The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire occupies a special place in the collective consciousness of the West, at once a dark star on
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Greece and the Greek Islands
Syracuse: Sicily’s Ancient Greek City
On Sicily’s south eastern shore sits Syracuse , nowadays a grand baroque styled city, but in ancient times one of the greatest powers and, for the Greeks , the most important city outside Greece itself .
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Turkish forts of Crete
The Ottoman Turks occupied the Greek island of Crete for almost 300 years after overthrowing the Venetians in the 17th century .
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Byzantine Crete
The Greek island of Crete has seen many invasions in its long history – from Arabs, Venetians , Turks and more recently by Germany in the 2nd world war.
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Sicily Stories
On Sicily’s south eastern shore sits Syracuse , nowadays a grand baroque styled city, but in ancient times one of the greatest powers and, for the Greeks , the most important city outside Greece itself .
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