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12 unusual facts about Corinth


Abraham Malpan

Here, the Malankara Church, one of the oldest Christian Churches in history was founded by Thomas the Apostle of Jesus Christ.It is believed that it was founded at the same time as that of the Church of Corinth, by Saint Paul

Alizarin

Cloth dyed with madder root pigment was found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun and in the ruins of Pompeii and ancient Corinth.

Charlotte Berend-Corinth

Charlotte Berend studied fine arts at the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum, taught by Eva Stort and Max Schäfer.

Corinth, Vermont

Tania Aebi, first American woman to sail solo around the world

Patricia Neway, operatic soprano and musical theater actress, lived there in retirement until her death in 2012

Lomaland

The building combines late-Victorian wooden architecture with historical motifs such as the modified Corinthian column (now shaped like a papyrus leaf) and flattened arches.

Medea in Corinto

Jason (Giasone) has rejected his former wife, Medea, in favour of Creusa, daughter of King Creon (Creonte) of Corinth.

My Sweet Canary

In the movie, Martha Demeteri Lewis, Tomer Katz and Mehtap Demir, three young musicians, look for the most famous singers of rebetiko and especially with the intention of learning more about the music career of Roza Eskenazi, as they travel between London, Jerusalem, Corinth, Istanbul, Athens and Salonika.

Panticapaeum

During the first centuries of the city's existence, imported Greek articles predominated: pottery (see Kerch Style), terracottas, and metal objects, probably from workshops in Rhodes, Corinth, Samos, and Athens.

Taberna

Tabernae probably first appeared in Greece in locations that were important for economic activities around the end of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Upon the Roman Empire’s expansion into the Mediterranean, the numbers of tabernae greatly increased, in addition to the centrality of the taberna to the urban economy of Roman cities like Pompeii, Ostia, Corinth, Delos, New Carthage, and Narbo.

Teloglion Foundation of Art

It also includes artworks from various civilizations: Hellenistic, Corinthian and Roman pottery, statues, especially from the Hellenistic period, samples of Chinese and Arabic art (dishes, vases, etc.), Persian miniatures and a variety of woodreliefs from Thailand.

Yung Suk Kim

Christ’s Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor (Paul in Critical Contexts), MN: Fortress, 2008.


19th Tennessee Infantry

Johnston decided to join Beauregard and so the 19th Tennessee, along with the rest of the brigade, left Decatur, Alabama, on March 15, 1862, and arrived in Corinth, Mississippi, on March 20.

Ancient Greek warfare

However, it was soon apparent that the hegemony was unstable, and the Persian Empire sponsored a rebellion by the combined powers of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos, resulting in the Corinthian War (395-387 BC).

Andre Cushing III

Cushing is a Republican State Senator from Maine's 33rd Senate District, representing Carmel, Charleston,Corinna, Corinth, Dexter, Dixmont, Etna, Exeter, Garland, Glenburn, Hampden, Kenduskeag, Levant, Newburgh, Newport, Plymouth, and Stetson Maine and his residence in Hampden.

Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth

The artifacts, which were systematically recovered beginning in 1896 by the Corinth Excavations, illustrate much about Ancient Corinth through Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule.

Argos

Argos has a railway station on the Kalamata - Tripoli - Corinth line of the Hellenic Railways Organisation, and a junior soccer team.

Athens Airport–Kiato railway

The railway from Athens Airport to Kiato is a 135-kilometre long railway line in Greece, that connects the International Airport of Athens with Kiato in the Peloponnese region, via the northern suburbs of Athens and Corinth.

Battle of Corinth

The Siege of Corinth, Mississippi (April–June 1862), also known as the First Battle of Corinth, during the American Civil War

Body of Christ

Kim, Yung Suk. Christ's Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor 2008 ISBN 0-8006-6285-7

Bounos

In Greek mythology, Bounos or Bunus, son of Hermes and Alcidamia, received the throne of Ephyra (an early name of Corinth) from Aeëtes, when the latter decided to migrate to Colchis, biding him to keep it until he or his children came back.

