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A list of the amazing wonders that man made in the whole Greek country side. Why let Mountains, Lakes and Rives outclass the archaic places of worship and battle?

Category: History

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Created by: KSGRAM

Number of Blossarys: 9

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Daphni or Dafni, is an 11th-century Byzantine monastery 11 km north-west of central Athens in the suburb of Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue. It is situated near the forest of the same name, on the ...

Domain: History; Category: Medieval

Hosios Loukas, is a historic walled monastery situated near the town of Distomo, in Boeotia, Greece. It is one of the most important monuments of Middle Byzantine architecture and art, and has been ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

The town of Corfu stands on the broad part of a peninsula, whose termination in the Venetian citadel is cut off from it by an artificial fosse formed in a natural gully, with a salt-water ditch at ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

The Acropolis of Rhodes is an acropolis dating from the Classical Greek period (5th–3rd century BC) 3 kilometers from the centre of Rhodes, in the island with the same name, Greece. The partially ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

The Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes is a medieval castle in the city of Rhodes, on the island of Rhodes in Greece. It is one of the few examples of Gothic architecture in Greece. ...

Domain: History; Category: Medieval

The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (also called Monastery of Saint John the Divine) is a Greek Orthodox monastery founded in 1088 in Chora on the island of Patmos. UNESCO has declared it a ...

Domain: History; Category: Medieval

The whole island of Delos,near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the island are ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

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