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This list is of the declared archaeological sites of Greece located within the Ionian Islands region, comprising the regional units of Cephalonia, Corfu, Ithaca, Lefkada, and Zakynthos. [ 1 ] Archaeological sites
The islands were mostly a backwater during Ancient Greek times and played little part in Greek politics. The one exception was the conflict between Kerkyra and its mother-city Corinth in 434 BC, which brought intervention from Athens and triggered the Peloponnesian War .
Ionia (/ aɪ ˈ oʊ n i ə / eye-OH-nee-ə) [1] was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. [citation needed] Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who had settled in the region before the archaic ...
Map of Homeric Greece based on the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad (right-click on map to enlarge). The locations mentioned in the narratives of Odysseus's adventures have long been debated. Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca and its neighbours).
It is believed that the Venetian period on the Ionian Islands was generally prosperous, especially compared with the coinciding Tourkokratia — Turkish rule over the remainder of present-day Greece. [1] The governor of the Ionian Islands during the Venetian period was the Provveditore generale da Mar, who resided on Corfu. Additionally, each ...
Map of ancient Greek dialects Ionic Greek was a subdialect of the Attic–Ionic or Eastern dialect group of Ancient Greek . The Ionic group traditionally comprises three dialectal varieties that were spoken in Euboea (West Ionic), the northern Cyclades (Central Ionic), and from c. 1000 BC onward in Asiatic Ionia (East Ionic), where Ionian ...
The rest of Greece was controlled by the government in Athens (State of Athens). Greece was reunited in 1917. Republic of Pontus (1917–1922): Pontian Greek short-lived state. [9] Ionian autonomy (1922): short-lived Greek dependency in the region of Ionia, Asia Minor, during the final stages of the Asia Minor expedition.
Kythira shared a common destiny with the other Ionian islands during the turbulent Napoleonic era, and is still regarded as one of them; it was counted as one of the Cyclades in antiquity. In 1799, the Ionian islands became the Septinsular Republic, nominally under Ottoman suzerainty, but in practice dominated by Imperial Russia.