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The Emley timeline.(Features)
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600/700 ad: First settlers.
1069: William the Conqueror's troops visit Emley and destroy much of the village.
1086: Emley, or Ameleie as it was then known, is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
c.1100: Cistercian monks from North Yorkshire arrive in Emley.
c.1200: ...
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Pylos regional archaeological project, Part VII: historical Messenia, geometric through late Roman.
Magazine article from: Hesperia
; ...explore patterns in regional activity in Messenia, the southwest corner of the Greek Peloponnese...evidence, the campaigns of the Minnesota Messenia Expedition, and--above all--the...historical landscape. ********** Messenia possesses a varied and fertile topography...
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Pylos regional archaeological project, Part VII: historical Messenia, geometric through late Roman.(Historical Background: The PRAP Study Area)
Magazine article from: Hesperia
; ...own course in comparison with more central parts of Messenia. Messenia's entanglements with larger political structures...we should be able to explore the degree to which Messenia, on being liberated and assuming a more "normal...
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Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor and Navarino.(Review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...does on a series of small strips of land in western Messenia. Messenia has, of course, been surveyed before, but surveyed extensively by the Minnesota Messenia Expedition, whose focus was on the Late Bronze Age...
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Olive Roads cross in Uzbekistan.
News Wire article from: UzReport
; ...Georgios Karabatos, the President of the Messenia Department of the Chamber of Industry...organized by the Cultural Foundation and the Messenia Department of the Chamber of Industry...headquarters are located in the capital of Messenia, the city of Kalamata, one of the first...
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Model Citizens?(The Spartans)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...Sparta. A nearby plain was the heart of a region known as Messenia. At some point during the early eighth century b.c. four...to destroy whatever state existed there. The acquisition of Messenia was both a blessing and a curse. According to the traditional...
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Nothing Spartan about it
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...tightening their forehand grips. Out on the waterfront, the windsurfers are setting out across the shallow end of the Gulf of Messenia like a flotilla of fritillaries. On the pontoon, instructors are patiently coaching novice water- skiers, while young yachties...
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DID YOU KNOW?
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal
; ...the Rocky Mountains. It was about 650 miles from north to south and 600 from east to west. His official title was Bishop of Messenia. In 1848, Jesuit fathers had established a mission to serve the Potawatomi Indians in what is now the town of St. Marys...
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Mani happy returns Shusha Guppy never tires of visiting this remote and little-known region of the Peloponnese
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...south to the tip of the peninsula, Cape Matapan. From April to November there are direct flights to Kalamata, capital of Messenia. Otherwise there are connecting flights from Athens twice a week. I preferred to go by bus via Corinth and Sparta, a five...
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Travel - Eastern Mediterranean: Testosterone overload Family; Greece is famed for being child-friendly. But Kristina Ferris's family failed to warm to the teenagers they encountered there
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...half an hour's walk from the nearest village of Petallidi. Perched on the top of a small cliff overlooking the Gulf of Messenia with the Mani peninsula sometimes visible through the haze, Sunrise Village has a huge pool and two secluded beaches a few...
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THE WREATHS SERVE AS RACE'S CROWNING GLORY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...winners of individual competitions. The wreaths were called "kotinos," and the first athlete to receive one was Daikles from Messenia, at the seventh Olympiad in 752 BC. In later years, the olive branches were replaced by palm fronds. The wreaths Panagopoulos...
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