#preveza

[gemsofgreece]

Greece 🇬🇷 📍 Parga by chris_kap.21 on Instagram.

[illustratus]

Lieutenant Richemont shakes down an Albanian horseman during the Battle of Nicopolis in October 1798

by Felician Myrbach

[wgm-beautiful-world]

P A R G A

[eventyr]

An evening in Parga, Greece 🇬🇷

Photos by me, captured on iPhone 15 Pro Max

[epestrefe]

Στα σοκάκια της Πρέβεζας,Ταξίδι στην γη της Ηπείρου,2020

Φωτο:Στέλλα Παϊσανίδη.

Διαβάστε περισσότερα εδώ: https://parallaximag.gr/taxidi/taksidi-sti-gi-pou-se-kataklyzei-me-gefseis-myrodies-kai-aromata

[athwaperistera]

[noirgasmweetheart]

"Skip the pleasantries Leyden. You called me here for a business proposal. Let's hear it."

"I need you to pretend to be my fiancé at an upcoming occasion. People are starting to ask a lot of questions about me and Eric..."

[angelamontoo]

Diversity win, Women can be babygirls too

[cyb3rs1oth]

Nicopoli, Preveza, Greece

August 2024

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Priest in a destroyed church in Kastri, Preveza, 1913.

[religious-extremist]

The Red Beard of the Pasha

When Ali Pasha ruled Ioannina, St. Kosmas of Aitolia prophesied to him about all the territories he would conquer.

Ali Pasha was told by the saint, “You will become a great man, you will conquer all of Albania, you will subjugate Preveza, Parga, Souli, Delvino, Gardiki, and the very stronghold of Kurt Pasha. You will leave a great name in the world. Also, you will go to Constantinople... but with a red beard. This is the will of Divine Providence.”

Saint Kosmas was martyred in August 24, 1779 after he was accused of being a Russian agent against the Ottomans. Indeed, Ali Pasha went on to become the sole ruler of Epiros, subjugating all of Albania and parts of Greece.

In January 1822, Ali Pasha was beheaded by his adversaries and his head was paraded on a silver platter throughout the streets of Ioannina, before it was sent to Constantinople. Thus came the fulfillment of Saint Kosmas’s prophecy that Ali Pasha of Ioannina would enter Constantinople with a beard made crimson by his own blood.

[gemsofgreece]

An evening in Parga || Valantis M. Photography

[wordsmithic]

Kokkinopilos hills, Preveza, Hellas photo by @dimitris_patsis

The appearance of the Kokkinopilos hills (lit. "red clay" hills) is an unusual geological and natural phenomenon. The rains turned this low terra rossa (iron oxides with clay) plateau into an alternating landscape of hills and small ravines.

It's a red spot amidst the greenery and the light brown soil of the area. Important findings from the Paleolithic and Bronze Age were found near Kokkinopilos.

[usafphantom2]

Beaufighters of 252 Squadron attack the Italian seaplane base at Preveza, Greece, Cant Z501 in foreground.

@ron_eisele via X

[captchalove]

The Augustan era created a culture remarkable for its creativity, which is represented in the monumental structures and buildings (including the Monument of Augustus, Odeion, Theatre, Nymphaeum, and  Mausoleums), in its civic planning and in the advanced engineering and construction techniques used.

Augustus Caesar granted the city substantial political and economic privileges and adorned it with magnificent monuments while also reviving the Actium Games. Nikopolis served as the capital of Epirus and Acarnania during the first three centuries of the Roman Empire.

The city, with its fortified walls and cemeteries, occupies a fertile strip of land between the Ionian Sea to the west and the Ambracian Gulf to the east, where two of the three city harbors were located. The third harbor ran along both sides of the inlet known as Ormos Vathy at the north edge of the modern city of Preveza.

Nikopolis was constructed within walls with four main gates at the compass points. The southern quarters included the Odeion while the northern section saw the construction of the Monument of Augustus, the Theatre, the Gymnasium, and the Stadium.

This area, known to ancient writers as the “Suburb,” is located outside the Roman fortification walls on the hills surrounding the city with a magnificent view of the Ionian sea and the Preveza peninsula. The city had an impressive water-supply system as well with a 50-km (31-mile) long aqueduct consisting of a series of arches (arcade) and tunnels which carried water from the Louros springs to the Nymphaeum from where it was distributed within the city.

[athwaperistera]