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    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...
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    Lesbos Prefecture (Greek: Νομός Λέσβου) was one of the prefectures of Greece. It comprised three main islands: Lesbos itself, Lemnos, and the smaller...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene of Lesbos (Greek: Ραφαήλ, Νικόλαος και Ειρήνη) are venerated as saints and neomartyrs in the Eastern Orthodox Church. According...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    2022. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Petrified forest of Lesbos. The Lesbos Petrified Forest - European and Global Geopark The Natural History...
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    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...
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    Aeroroutes. Retrieved 3 August 2023. "Rejser til Lesbos". 1 May 2024. "Braathens Billund - Lesbos". 1 May 2024. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240327-tfns24chr...
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    Mantamados (category Populated places in Lesbos)
    on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality of West Lesbos, of which it is a...
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    Lesbian (redirect from Lesbo)
    times after twice mentioning the island of Lesbos, and so could be construed to mean 'from the island of Lesbos'. In 1875, George Saintsbury, in writing...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Theoktiste of Lesbos (Greek: Θεοκτίστη τῆς Λέσβου) is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. According to her hagiography, she...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • "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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Lesbos in Love is a Chilean musical duo formed in Santiago by Jazmin Avendaño and Tonko Yutronic. Lesbos in Love formed in 2000 in Santiago, Chile as a...
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    Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos (765/66–844) was a monk who survived two attempts on his life during the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm (814–842)...
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    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...
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