Icons of the Hellenic World 2018 | Page 14

Venice SA The Hellenic World Circa 1700 CE 7 Crimea Sevastopol Dalmatian Coast BLACK SEA Varna Bari North Thesaloniki Epirus 2 Epirus MT Athos Ioannina Ionian 6 Athens Islands 8 10 3 Constantinople 1 Samsun Trabzon ASIA MINOR Smyrna Ikonium 4 Antalya Greek Islands 5 Adana 9 Crete 12 Cyprus Antioch 13 Alexandria 11 EGYPT Legend Areas with Greek Population or Cultural Presence Important Hellenic Cultural Centers Greek Sub-Groups 1. Constantinople 2. Northern Greece-Macedonia- Mount Athos 3. Pontic Greeks 4. Greeks of Asia Minor 5. Crete 6. Continental Greece and the Peloponnese Jerusalem Mount Sinai, St. Catherine Monastery 7. Venice 8. The Ionian Islands 9. Cyprus 10. The Greek Islands of the Aegean Sea 11. Patriarchate of Alexandria (Coptic Christians) 12. Patriarchate of Antioch 13. Patriarchate of Jerusalem The Hellenic World prior to the 19 th century. Distribution of Greek-speaking peoples,major cultural centers, and centers of Orthodoxy. 14 ICONS OF THE HELLENIC WORLD