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Abstract:
Dedicated to the historical and cultural heritage of Lemnos, the book offers a new, valid, concise and accessible history of this unique Greek island in the Northeast Aegean. Based on historical and mythological sources, archaeological finds, important remains of ancient Greek, medieval and modern art, narratives and chronicles, engravings, drawings, photographs and other archival material, the author sketches in 250 pages and with the help of about 200 images, the history of Lemnos from the depths of the Aegean prehistory to the present day.
In its pages, readers will find important information about the society, the economy, the political life, the art and the intellectual creation of the island over time, from the first nomadic settlements during the late Paleolithic period (ca. 10,500 BC), until today: with extensive accounts of the prehistoric cities of Poliochni and Myrina, the important site of Koukonisi, Hephaestia and Kaveirion during the Archaic and Classical period (7th-4th century BC), Lemnos of the Hellenistic and Roman years, Lemnos as a Byzantine, Venetian, and Ottoman possession, but also the adventures of the island and its inhabitants from the liberation of 1912-13 onwards.