Carl Haller von Hallerstein

In June 1810 he accompanied Jakob Linkh (1786–1841), Peter Oluf Brøndsted (1780-1842), Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1787–1837) and Georg Koës (1782-1811) to Athens, via Naples, Corfu and Corinth.

Comast Group

Vases and fragments have been found at many sites, including Naukratis, Rhodes, Central Italy, Taras, and even Corinth.

Corinth station

Corinth railway station, the new railway station in Corinth that opened in 2005

Cycliadas

Philip offered to help them, and to carry the war into the enemy's country, if they would give him a sufficient number of their soldiers to garrison Chalcis, Oreus and Corinth in the meantime.

Diocese of Amyclae

in the Peloponnese in Greece, in the ecclesiastical province of Hellas, a suffragan of Corinth, and in the Middle Ages a Latin see known to the French rulers of Achaia as "Micles", or "Nicles", afterwards united with the sees of Veligosti and Leontari (Megalopolis).

Farmington, Mississippi

Siege of Corinth (First Battle of Corinth), American Civil War Battle

George Bent

His artillery unit participated in the siege and retreat from Corinth, Mississippi, where it stayed behind to cover the retreat of 66,000 Confederates under the command of P.G.T. Beauregard.

Gouva, Patras

The GR-8A and the E55 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) as well as the GR-5/E55 (Antirrio - Agrinio - Ioannina) and the GR-48/E65 (Patras - Antirrio - Nafpaktos - Livadia) as well as Panepistimiou Street.

Hellotia

According to the scholiast on Pindar (Ol. xiii. 56), the name was derived from the fertile marsh (elos) near Marathon, where Athena had a sanctuary ; or from Hellotia, one of the daughters of Timander, who fled into the temple of Athena when Corinth was burnt down by the Dorians, and was destroyed in the temple with her sister Eurytione.

History of Punic-era Tunisia: chronology

In 480 BC (concurrent with Persia's invasion of Greece), Mago's grandson Hamilcar landed a large army in Sicily in order to confront Syracuse (a colony of Corinth) on the island's eastern coast; yet the Greeks decisivelly prevailed at the Battle of Himera.

Jimbo Mathus

Mathus was involved in rock and roll in Corinth High School and was recorded first in 1983 at Sam Phillips Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, Tennessee, in a group called The End.

John McArthur

Following the capture of Corinth, McArthur took command of the 6th Division and was ordered to reinforce Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Army of Mississippi, stationed at Corinth.

Kastellokampos

It is connected with the road connecting the GR-8/E55 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) and Proasteio and Rio, it also connects direct with the old road via an underpass.

Moerbeke-Waas

It is thought to have been the hometown of William of Moerbeke, who as Bishop of Corinth produced a new translation into Latin of the works of Aristotle, including certain which had been rediscovered from Arab sources, in the late thirteenth Century.

Morea Eyalet

Upon its conquest, the peninsula was made a sanjak of the Rumelia Eyalet, with its capital first at Corinth (Turk. Kordos or Gördes), later in Leontari (Londari), Mystras (Mezistre or Misistire) and finally in Nauplion (Tr. Anaboli).

Peloponnese

During the first period of Ottoman rule (1460–1687), the capital was first in Corinth (Turk. Gördes), later in Leontari (Londari), Mystras (Misistire) and finally in Nauplion (Tr. Anaboli).

Philip Henson

On the eve of the American Civil War, Henson was working as a storekeeper and living with his wife Celestine Rachel in Corinth, Mississippi.

Roman–Parthian War of 161–166

Verus continued eastward via Corinth and Athens, accompanied by musicians and singers as if in a royal progress.

Sicilian Expedition

He wanted to reduce the number of generals from fifteen to three; Hermocrates, Heraclides, and Sicanus were elected and Hermocrates sent for help from Corinth and Sparta.

WFFG

WFFG-FM, a radio station (107.1 FM) licensed to Corinth, New York, United States