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Lefkada produced two major Greek poets: Aristotelis Valaoritis, born in 1824, and Angelos Sikelianos, born in 1884. Both wrote in the spoken…

The Ionian Islands were united with Greece in 1864 after decades of political debate, reform movements and demands for Enosis. The transfer…