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3 days ago · Thomas Palaiologos, younger brother of Constantine XI and Despot of the Morea 1428–1460. In the aftermath of Constantinople's fall, one of the most pressing threats to the new Ottoman regime was the possibility that one of Constantine XI's relatives would secure support and return to reclaim the empire.
- 11th century, 1259 (as imperial family)
Apr 27, 2024 · Lemnos joined the Greek kingdom after the Balkan Wars (1912–13). From Moúdros Bay in 1915 the Allies launched their unsuccessful invasion of the Dardanelles; in the same bay, the Allied armistice with Turkey was concluded in 1918. In Classical times Lemnian earth ( Lemnia sphragis) was used as an astringent for snakebites and wounds and in ...
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Apr 26, 2024 · The Odyssey on the Island of Lemnos. In their adventures they reached the island of Lemnos, inhabited exclusively by women after the local women had murdered their husbands. There, some of the Argonauts stayed and started families. The Test of the Talos. In Crete, our heroes faced Talos, a bronze giant created by Hephaestus.
May 7, 2024 · On the island of Lemnos, Hephaestus' consort was the sea nymph Cabeiro, by whom he was the father of two metalworking gods named the Cabeiri. In Sicily, his consort was the nymph Aetna, and his sons were two gods of Sicilian geysers called Palici. With Thalia, Hephaestus was sometimes considered the father of the Palici.
4 days ago · Thomas the Apostle ( Greek: Θωμᾶς; Syriac ܬܐܘܡܐ, Tʾōmā, meaning "the twin"), [a] also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος Didymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he initially doubted the resurrection of Jesus Christ ...
Apr 23, 2024 · On the evening of April 24, 1915, 200 ships sailed from Lemnos’s Mudros Harbour 100km across the sea for the dawn landings in Gallipoli. Over the next eight bloody months, 50,000 Anzacs - Australian and New Zealand servicemen - took off from Lemnos for the frontline battles at Gallipoli. Lemnos was also where those who survived the ...
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Apr 18, 2024 · With blue eyes and auburn hair, James was a master mariner who had been born in Stromness on the Island of Orkney, north of the Scottish mainland. He had enlisted at Melbourne in May 1915 and ...
