Sicily’s Majestic Greek Temples
Before the Romans conquered Sicily it was an island colonised by the Ancient Greeks. Many reminders of Sicily’s Greek past which lasted for several centuries, can still be seen today.
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Monday, December 15, 2025
Greece
Great Artists – El Greco
El Greco is one of the most distinctive Spanish old masters from the Renaissance period. His real name was Domenikos Theotocopoulos but he became known in his adopted country, Spain, as El Greco, or The Greek.
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The Story of — The Olive
The olive’s fruit, also called an “olive”, is of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil; it is one of the core ingredients in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines.
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The Persian Empire
Otherwise known as the Achaemenid Empire, the First Persian Empire was founded by ruler Cyrus the Great in the 6th Century BC. The Empire gradually expanded into the largest empire the world had seen at the time, controlling regions as far as the Indus River to the East and the Balkans and Macedonia to the west.
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