Strongyli and Syrna. The name "Dodecanese" (older form ἡ Δωδεκάνησος, hē Dōdekanēsos; modern τα Δωδεκάνησα, ta Dōdekanēsa), meaning "The Twelve Islands",...

century, it may have been the capital of a short-lived thema of the "Dodekanesos". In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, with a Latin Empire under the...

Cyclades, with eleven suffragan sees including Astypalaia, Ios and in the Dodekanesos Nisyrus (Nisyros island). Gregory, Timothy E. (1991). "Rhodes". In Kazhdan...

741–775). At the time, he held the post of droungarios (admiral) of the Dodekanesos (roughly the southern Aegean Sea). After the plot was discovered, Irene...

the Cyclades Crusaders Western Macedonia and Aegean Islands The term "Dodekanesos" ("Twelve Islands") first appears in Byzantine sources in the 8th century...

controlling the northern half, and the droungarios "of the Twelve Islands" (Dodekanesos) or "of the Gulf" (Kolpos), in charge of the southern half. The latter...

He was named after his paternal grandfather, the droungarios of the Dodekanesos Theophylact Rhangabe, who had participated in a failed conspiracy to...

appears to have come under the jurisdiction of the "droungarios of the Dodekanesos", whom some scholars (following Hélène Ahrweiler) identify with the post...

Dardanelles and Marmara Sea, and the command variously known as the Dodekanesos ('Twelve Islands') and Kolpos ('Gulf'), which was based at Samos and...

Crete Kreta Kriti Greek Cyclades Cycladen Kykladhes Greek Dodecanese Dodekanesos Dhodhekanisos Greek Euboea Euboea Evvia Greek Piraeus Piraeus Pireás...