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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A chain of islands of western Greece in the Ionian Sea. Colonized by the ancient Greeks, the islands subsequently came under the rule of Rome, Byzantium, Venice, France, Russia, and Great Britain before being ceded to Greece in 1864.
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- proper noun A group of
islands in theIonian Sea - one of the 13peripheries ofGreece The main islands areCorfu ,Ithaca , Kefallonia,Kythira ,Lefkada , Paxoi and Zante.
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Examples
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I was in the Ionian Islands when I read Paul Krugman's column about how we're engaging "in human sacrifices to appease the anger of invisible gods" -- allowing the obsession with deficit reduction to trump job creation.
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2010
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I was in the Ionian Islands when I read Paul Krugman's column about how we're engaging "in human sacrifices to appease the anger of invisible gods" -- allowing the obsession with deficit reduction to trump job creation.
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A guide along the Danube: From Vienna to Constantinople, Smyrna, Athens, the Morea, the Ionian Islands, and Venice: from the notes of a journey made in the year 1836 by R.
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Mr. Gladstone learned, in 1858, that the peoples of the Ionian Islands, then administered by a British protectorate,were agitating for liberty and reunion with the Greek nation.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Mr. Gladstone learned, in 1858, that the peoples of the Ionian Islands, then administered by a British protectorate,were agitating for liberty and reunion with the Greek nation.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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But all that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and I was glad enough to embark on a Genoese polacca which was loading for the Ionian Islands with gunpowder and munitions for Ali de Tebelen.
A Start in Life 2007
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Mr. Gladstone learned, in 1858, that the peoples of the Ionian Islands, then administered by a British protectorate,were agitating for liberty and reunion with the Greek nation.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Mr. Gladstone learned, in 1858, that the peoples of the Ionian Islands, then administered by a British protectorate,were agitating for liberty and reunion with the Greek nation.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Mr. Gladstone learned, in 1858, that the peoples of the Ionian Islands, then administered by a British protectorate,were agitating for liberty and reunion with the Greek nation.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The geographical mismatch in his poems perhaps reflected his lack of familiarity with the Ionian Islands, together with the fact that he was composing a poem rather than a travel guide.
Archive 2007-01-01 Municipal Politics Blog 2007
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