page_title: History of Zakynthos
section_title: Union with Greece (1864)
hierarchical_section_title: History of Zakynthos / Union with Greece (1864)
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: withworldspeopl04ridp (find matches) Title: With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men Year: 1915 (1910s) Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900 Subjects: World history Ethnology Publisher: Washington&#160;: Clark E. Ridpath Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 1 ^ -^ RUINS OF ANXVRA GALATIA.-After Charles Texier stock, that is, of the Aramaic branch thereof, had entered the Cilician country. We are here, however, on the borders of Syria and may, on general principles, expect a decline in Aryan influence. The coast region from Pamphylia to An- tioch is separated on the north from Lycaonia and Cappadocia by mountain ranges, and for this reason is less likelyM.—Vol. 2—5 Roman fleets and his own military repu-tation. The remaining province of Asia Minor,as it existed in the classical times, is Gala-tia, an inland countrv lying Anomalous posi-east of Phrygia. Its posi- T^^S^t^tion in the ethnic scheme of habitants.Western Asia is anomalous. Perhaps noother country, ancient or modern, has re- Text Appearing After Image: THE GREEKS.—GALA TIAi\S. 67 ceived its leading population under eir-cumstances so extraordinary. Originally Galatia was included, at least in part, with Phrygia. There can be little doubt that in common with the other countriesof Asia Minor there were aborigines in these regions whom the Aryans over-came in their migrations westward. No doubt Galatia had at one time a popula-tion of Aryan extraction. The geograph-ical position of the country would seemto forbid any other conclusion, but the strange fact in the ethnic history of the country is the incoming of a Gallic, that is a Celtic, race from the West. It was this Gallic invasion of 277 B. C. which gave the name to the country. It appears that a great Btoryandre- ^^ . , , suits of the Gal- body of Celts, turning back lie invasion. i- ii j. i. from the western partsof Europe, as we have shown in the former book, came upon Northern Greece, under the leadership of their great chieftain, Brennus, and reduced the northern countries to their sway Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Zakynthos is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Today, Zakynthos is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and its only municipality. It covers an area of 405.55 km² and its coastline is roughly 123 km in length. The name, like all similar names ending in -nthos, is pre-Mycenaean or Pelasgian in origin. In Greek mythology the island was said to be named after Zakynthos, the son of a legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus.
  The history of Zakynthos is long and complex, even by Greek standards. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, it has been held by the Kingdom of Naples, the Ottoman Turks, the Republic of Venice, the French, Russians, British, Italians and Germans.
context_section_description: A declaration from the Ionian Parliament in late 1864.
  And so in 1864, Zakynthos together with all the other Ionian Islands, became a full member of the Greek state, ceded by Britain to stabilize the rule of the newly crowned Danish-born King of the Hellenes, George I. The last British troops left the Ionian Islands on June 2, 1864.
  Cultural life continued to blossom in Zakynthos in the years following unification; however, whereas in the years prior to the British occupation, talented and ambitious Zakynthians would be educated in Italy and often return to the island, increasingly they would migrate to Athens. This trend accelerated in the years following unification with Greece. Arguably, over the long term this was detrimental to the cultural life of the island but it also meant that Ionian Island culture was exported to the rest of the Greek world.
caption: Seashore Zante 1892 by Charles W Wyllie
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