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Ikariam is a browser-based massively multiplayer online game of the strategy genre produced and maintained by German-based Gameforge AG.The game is set in the era of classical Greece in an archipelago, with players being made ruler of a small town, which they must expand and lead. [1]
Icaria, also spelled Ikaria (Greek: Ικαρία, ), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. Administratively, Icaria forms a separate municipality within the Ikaria regional unit , which is part of the North Aegean region .
Étienne Cabet (French: [etjɛn kabɛ]; January 1, 1788 – November 9, 1856) was a French philosopher and utopian socialist who founded the Icarian movement. [1] Cabet became the most popular socialist advocate of his day, with a special appeal to artisans who were being undercut by factories.
Icaria or Ikaria (Ancient Greek: Ἰκαρία), also known as Icarium or Ikarion (Ἰκάριον), was a deme of ancient Attica on the northeastern slopes of Mount Pentelikon. It holds pride of place due to its prominence in Greek mythology as the place where Icarius , or Ikarios (Ικάριος) received the god Dionysus , who taught him the ...
Icaria is a Greek island. Icaria or Ikaria may also refer to: Icarians, a utopian movement; SS Ikaria, a steamship; Icaria, a genus of wasp; Ikaria wariootia, a species of early bilaterian animal. Icaria, a Russian fantastic drama film; Icaria Planum, a region of Mars; Icaria Fossae, a system of fractures on Mars
Horace makes a reference to Icarian waves in Liber I, Carmen I, line 15 ("Ad Maecenatem"); [2] the first stanza of his Ode 4.2 also alludes to the Icarian Sea. [3]Strabo states that it connects with the Carpathian Sea on the south, and on the West with the Cretan Sea.
Finally, he fell into the sea, sank to the bottom, and drowned. Daedalus wept for his son and called the nearest land Icaria (an island southwest of Samos) in the memory of him. Today, the supposed site of his burial on the island bears his name, and the sea near Icaria in which he drowned is called the Icarian Sea.