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Bilingual (Greek - English) edition. Hard cover, 25x34 cm, 540 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-960-8460-17-1.This publication provides for the first time an overall review of the hitherto unknown history of these islands, while a record of the last two centuries is given by means of the rich photographic material. The Princess islands lie scattered between Europe and Asia on the north-eastern side of the Propontis, indissolubly bound up by the ancient Greeks with the myth of the expedition of the Argonauts. The Princess islands were to acquire great significance and importance in the time of the Byzantine Empire. But even after the Fall of Constantinople, the conquerors respected and tolerated the religion, the language, the manners and customs of the Greeks, so that throughout the Ottoman rule of Greek lands, these islands provided a shelter for Greek refugees. During the first decade of the nineteenth century, Phanariot Greeks and members of the Philiki Etaireia were made welcome in the monasteries and their… Read More
