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Ionian islands
Ionian islands n. (with the) a chain of about forty Greek islands in the Ionian Sea, situated off the western coast of mainland Greece; (also in singular) one of these islands.The seven principal islands of this chain are Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakinthos, Paxos, Lefkas, and Kythira. Between 1815 and 1864 they constituted a British protectorate called the United States of the Ionian Islands.
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1695 P. Hume Annot. Paradise Lost ii. 94 Ulysses,..Son of Laertes King of Ithaca and Dulichia, two small Ionian Islands.
1815 in Parl. Deb. (1816) 1st Ser. 32 297/1 The trading flag of the United States of the Ionian islands shall be acknowledged by all the Contracting Parties as the Flag of a free and independent State.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 14 Ionian Islands is the name given to the seven islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Paxo, and Cerigo, which are scattered along the coast of Epirus and of the Peloponnesus.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 513 The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George was founded..to reward the services of the inhabitants of Malta and the Ionian islands.
1991 Washington Post 20 Jan. (Book World) 4/4 Leucadia in the Ionian islands, [Lafcadio] Hearn's birthplace.
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