Rodokanaki, Tanty, 302
Rollin (author of Ancient History), 171, 180
Rome and Romans, viii, 11, 44, 49, 55, 57, 87, 119, 122, 138–9, 175, 184, 188, 201, 204, 213–14, 219–20, 225, 251, 258, 268, 273, 275, 338–40
Roumania (Wallachia and Moldavia), 181–2, 184–5, 219, 289
Roumeli, x, 12, 61, 66, 185, 301, 344
Runciman, Prof. Steven (author of The Eastern Schism), 333
Russia and Russians, 13, 45, 55–6, 62, 112, 144, 185, 248, 265, 341
Sagone, 122
St. Artemidos, 202, 211
St. Athanasius, 122, 204, 244
St. Augustine, 59, 201, 244
St. Bacchus, 176, 268, 283
St. Basil, 219, 244
St. Bernard (of Clairvaux), 259
St. Demetrius, 30, 177, 202
St. Dionysios the Areopagite, 264; Letter to Dorotheus the Deacon, 264
St. George of Yanina, 277
St. Gerasimos, 269
St. Gideon of Tyrnavos, 277
St. Gregory Nazianzen, 244
St. Gregory of Nyssa, 244
St. Ignatius Loyola, 313; Spiritual Exercises, 313
St. Jerome, 207, 312
St. John the Baptist, 42, 204, 243
St. John Chrysostom, 220, 244
St. John Damascene, 200, 213
St. Luke, 269
St. Nicholas of Karditza, 277
St. Nikon, xi, 10, 18–19, 58
St. Paul, 201, 219, 236, 312, 319
St. Sergius, 176, 268
St. Sophia, 26, 48, 268
St. Thomas Aquinas, 244
Saints (cure of illnesses), 202–3
Salonika, 10, 12, 133, 169, 177, 268, 273, 333
Samaria gorge, 304
Samarina, 12, 303
Samos, 119, 299
San Giminiano, 98, 105
Sandwich, Earl of, 169, 183
Santorin, 142, 215, 308
Sappho, 213, 326
Sardinia and Sardinians, 125, 127, 214, 315
Schmaltz, General, 114
Schmidt, Bernhard, 200, 224
Scyros, 11, 210
Seferis, George (poet), 193, 215, 274, 321; The Argonauts, 215, 321
Seiradanis family (Sphakia), 319
Selinitza, 51
Seraskier (Turkish C.-in-C.), 292
Seriphos, 217
Serres Komotini, 273
Sestos, 46
Severus, Alexander, 201, 339
Sfax, 13
Sherrard, Philip (author of The Marble Threshing Floor), 274
Sicily and Sicilians, 47, 91, 106, 121–2, 145, 154, 311–12, 315
Sikelianos (poet), 274
Sikinos, 306
Skardamoula, 292
Skopelos, 303
Skoutari, 291, 334, 340
Slavs, 18–19, 58, 182, 185, 191, 199, 248, 259, 339
Smart, Sir Walter and Lady, 8
Smyrna, 12, 44
Solferino, 128
Solomos (modern Greek poet), 266, 274, 304
Solon, 243
Sophocles, 243
Souli, 12, 57, 153, 208
Soumela monastery, 270
Spain and Spaniards, 10, 19, 37, 47, 121, 134, 139, 200, 220, 271, 312, 342; Ferdinand and Isabella, 10; Spanish (language), 10, 284 n.,
Sparta and Spartans, 9–12, 14, 19–20, 22, 37, 57–9, 103, 105, 127, 129, 157, 163, 168, 170–1, 177–9, 198, 210, 261, 290, 296, 338–9, 342, 346
Spetzai, 312
Sporades, 228, 303, 344
Stephanopoli family, 45, 61, 117–18, 120–1, 123, 127–30, 341
Stesichorus, 212
Stewart, Captain, 169
Stoupa, 51
Strabo, 180, 213
Strophades islets, 311
Styx, river, 153–4
