The Macedonian island of Taso

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  • Carlin
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    • Dec 2011
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    #31
    In antiquity - before the Hellenic settlers came - the native population of the island consisted of Thracians and Phoenicians.


    Last edited by Carlin; 08-23-2018, 04:51 PM.

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    • Carlin
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      • Dec 2011
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      #32
      Archeological Evidence of Religious Syncretism in Thasos, Greece during the Early Christian Period, by Valerie C. Cooper - go to page 41.

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      • Carlin
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        • Dec 2011
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        #33


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        • Liberator of Makedonija
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          • Apr 2014
          • 1595

          #34
          Not shocked at all by that.
          I know of two tragic histories in the world- that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented.

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          • tchaiku
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            • Nov 2016
            • 786

            #35
            Originally posted by Carlin View Post
            AD 365: A terrible earthquake brings destruction, and parts of the island disappear beneath the sea.
            565: The island is occupied by the Arabs, but liberated again by Heraclitus.
            7th Century: The rise of piracy in the Aegean.
            765: Thassos is pillaged by Slav pirates.
            900: Occupied by the Saracens.
            961: The Saracens are defeated by Nicephorus Phocas, and withdraw.
            1161: The French count Raymond de Poitiers seizes, pillages and destroys the island. The inhabitants are sold into slavery.
            1327: The Byzantine emperor Andronicus III brings new settlers to the island, whose population has declined. These new settlers were Cumans,
            as can been seen in the links provided below.


            (Andronicus brought Cuman settlers to Thassos, Lemnos and Lesbos.)

            Links:


            First published in 1989. This volume includes twelve of the main papers given at the Joint Meeting of the XXII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies and of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East held at the University of Nottingham from 26-29 March 1988. The Conference brought together a wide range of scholars and dealt with four main themes: relations between native Greeks and western settlers in the states founded by the Latin conquerors in former Byzantine lands in the wake of the Fourth Crusade; the Byzantine successor states at Nicaea, Epirus, and Thessalonica; the influence of the Italian maritime communes on the eastern Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance; and the impact on Christian societies there of the Mongols and the Ottoman Turks, as well as the perception of Greeks and Latins by other groups in the eastern Mediterranean.

            In The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.


            1) Max Vasmer wrote the following regarding Thassos, in his Die Slaven in Griechenland (in German):

            An slavisch deutbaren Namen ist mir nur im nordwestlichen Teil der Insel der ON Βουλγάρο (Vulgáro) bei Conze, Reise 40, auf Karten auch Volgaro, aufgefallen, letzteres auch bei Miller, Athos 180 (Karte). Der Name ist zweifellos mit dem Namen der Bulgaren *bъlgarinъ, abulg. *blъgarinъ zu verbinden. Solange keine andern slavischen Namen auf Thasos verzeichnet worden sind, ist es schwer zu entscheiden, ob es sich hier um eine vereinzelte Ansiedlung von Slaven durch die Griechen oder um eine Spur mittelalterlicher Slaven handelt, die im Zusammenhange mit der großen Slaveninvasion hier eingedrungen sein könnten. Vgl. auch Šišmanov, Bъlg. Prěgled IV, Nr. 3 S. 84. Von zufällig im 19. Jahrhundert nach Thasos verschlagenen Bulgaren weiß Dimitsas II 848 ff. zu berichten. Schwyzer sieht in Βουλγάρο einen Gen. pl. Βουλγάρων.

            2) It is mentioned by the locals that crews of Arvanites have constructed buildings (on Thassos), whose morphology places them in the 19th century. Many builders and constructors also came from Epirus and Bulgaria.

            Thassos Architecture. The remaining traditional houses of Thassos are dated back from the 1800’s.

            Η Αρχιτεκτονική της Θάσου. Τα διασωθέντα παραδοσιακά σπίτια της Θάσου χρονολογούνται από το 1800 και μετά. Οι κατασκευαστές τους ήταν μετακινούμενοι έμπειροι μάστορες αλλά και ντόπιοι, αυτοί που θα χαρακτηρίζαμε ως λαϊκούς αρχιτέκτονες.


            3) Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768, By Molly Greene

            Page 89: The Ottomans took Thassos and Samothrace by force and many of their inhabitants were then sent to Istanbul, where Mehmet's project to rebuild the city was in full swing (Topping 1986: 226).

            https://books.google.ca/books?id=0Dw...hassos&f=false

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