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Lāwāgetās of wánax Enkhelyawon of Pylos in 1300 BC.

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    Jan 13

    A website uploaded to keep gathered own pictures and maps that created and released in this account:

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    May 9

    Extraordinarily fresh-looking 3rd century glass goblet with enamelled painting illustrating the myth of Greek hero Achilles’ amorous adventures on the island of Skyros. Unearthed 1991 in excavation on Richard Wagner Strasse, Cologne (Romisch-Germanisches Museum)

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    Official reconstitution of Ramesses II at his old age by Winifred Mabel Brunton

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    Fred Boissonas photographing, Parthenon, Athens 1900’s

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    On May 11, 330, Constantine official inaugurated Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire.

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    After the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, refugees from the Philadelphia region in Asia Minor settled in the outskirts of Athens 1923-1928. Since 1928, this town became a suburb of Athens with the name New Philadelphia.

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    Philadelphia & other places in Asia Minor that prolonged their resistance to the Turkish advent, preserved their isolated Anatolian Greek dialects until C20th. Map of the Greek dialects of Asia Minor (Greek Orthodox communities speaking other dialects or Turkish not included)

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    Philadelphia preserved its freedom until 1392, the city surrendered during the 1390-3 campaign by Bayezid. A Byzantine army with John VII & Manuel II Palaiologos’ accompanied the Ottoman army. The city was promised by MP in return for ottoman aid in the 1378 Byzantine civil war.

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    Philadelphia city-state independence illustrated in the Catalan atlas, ca. 1365, with its own flag: Saint George cross plus blue-white stripes. Others: Constantinople/Byzantine flag w/ golden cross on red background, Genoa flag SG cross and Karaman flag with David star & stripes

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    After the Byzantine border collapsed in Anatolia, after 1300, the city of Philadelphia managed to survive for decades surrounded by the Turkish beylics of Aydin, Germigan & Mendeshe. Successfully, defending its independence & maintaining contact with the Genoese coastal cities.

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    May 9

    My map shows places in Europe with over 1,000 inhabitants (Cyprus & Iceland not included)

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    May 9

    Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian & other early Indian coins in Britain — post with a revised map by me :)

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  13. May 9

    Interventions of European Powers to rescue Ottoman Empire from collapse: -1833: 🇷🇺 -1839: 🇬🇧🇦🇹 -1854: 🇬🇧🇫🇷 -1878: 🇬🇧 -1880’s-1918: 🇩🇪 (partnership & alliance)

    The Battle of Konya was fought on December 21, 1832, between Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, 15k Egyptians defeated 50k Ottomans. The Egyptians remained in possession of the field, the Ottoman army was scatter…
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  14. May 9

    King George I of Greece on 25 March 1912, a few days before his assassination in Thessaloniki.

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  15. May 9

    Saint Theodoros Stratelates & Saint Theodoros Teron (Down) Family crests of Manolis Sofianos, Konstantis Papadopoulos and Georgios Koumanis, Ionian islands, 1640. Byzantine museum of Athens

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    May 8

    A French postcard with the tallest, shortest, and fattest men of Europe playing a game of cards, circa 1913.

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  17. May 8

    The alliance with the Germans provided great results for the Ottomans, particularly in the modernization of their army. Germans advisors also contributed to the measures against OA minorities, economic embargo against Greeks & Armenians and forced transfer of their populations.

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  18. May 8

    After the Treaty of Berlin when British saved the Ottomans but also taking parts from their Empire, for themselves Cyprus or for Greece to balance the size of Balkan countries, the Ottomans turned exclusively towards the friendship of the German Empire for 40 years (1878-1918).

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  19. May 8

    In the war of 1877-8, Russia adopted Bulgaria & Slavic nations of the Balkans suppressed by the Ottomans and made a coalition invading OA. British intervention offered a truce to the Ottomans & reversed territorial losses, while Russians stopped in the outskirts of Constantinople

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  20. May 8

    At the same time the British and French fleets blocked the main Greek port at Piraeus from April 1854 to February 1857, and effectively neutralized the Greek army. The Greek revolts in Thessaly, Epirus, Crete were suppressed without any gains.

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  21. May 8

    During the Crimean War 1853-1856, fearing an Ottoman collapse from the Russian attack, France and Britain rushed forces to Gallipoli and counter-attacked Russia's main naval base in the Black Sea at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula.

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