Superstitions and traditions, 6–7, 25, 38–40, 63, 66, 84–5, 86, 120, 173, 182, 187, 198–9, 207–8, 242, 252, 262, 271, 278, 288, 296, 300–1, 314
Syphnos, 13
Syra, 133
Syracuse, 307
Syrako, 173
Syria, 176, 330
Tabor, Mt., 248
Taenarus, ix, 21, 96, 138, 152, 203
Tarentum, 47, 307
Tarquinia, 105
Taurus mountains, 45, 144, 177
Taygetus mountains, xii, 9, 11, 14–16, 21–2, 30, 32, 34, 38, 40, 45, 51, 53, 57–8, 63, 80, 82–3, 93, 104, 114, 119, 131, 134, 136, 210, 260, 290, 309, 330, 343
Tepeléni, 286
Tertullian, 201
Thasos, 12, 226
Thermopylae, 59, 198
Theodora, Empress, 257
Thesprotia, 12, 153
Thessalonica, 13
Thessaly, 5, 157, 227–8, 265, 277, 280, 301
Thrace, xii, 5, 13, 44, 133, 204, 240; Anastenari (fire-walkers), 204
Thucydides, 243
Thule (King of Egypt), 243
Tiberius, Emperor, 201
Tiepolo, 267
Tigani rock, 94
Titus Quintus Flaminius, 338
Todi, Jiacopone da, 264
Tolmides, 338
Tourloti, 176–7
Trajan, 214, 219
Trakhila, 51–2
Trebizond, 13, 44, 59, 120, 127, 182, 257, 261, 265, 270, 276
Trieste, 13
Tripoli, 62, 103, 340
Troupakis family, 37–9, 62, 64
Troy, 46, 72, 101, 117, 178, 231–2
Trypi, 9, 17, 19
Tsarouchi, 318
Tsimova (see Areopolis)
Tsingriani family, 116
Turkey and Turks, xii, xi, 13, 19, 36, 38–9, 44, 53, 57, 59–64, 86, 103, 105, 112, 117, 118, 120-2, 129–30, 134–5, 158, 162, 169, 174, 179, 181, 184, 191–2, 237–8, 240, 254, 266–9, 273, 277–8, 280, 286, 291, 292, 296, 300–1, 319–20, 323, 330–4, 340–1
Tuscany, 13, 119, 127, 261
Tyre, 338
Tyrnavos, xii, 12, 277
Tzoukhalia, 149
Uniats, 122, 126, 130, 266
Valle, Pietro della, 178
Vamvaka, 93
Varousia, 31
Vatheia, 149, 160, 162–3, 165, 174, 230, 293
Veli, Pasha of Thessaly, 62, 277
Veloudios, Col. Thanos, 218
Venezis (author of Aeolia), 215
Venice and Venetians, 12–13, 36, 39, 52, 60–3, 88, 96, 108–9, 134–5, 142, 158, 162, 174, 191–2, 256, 264–7, 310, 312, 332–3, 346
Venizelos and Venizelists, 175, 238–241, 286
Vitylo, 52–3, 61, 117–8, 120–1, 127, 130, 134; Archbishop of, 121
Vlachs, 12, 32–3, 86, 112, 303
Volo, 273, 301
Volterra, 119, 125
Wallace, David, 325
Watkins, Thomas (author of Travels), 178
Wellesz, Dr. Egon (author of Byzantine Music and Hymnography), 252
Wheler, George (author of A Journey into Greece), 169
Winds, 12, 40, 47, 158, 292, 296, 310–14, 330
Xenophon, 270
Xerxes, 157
Yanina, 10, 172, 273, 277–8, 284
Yannitza, 16
Yenitzariani family, 116
Yerakaris, Liberakis, 61, 118
Yeroliména, 93, 131–4, 136, 138, 140, 160, 167
Ypsilanti, Prince Alexander, 185
Zagarochoria, 13
Zakynthos, 139
Zanetbey (Grigorakis), xi, 62, 106, 129, 158, 289, 292, 340, 346
Zante and Zantiots, 121, 177, 211, 206, 266, 268, 304
Zervobey, 62
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