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  2. Bruce Chatwin - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, Marta Sebregondi read The Songlines and proposed to her employer, the Italian design and publishing firm Modo & Modo, that they produce moleskine notebooks. [204] In 1997, the company began to sell them and use Chatwin's name to promote them. [205] Modo & Modo was sold in 2006, and the company became known as Moleskine SpA. [204]

  3. Moleskine - Wikipedia

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    Moleskine (Italian pronunciation: [moleˈskiːne]) is an Italian manufacturer, papermaker, and product designer. It was founded in 1997 by Maria Sebregondi and is based in Milan , Italy. [ 2 ] It produces and designs luxury notebooks , as well as planners, sketchbooks , leather backpacks , holdalls , journals , wallets , various accessories ...

  4. Mytilene - Wikipedia

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    Mytilene (/ ˌ m ɪ t ɪ ˈ l iː n i /; Greek: Μυτιλήνη, romanized: Mytilíni ⓘ) is the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos, and its port.It is also the capital and administrative center of the North Aegean Region, and hosts the headquarters of the University of the Aegean.

  5. Monemvasia - Wikipedia

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    Monemvasia falls in 11a plant hardiness zone and is the only area in mainland Greece that belongs to 11a zone. [18] On 27 June 2007 Monemvasia registered a staggering 24 hours minimum temperature of 35.9 °C which is the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in mainland Greece. [20] During that night Monemvasia did not drop below 36.3 °C.

  6. Skouries mine - Wikipedia

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    Skouries is a gold-copper porphyry deposit centred on a small, pencil-porphyry stock that intruded schist and gneiss of the Paleozoic Vertiskos Formation of the Serbo-Macedonian Massif in northeastern Greece. The porphyry is characterized by at least four intrusive phases that are of monzonite to syenite composition, but contain an intense ...

  7. Mytilene International Airport - Wikipedia

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    The airport began to operate in 1948 however it was 1980 before the first charter flight landed. [3]In December 2015, the privatisation of Mytilene International Airport and 13 other regional airports of Greece was finalised with the signing of the agreement between the Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture and the state privatisation fund. [4] "

  8. Velestino - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] With the rest of Thessaly, Velestino was ceded to Greece in 1881 by the Convention of Constantinople. The Battle of Velestino was fought here during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Velestino is a village partly populated by people of Aromanian heritage. Reportedly, as of 1911, Velestino was predominantly Aromanian. [10]

  9. Messenia - Wikipedia

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    The famous naval Battle of Navarino took place near present Pylos in 1827, and was a decisive victory for Greece and its allies. During the World War II several battles of the Greek Resistance against the Nazi occupation forces and the collaborationist security battalions took place in Messenia, including Battle of Meligalas , Battle of ...