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Ionian Islands
noun
, (used with a plural verb)
- a group of Greek islands including Corfu, Levkas, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Paxos, and Zante off the W coast of Greece, and Cerigo off the S coast.
Ionian Islands
plural noun
- a group of Greek islands in the Ionian Sea, consisting of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Levkas, Ithaca, Cythera, and Paxos: ceded to Greece in 1864. Pop: 212 984 (2001). Area: 2307 sq km (891 sq miles)
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The literature, art, and history of the two groups of the Ægean and Ionian Islands offer study for many months.
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Towards the end of 1851, England agreed to relinquish her military occupation of the greater portion of the Ionian Islands.
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He would have preferred waiting in the Ionian Islands, and yet he set out for that fatal Missolonghi!
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Hence by a strange resuscitation of fame he has become the patron saint, one might almost say the divinity, of the Ionian Islands.
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In the summer of 1809 he sailed with the expedition sent to occupy the Ionian Islands.
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