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10 gorgeous Mediterranean islands you've never heard of

Edit CNN 10 Jul 2015
(CNN)Sometimes it feels like the best Mediterranean islands must've started taking this year's summer bookings back in the 1970s. All the best spots are long gone, leaving just overpriced or underwhelming options for last-minute travelers ... These tiny, quiet and remote islands resemble the Med before its popularity went off the charts ... Akvaryum Hotel Bozcaada, Alaybey Mah Mermerburnu Mevkii No.31, Bozcaada, Tenedos Island 17680 Turkey; ... ....

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Konstantinos Koutras’ response to a journalist’s question regarding the holding of a conference in Komotini (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic)

Edit noodls 13 May 2015
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic) ... In contrast with the members of the Greek Orthodox minority of Istanbul, Imbros and Tenedos, who were forced under painful conditions to abandon their hearths, the Muslim minority of Western Thrace not only prospers, but is also represented by three MPs in the Hellenic Parliament, an opportunity denied many FUEN members ... (noodl. 28231149) ....

Letters from Gallipoli

Edit The Irish Times 25 Apr 2015
At dawn on April 25th, 1915, near the ancient city of Troy, a maritime Trojan Horse in the form of a rusting coal ship gently grounded off a sandy beach at the southern tip of the Gallipoli peninsula, in what is now Turkey ... Few would reach ground unscathed ... May 1st, 1915. Dear Mother ... We left Lemnos for Tenedos one day, and from there we got into a collier called the River Clyde, which had been fitted for the purpose of landing ... ... . ... ... ....

Would you be beautiful in the ancient world?

Edit BBC News 10 Jan 2015
In ancient Greece the rules of beauty were all important. Things were good for men who were buff and glossy ... For the Greeks a beautiful body was considered direct evidence of a beautiful mind ... Continue reading the main story Find out more ... Beauty contests - kallisteia - were a regular fixture in the training grounds of the Olympics at Elis and on the islands of Tenedos and Lesbos, where women were judged as they walked to and fro ... ....

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Venizelos’ statements to journalists following his meeting with the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Istanbul, 29 November 2014) Date: Saturday, 29 November 2014 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic)

Edit noodls 30 Nov 2014
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic) ... E. VENIZELOS. The meeting with President Erdogan was carried out in a very good climate, following the very substantial talks we had with my counterpart, Foreign Minister Cavusoglu, in Ankara ... JOURNALIST. Mr ... E. VENIZELOS ... E ... E ... E ... The presence of the Greek community in Istanbul, in Imbros, in Tenedos, is something much more than a community that exists and sees its numbers falling....

The Conquest of Constantinople, Hagia Sofia and Turkey -- EU

Edit Huffington Post 25 Jun 2014
... a half million, outright slaughter, death marches, death labor camps), to the pogrom and expulsion in the 1950s and 1960s of about 270,000 Greeks who had remained in Constantinople and the islands of Imbros and Tenedos in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, to the invasion of Cyprus in 1974, and the ongoing occupation of North Cyprus....
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