Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.
Year 475 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic, it was known as year 279 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 475 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
In Greek mythology, Automedon, son of Diores, was Achilles' charioteer, who drove the immortal horses Balius and Xanthos. He was born on the island of Skyros.
Skyros, in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros, is an island in Greece. It is the southernmost island of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC, the island was known as The Island of the Magnetes; later, it was consecutively known as Pelasgia, Dolopia, and finally Skyros. At 209 km2 (81 sq mi), it is the largest island of the Sporades, and had a population of about 3,000 in 2021.
The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades.
Alonnisos, also transliterated as Alonissos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Northern Sporades. It is 3 km (2 mi) (2 nm) east of the island of Skopelos. Alonnisos is also the name of a village on the island, as well as the municipality that encompasses the island and the village.
Euboea is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It consists of the islands of Euboea and Skyros, as well as a 260 km2 area on the Greek mainland. Its land area is 4,167.449 km2, whereas the total land area of the municipalities actually on the island Euboea is 3,684.848 km2, which includes that of numerous small offshore islets near Euboea's southern tip.
Deidamia is an opera in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli. It premiered on 10 January 1741 at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London.
The Skyrian Horse is a breed of miniature horse found on the Greek isle of Skyros.
Skantzoura is an island in the Sporades archipelago, along the east coast of Greece. The island is located 18 km (11 mi) southeast of the larger island of Alonnisos and 31 km (19 mi) northwest of the island of Skyros. As of 2011, it had no resident population. Skantzoura is in Zone B of the Alonnisos Marine Park.
Piperi is a Greek island in the Northern Sporades archipelago along the east coast of Greece, in the Aegean Sea. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos and, after Skyros, is the Sporades' easternmost island. Piperi is the core of the marine park and the approach within 3 nautical miles is forbidden. As of 2011, the resident population of the island was 6.
Skyropoula is a Greek island in the Sporades archipelago, along the east coast of Greece. The islet of Erinia lies directly to the east as well as the main island of Skyros. From 1860 until 2001, it was the private island of the Antoniadis family. This family has a long military and naval tradition; most recently, Admiral Antonis Antoniadis served as Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff from 2002 to 2005. In May 2001, the island became the property of an unidentified Cypriot businessman. As of 2011, it had no resident population.
Erinia, also Rineia, is a Greek island in the Sporades archipelago. It is located west of the island of Skyros.
Sarakino is a Greek island in the Sporades south of Skyros. As of 2011, it had no resident population.
The Monastery of Saint George of Skyros is a Byzantine monastery on the Greek island of Skyros.
Skyros Island National Airport is an airport serving the island of Skyros in Greece. It is located 17 km northwards from the town of the island, in an area called Trachi. It opened in 1984 and since then it operates as a civil airport.
Olympus or Olympos may refer to:
The Skyros wall lizard is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to the islands of Skyros and Piperi, Greece.
In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora.
Angeliki Hatzimichali (1895–1965) was a Greek folklorist. She grew up in Plaka, the daughter of a Greek literature professor, and devoted her life to the study of Greek tradition, spending much of her life in rural Greece, documenting the daily customs and crafts of the peasants. She was responsible for establishing workshops to ensure the preservation of traditional crafts and in 1921, she organized the first folk art exhibit in Greece. Her work was published in numerous folk-art journals in Greece and abroad. Hatzimichali's neoclassical mansion in Plaka is now a museum, Centre of Folk Art and Tradition, which contains an array of handwoven fabrics and embroideries, costumes and ceramic plates from Skyros.
