Free video about Beautiful Zakynthos Island. This free video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as the original author of this Beautiful Zakynthos Island video. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !! Beautiful Zakynthos Island, whom Homer mentions as Yliessa ie wooded, named after its first inhabitant of the island of Beautiful Zakynthos Island son of the King of Phrygia Dardanus. Then conquered the Arkeisios descendant of the King of Kefalonia Mullet, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus. So Beautiful Zakynthos Island received the Kingdom of Ulysses who participated with twelve ships to the Trojan war. Upon his return, however, and the murder of the suitors of whom twenty were from Zante, Beautiful Zakynthos Island is revolted and won their island of the Kingdom of Ulysses. In the years following the zeitgeist established in Beautiful Zakynthos Island new constitution, the Republic. Perhaps at that time the islanders to established namesake colony on the Iberian peninsula. During the Persian wars Beautiful Zakynthos Island remained neutral while involved in the Peloponnesian war as an ally of the Athenians. The island was conquered by the Macedonians of Alexander the Great and later by the Romans, who had been granted relative autonomy. According to local tradition, Christianity spread to the island of Mary Magdalene in 34 AD when the ship that carried her to Rome stopped briefly in Beautiful Zakynthos Island. During Byzantine times plundered by pirates and Vandals. In 1185 Beautiful Zakynthos Island with Kefalonia occupied by the Normans of Sicily (Admiral Margaritonis King of Sicily William II) who detaching them from the Byzantine Empire, the County Palatine of Cephalonia and Beautiful Zakynthos Island under the leadership of Earl Palatine Orsini 1197 - 1325, Angevins (d 'Anjou) 1325 - 1357 and Tocchi 1357-1479. Then the Venetians conquered and remains under Venetian rule until 1797. Notable event of this period was the uprising (which was just opposite in nature recalcitrant actors chores and not poor, but rich merchants) known by the name of Rempelio popolari. After the Treaty of Campo Formio followed by Gallokratia the Ionian Islands (1797 - 1799), where the French republicans initially and then the Alliance Russo-Turkish Treaty (1799) the Russians with their allies the Turks occupied the island temporarily until established by the Convention of Constantinople (1800) the Seven Islands (1800) which involved the Beautiful Zakynthos Island with the other Ionian islands thus forming the first autonomous Greek state under the suzerainty of the Sultan's shadow, with substantial governor Beautiful Zakynthos Island Earl George Motsenigos, scion of a prominent family island and diplomat in the service of Russia. In 1807 the French Emperor returned this time and in 1815 created the United State of the Ionian Islands came under the protection of the British (in fact colonialism) until 1864. The dream of Beautiful Zakynthos Island to unite with Greece took place after hard fights on May 21, 1864, after a total of 680 years of foreign occupation. In Beautiful Zakynthos Island there are the following villages in alphabetical order: Agalas, Agia Marina, Agios Dimitrios, Agios Kyrikos, Saint Leo, Agios Nikolaos (Koiliomenos), All Saints, Akrotiri, Alikanas, Ambelokipi, Anafonitria, Upper Gerakari, Argassi, Vanato, Royal, Upper Volimes, Volimes, Lower Volimes Vougiato, Gaitani, Galaro, Giri, Exo-country Beautiful Zakynthos Island, Kalamaki, Kalipado, Kallithea, Katastari, Lower Falla, Zante, caterpillars. Also in Beautiful Zakynthos Island booming a special, perhaps idiosyncratic, theatrical genre countryside, called "lectures" in which the inhabitants starring improvisations as parlates. The history of these exceeding three centuries. Since 2009 Beautiful Zakynthos Island has its own jazz festival (Festival Jazz Beautiful Zakynthos Island / Zante Jazz Festival) and classical music festivals. The Municipality of Beautiful Zakynthos Island gives municipal quarterly magazine media, culture, communication entitled "township + STATE". Giostra Di Zante is one of the oldest events of the Carnival on Beautiful Zakynthos Island. Along with the dances, which were conducted mainly in the luxurious rooms of the two casinos (Romianiko and Lompardiano) and the well known and popular "Speeches" (street theater), which are represented by the people in open spaces, were (and are) the main expressions the carnival fun of the famous Ionian Islands. The port of Beautiful Zakynthos Island is large and is divided into two parts: one commercial and one cargo. From the port of Beautiful Zakynthos Island ferries that connect with Kyllini. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !!

• published: 04 Feb 2014
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