tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910737876389410763.post1161529176656950781..comments2023-05-03T14:31:11.785+01:00Comments on DEMOCRACY STREET: '...instead of freedom'sibaddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02385376572555781755noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910737876389410763.post-52224668931673121772009-08-23T02:58:21.526+01:002009-08-23T02:58:21.526+01:00This blog's about what Kerkyra's like - wh...This blog's about what Kerkyra's like - when I'm there; when I'm imagining it; dystopias and utopias. Thucydides saw 'depravity in Corcyra' starting the Peloponnesian War: <br /><br />http://democracystreet.blogspot.com/2007/06/getting-home.htmlsibaddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385376572555781755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910737876389410763.post-16889817209416832022009-08-22T20:21:01.504+01:002009-08-22T20:21:01.504+01:00You can see Squipiera from there. What is Kerkira ...You can see Squipiera from there. What is Kerkira like? I only here of chavs puking up at 3am. The PC who killed/murdered Blair Peach was resettled there running a taverna.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910737876389410763.post-35723879050582234992009-08-22T18:35:11.753+01:002009-08-22T18:35:11.753+01:001386-1797 - influencing language and architecture ...1386-1797 - influencing language and architecture and, in the 1940s, sufficient prospect of irredentism for Mussolino, despite being defeated by the Greeks in Albania, to accept German help to make it part of his 'Kingdom of Italy'. Up until enosis in 1864 Italian was the language of government often spoken by British High Commissioners during the Protectorate from 1815. Between then and 1797 the French ruled the Ionians though for a seven year interval the Ionian islands were semi-independent, via a Turkish-Russian treaty, as the Septinsular Ionian Republic. Corfu's sublime olive canopy was the result of Venetian incentives to locals. Unlike the rest of Greece Corfu was never conquered, although invaded, by the Ottomans. It was a front-line state, an island that like Malta has never been insular and still has aspirations to greater autonomy and a tradition of ambivalence about union with mother Greece.sibaddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385376572555781755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910737876389410763.post-80265527668437811552009-08-22T17:22:16.753+01:002009-08-22T17:22:16.753+01:00Didn't the Ionians come under the Italian sphe...Didn't the Ionians come under the Italian sphere of influence? From La Serenissima to Mussolini?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com