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Lefkada Island

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Levkas, sometimes called Levkada and known to the Venetians as Santa Mavra, lies just, but only just, off the coastline of Achar-nania. Homer in the Odyssey refers to it as a promontory of Epirus; at first sight it does appear to be a peninsula leaning out from the mainland, and such it was in early times. (more…)