A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

Around this time, to avoid any scandals Tiberius divorced Julia and left Rome to live on the Greek island of Rhodes.

He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont.

After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

Atlantis ( in Greek,, " island of Atlas ") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC.

Atlas's twin Gadeirus, or Eumelus in Greek, was given the extremity of the island towards the pillars of Hercules.

Hellanicus ' work appears to have been a genealogical one concerning the daughters of Atlas ( Ἀτλαντὶς in Greek means " of Atlas "), but some authors have suggested a possible connection with Plato's island.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

The fact that the Aeginetan standard of weights and measures ( developed in the mid-7th century ) was one of the two standards in general use in the Greek world ( the other being the Euboic-Attic ) is sufficient evidence of the early commercial importance of the island.

Resumed Ottomans rule in Aegina and the Morea was confirmed in the Treaty of Passarowitz, and they retained control of the island with the exception of a short-lived Russian occupation, until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.

Other neighbouring territories include Syria and Lebanon to the east ( 105 km and, respectively ), Israel to the southeast, Egypt to the south, and Greece to the west-northwest: to the small Dodecanesian island of Kastellórizo ( Meyísti ), to Rhodes, and to the Greek mainland.

Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cyprus ( then 77 % Greek Cypriots, 18 % Turkish Cypriots, 5 % other nationalities, including Armenians and Maronites ) were dispersed over the entire island.

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 de facto partitioned the island into two political areas: 99. 5 % of Greek Cypriots now live in the Republic of Cyprus, while 98. 7 % of Turkish Cypriots live in Northern Cyprus ( of other nationalities, 99. 2 % live in the Greek Cypriot area in the south ).

Cyprus has been divided, de facto, into the Greek Cypriot controlled southern two-thirds of the island and the Turkish-occupied northern third.

Turkey, which does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, and the Turkish Cypriot administration of the northern part of the island, do not accept the Republic's rule over the whole island and refer to it not by its international name, but as the " Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus ".

The results of early negotiations between the Greek and Turkish politicians resulted in a broad agreement in principle to reunification as a bicameral, bi-zonal federation with territory allocated to the Greek and Turkish communities within a united island.

Crete ( ; ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.

The island has a per capita income much higher than the Greek average, while unemployment is at approximately 4 %, ½ of that of the country overall.

The Cyclades (;, ) is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece ; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.

In the event, Hamidiye slipped through the Greek patrols on the night of 14 – 15 January and bombarded the harbor of the Greek island of Syros, sinking the Greek auxiliary cruiser Makedonia which lay in anchor there ( it was later raised and repaired ).

An early Greek thinker known to have considered rebirth is Pherecydes of Syros ( fl.

The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is Pherecydes of Syros ; but Pythagoras, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent.

Some Greek gruyères come from San Michálē ( Σαν Μιχάλη, " St. Michael's ") from the island of Syros in the Cyclades, and various graviéras from Crete.

The second element is associated with Mount Nysa, the birthplace of the god in Greek mythology, where he was nursed by nymphs ( the Nysiads ), but according to Pherecydes of Syros, was an archaic word for " tree.

Malvasia Bianca is grown widely throughout the world in places like Italy, the San Joaquin Valley of California, the Greek Islands of Paros and Syros, the Canary Islands, Rioja and Navarra.

In 1874 and again in 1875, he presided over the Reunion Conferences held at Bonn and attended by leading ecclesiastics from the British Isles and from the Oriental non-Roman Churches, among whom were Bishop Christopher Wordsworth of Lincoln ; Bishop Harold Browne of Ely ; Lord Plunket, archbishop of Dublin ; Lycurgus, Greek Orthodox archbishop of Syros and Tenos ; Canon Liddon ; and the Russian Orthodox Professor Ossmnine of St. Petersburg.

Apart from being linked with this, Pythagoras is also closely linked with Pherecydes of Syros, the man ancient commentators tend to credit as the first Greek to teach a transmigration of souls.

In the event, Hamidiye slipped through the Greek patrols on the night of 14 – 15 January and bombarded the harbor of the Greek island of Syros, sinking the Greek auxiliary cruiser Makedonia which lay in anchor there ( it was later raised and repaired ).

The action unfolds as the Greek War of Independence enters Smyrna, Chios, Syros and the Cyclades.

Indeed, the cruiser Hamidiye evaded the Greek lookout ships on the night of 13 / 14 January 1913, and sunk a Greek transport ship at Syros the next day, also bombarding the island's harbour.

Perhaps the first attempt to construct mythology was the book of Pherecydes of Syros, written in Greek Southern Italy in the 6th century BC.

Located on the Greek island of Syros and in Dawson City, Canada, false subway entrances are part of a the Metro-Net World Connection series ( 1993 – 7 ) Kippenberger built as private commissions ; a sizable length of subway grating, complete with the sounds of trains and gusts of wind, was exhibited posthumously at the Venice Biennale.

Thomas K. Papathomas ( 1872-1936 ), a poet from Kastoria himself, published Christopoulos's " Complete Works " (" Χριστοποὐλου Ἀπαντα " in Greek ) in 1931-1932 in Thessaloniki ( Spyros Syros Press ).

On a number of Greek islands, Catholics are still referred to as Φράγκοι ( Frangoi ) or ' Franks ', for instance on Syros, where they are called Φραγκοσυριανός ( Frangosyrianos ).

Alaksandu could be Paris-Alexander of Ilion ", whose name is Greek.

Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.

The Greek name for amber was ( elektron ), " formed by the sun ", and it was connected to the sun god ( Helios ), one of whose titles was Elector or the Awakener.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

Aeschylus (, Aiskhulos ; c. 525 / 524 BC – c. 456 / 455 BC ) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

The Delian League, founded about 477 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 to 173, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

In a vision in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abbadon is shown as the king of an army of locusts ; his name is first transcribed in Greek as " whose name in Hebrew Abaddon " ( Ἀβαδδὼν ), and then translated as, " which in Greek means the Destroyer " ( Apollyon, Ἀπολλύων ).

The ancient Greek township of that name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient Thrace in the Chersonese.

The centre of this cult was in uten-ha / Sa-ka / Cynopolis, a place whose Greek name simply means " city of dogs ".

But when he came upon the Bosporus he understood: on the opposite eastern shore was a Greek city, Chalcedon, whose founders were said to have overlooked the superior location only away.

He says: " The Greek of the Apocalypse is not that of a beginner whose grammar and vocabulary might improve and mature into those of the evangelist.

In addition to many of the Greek Cypriot refugees ( a third of the population ), many Turkish Cypriots ( on whose pretext Turkey invaded ) also moved to the UK and other countries where for the past 30 years they have lived as neighbours with the Greek Cypriots.

Cryptozoology ( from Greek κρυπτός, kryptos, " hidden " + zoology ; literally, " study of hidden animals ") refers to the search for animals whose existence has not been proven.

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

The word cactus derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ( kaktos ), a name originally used for a spiny plant whose identity is not certain.

In Anglo-Saxon England, as prescribed in Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England ( also called Læceboc ) ( many of whose recipes were borrowed from Greek medicinal texts ), dill was used in many traditional medicines, including medicines against jaundice, headache, boils, lack of appetite, stomach problems, nausea, liver problems, and much more.

Her Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia.