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<p>From the fortress on a nearly cloudless summer day, there is almost nothing but blue</p>

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Pylos has been inhabited since Neolithic times. It was a significant kingdom in Mycenaean Greece, with the remains of the so-called "Palace of Nestor" excavated nearby, named after Nestor, the king of Pylos in Homer's Iliad. During the Peloponnesian War, the Bay of Pylos was the site of the Battle of Sphacteria in 425 BC.<br />
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In the Middle Ages, during the time of the Crusades, Pylos fell to the Principality of Achaia, founded in 1205. In the 1280s the Franks built the Old Navarino castle. Pylos came under the control of the Republic of Venice from 1417 until 1500, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.<br />
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The Ottomans used Pylos and its bay as a naval base, and built the New Navarino / Niokastro fortress there. The area remained under Ottoman control, with the exception of a brief period of renewed Venetian rule from 1685–1715 and a Russian occupation from 1770–71, until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.<br />
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The Niokastro covers an area of approximately 70,000 square meters (about 7 hectares). The fortress is strategically located on a hill at the southern entrance to Pylos Bay. There is a lower-lying, sprawling lower castle and a heavily fortified, hexagonal upper castle at the highest point of the complex. <br />
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The Archaeological Museum of Pylos is housed in the "Maizonos building" located in the archaeological site of Niokastro Fortress.<br />
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Skyphos / drinking vessel<br />
Multi coloured mosaic vase<br />
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grave gift<br />
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Glass, 3rd c BC - 1st c AD<br />
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Delicate Glass<br />
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<p>Sarti -- Σάρτη</p>

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<p>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens</a><br />
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Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres (15.04 square miles).<br />
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Athens is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. According to Greek mythology, the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, but modern scholars generally agree that the goddess took her name after the city. Classical Athens was one of the most powerful city-states in ancient Greece. It was a centre for Hellenistic democracy, the arts, education and philosophy, and was highly influential throughout the European continent, particularly in Ancient Rome. For this reason it is often regarded as the cradle of Western civilisation and the birthplace of democracy in its own right independently from the rest of Greece.<br />
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In modern times Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. It is a Beta (+) – status global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and is one of the biggest economic centres in Southeast Europe. It also has a large financial sector, and its port Piraeus is both the second-busiest passenger port in Europe and the thirteenth-largest container port in the world. The Athens metropolitan area extends beyond its administrative municipal city limits as well as its urban agglomeration, with a population of 3,638,281 in 2021 over an area of 2,928.717 km2 (1,131 sq mi).<br />
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The heritage of the Classical Era is still evident in the city, represented by ancient monuments, and works of art, the most famous of these being the Parthenon, considered a key landmark of early Western culture. Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history. Athens contains two World Heritage Sites recognised by UNESCO: the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery. Athens is home to several museums and cultural institutions, such as the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Benaki Museum and the Byzantine and Christian Museum. Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics, making it one of five cities to have hosted the Summer Olympics on more than one occasion.<br />
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Additional Foreign Language Tags:<br />
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(Greece) "اليونان" "希腊" "Grèce" "Griechenland" "יוון" "ग्रीस" "ギリシャ" "그리스" "Греция" "Grecia" "Hellenic Republic" "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία"<br />
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(Athens) "أثينا" "雅典" "Athènes" "Athen" "אתונה" "एथेंस" "アテネ" "아테네" "Афины" "Atenas"<br />
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(Europe) Europa "European Union" "أوروبا" "欧洲" "אירופה" "यूरोप" "ヨーロッパ" "유럽" "Европа"</p>

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<p>Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH / LGAV), Greece.</p>

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<p>Vouraikos Gorge / Kalavryta, Greece.</p>

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<p><strong>Spinalonga</strong> is a small island just off the coast of <strong>Crete</strong>, near the city of <strong>Agios Nikolaos</strong>, and a popular day trip destination. It used to be a Venetian fortress, then a refuge for Muslims fleeing Greek unification, before becoming a <strong>leper colony</strong>, one of the last in Europe. The island was abandoned in 1962, then restored as a tourist attraction in 2005.</p>

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