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Moreover, Mediterranean Sea played a key role in that period of time in the growth of every military or commercial activity for all the empires stated in its coastal. Let me just remind you of the Crusades for the deliverance of Holy Land, the fact that Constantinople was believed for the westerns to be an utopian City, covered with gold (a belief which in a great sense lead to the disaster of the 4th crusade) and moreover, the fact that castles of Rhodes, Lindos and Monolithos formed the basis of perhaps the most powerful western Order, those of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem (well-known as Knights Hospitaller), in the most bright shade of its era. And in that period of time, many were the Western visitors interested in one way or another to reach any of the above mentioned places. The castle-kingdom of Corfu is an excellent example of a place where 2 centuries ago castles and fortresses were scattered all around the area but unfortunately today nothing stands in its place to bring the reminisce of the past that¢s long forgotten.ĭespite the fact that in the medieval history of Western civilizations Greece did not exist as a geographical and political state and therefore not being mentioned, it did hold the place of one of the most important provinces of the Byzantine Empire with its geographical position being in the centre of the crossroad that united Jerusalem, Holy Land, Constantinople or Rhodes. There are more than 600 castles scattered in the Greek inland the maintenance of which varies from excellent to worse in certain cases.Įven in those cases that ruins is all that¢s left in place of some Greek medieval fortresses, still they have left their mark and have played an important role in the shape of the history of our country.
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Greece is one of the few countries around the world which can confront England, Scotland, Germany or Spain as for the number of castles it has. This specific question was, as you might have guessed, a bit of a shock for me… “Are there any castles in Greece?” some English co speakers asked me a couple of years ago in the most visited worldwide forum concerning castles, the “castles on the web”. I will be glad to hear any opinions or criticism about what I publish here and of course the book itself. I am creating a new topic in order to gather all the information concerning a castles related book that have been published in Greece in May 2007, devoted on Greek castles, their legends, myths, history and their current situation. Profile | register | preferences | faq | search This volume gives equal weight and attention to the two parts that make up this extraordinary historical document, allowing readers to study the map or the text independently, while also using each to elucidate and accentuate the details of the other.Castles and Legends in Greece - Castle Quest Furthermore, the maps themselves are reproduced in greater detail and vivid color, and there are more cross-references to the text than in any previous edition. The Ottoman Explorations of the Nile provides a more accurate translation of the original travel account.
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Numerous new critical editions of both the map and the text have been published over the years, each expounding upon the last in an attempt to reach a definitive version. The map, held in the Vatican Library, has been studied since at least 1949. 1685-and both by the same man.Įvliya Çelebi’s account of his Nile journeys, in the tenth volume of his Book of Travels ( Seyahatname), has been known to the scholarly world since 1938, when that volume was first published. Both were achieved at about the same time-c. Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a lengthy travel account.