[Metsovo] In various Turkish firmans, the area of Metsovo is referred to as derbent (derveni – passage) and its residents as derbentzides, meaning guards of the passage. Such passages (dervenia) constituted key aspects of the land and road organization system of the Ottoman state. Often, the responsibility for their security and maintenan...
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(from the article `calligraphy`) ...or painted on vases are, until c. 350 , the only immediate evidence for the way the Greeks wrote, and their study is normally treated as the ...
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