Salento
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Salento is a cultural, historical, and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia, in southern Italy. It is a sub-peninsula of the Italian Peninsula, sometimes descri
A view of Salento from satellite
Santa Maria al Bagno seaside
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Greek is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to the territories that have had populations of Greeks since anti
Salento
…region, known since then as modern Calabria. In the eleventh century BC, Iapygians migrated to Apulia from the Illyrian coast, to what was Messapia (Greek: Μεσσαπία) which was the ancient name of a region of Italy largely corresponding to modern Salento. Following the migration, the Greeks arrived in…
Idealised portrayal of the author Homer
Inscription written using the Linear B syllabary on a tablet
Greek inscription in Cypriot syllabic script