Benefactorism of Black Sea Greeks in the Greek State |
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Burial customs from the Black Sea |
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The burial customs attested in the necropoleis of the Greek colonies in the Black Sea are a combination of customs found in metropolitan Greece with influences from Asia Minor and the cultures of the local populations. Generally, they are characterized by homogeneity with some local distinctive features. Their chronological and geographical grouping is a difficult task and therefore we cannot form a complete picture. |
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Church organisation in the west Black Sea area (provinces and dioceses) |
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Churches and monasteries of Sozopolis |
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Commercial amphorae in the Black Sea area |
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Commercial posts and harbours |
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During the Greek colonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, settlements of various functions and financial orientation were created. The ancient authors, attempting to define or categorize them, used (and sometimes coined) different terms in the Greek language, like polis, emporion, asty, polichnion, kome, limen, epineion and so forth. Each of these terms can be multivalent. The term emporion denoting a colony or a type of settlement in the Black Sea rarely occurs in the ancient... |
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Danube European Committee |
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The European Danube Commission (Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή Δουνάβεως, Commission Européenne du Danube) was established in 1856, following the decision of the Paris Convention, in order to see to the carrying out of the major works at the mouth of the river (Sulina). Apart from the dredging of the mouth, the commission constructed a large port in the city of Sulina as well as a hospital. After the Second World War the commission was dissolved. |
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The Captain of the Greek female Company of the Amazons, which was formed at the time of the tour of Catherine the Great in southern Russia and the Crimea. |
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Покрштавање Кијевске Русије |
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Постепено покрштавање Руса почело је после њиховог напада на Цариград 860. године, али је познавало и периоде снажног враћања на паганство. Упркос, неким спорадичним покушијима у 10. веку, као што је активност кнегиње Олге, Руси су примили хришћанство из Византије 988. године. Овај догађај од светскоисторијског значаја одиграо се у оквиру сложених односа Византије и Русије и био је праћен доласком руске војне дружине у Цариград, која је помогла Василију II да сачува престо, као и одласком... |
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