town of Plomari, South Lesbos. It has a pebbled beach which...
807 bytes (92 words) - 09:42, 10 February 2020
Gattilusio (redirect from Prince of Lesbos)
the exception of Lesbos, which they were permitted to retain in return for an annual payment of 4,000 gold pieces. The lord of Lesbos, Domenico Gattilusio...
6 KB (661 words) - 15:32, 29 April 2024
Pittacus of Mytilene (redirect from Pittacus of Lesbos)
Pittacus spoke: "He didn't know to distinguish the words correctly, being from Lesbos, and having been raised with a barbarian dialect." He flourished around...
5 KB (687 words) - 09:08, 13 April 2024