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42-800: Seven Islands or Seven Isles may refer to: the Ionian Islands in Greece, which are also known as the Heptanese or the Seven Islands Seven Islands of Bombay , the seven islands which united to form the island of Bombay Seven Islands (West Virginia) , a group of seven bar islands in West Virginia, U.S. Seven Islands Land Company , a land and timber management holding company of Maine, U.S. Seven Islands Republic ,

84-553: A Latin letter, was apparently viewed by Donald Knuth in 1976 as a capital Omicron, probably in reference to his definition of the symbol (capital) Omega . Neither Bachmann nor Landau ever call it "Omicron", and the word "Omicron" appears just once in Knuth's paper: in the title. There were several systems for writing numbers in Greek ; the most common form used in late classical era used omicron (either upper or lower case) to represent

126-751: A distinct historic region, they date to the centuries-long Venetian rule , which preserved them from the Muslim conquests of the Ottoman Empire , and created a distinct cultural identity with many Italian influences. The Ionian Islands became part of the modern Greek state in 1864. Administratively today, they belong to the Ionian Islands Region except for Kythera , which belongs to the Attica Region . The seven primary islands are, from north to south: The six northern islands are off

168-815: A former republic in the Ionian Islands Seven Isles (Fort Lauderdale) , neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. Seven Isles, a fictional archipelago in Narnia See also [ edit ] Seven Isles (disambiguation) Sept-Îles (disambiguation) Sjuøyane (Seven Islands), part of the Svalbard Archipelago in Arctic Norway Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

210-410: A long dash (—). Both an omicron and a dash imply that "this is not a mistake, the cell is actually supposed to be empty" . By coincidence, the ancient zero-value omicron ( ′ο ) resembles a modern Hindu-Arabic zero ( 0 ). The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the Greek alphabet to describe variants of concern of SARS‑CoV‑2 , the virus which causes COVID-19 . On November 26, 2021, Omicron

252-409: A maximum Mercalli intensity of X ( Extreme ) on August 12, 1953. Building damage was extensive and the southern islands of Kefalonia and Zakynthos were practically levelled. The islands were reconstructed from the ground up over the following years under a strict building code. The code has proven extremely effective, as many earthquakes since that time have caused no damage to new buildings. Today, all

294-565: A post-war annexation. In 1943, the Germans replaced the Italians, and deported the centuries-old Jewish community of Corfu to their deaths. By 1944, most of the islands were under the control of the EAM / ELAS resistance movement, and they have remained in general a stronghold of left-wing sentiment ever since. The 1953 Ionian islands earthquake occurred with a surface wave magnitude of 7.2 and

336-658: The British Empire . The British government resisted, since like the Venetians they found the islands made useful naval bases. They also regarded the Bavarian -born king of Greece, King Otto , as unfriendly to Britain. However, in 1862, Otto was deposed in a coup by the Great National Assembly and a new king, George I from Denmark, was elected in his place. In 1862, Britain decided to transfer

378-593: The close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [o] in contrast to omega which represented the open-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [ɔː] and the digraph ου which represented the long close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [oː] . In modern Greek , both omicron and omega represent the mid back rounded vowel IPA: [o̞] or IPA: [ɔ̝] . Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O|Ю (Cyrillic)|Ю . The word literally means "little O" ( o mikron ) as opposed to "great O" ( ō mega ). In

420-887: The fall of Constantinople in 1453. In 1807 the Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia ceded the Ionian Islands to the French again, and the French Empire took possession . In 1809, the British Royal Navy defeated the French fleet in Zakynthos (October 2, 1809) captured Kefallonia, Kythera and Zakynthos, and took Lefkada in 1810. The French held out in Corfu until 1814. The Treaty of Paris in 1815 turned

462-623: The system of Greek numerals , omicron has a value of 70. In addition to its use as an alphabetic letter, omicron is occasionally used in technical notation, but its use is limited since both upper case and lower case (Ο ο) are indistinguishable from the Latin letter "o" (O o) and difficult to distinguish from the Arabic numeral "zero" (0). The big-O symbol was introduced by Paul Bachmann in 1894 and popularized by Edmund Landau in 1909, originally standing for "order of" ("Ordnung") and being thus

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504-651: The 1930s. The novel and movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin are set in Kefalonia, in which Captain Corelli is part of the Italian occupation force during the Second World War. The Ionian Islands' official population, excluding Kythera, in 2011 was 207,855, decreased by 1.50% compared to the population in 2001. Nevertheless, the region remains the third by population density with 90.1/km nationwide, well above

546-476: The 9th century BC. The early Eretrian settlement at Kerkyra was displaced by colonists from Corinth in 734 BC. The islands were mostly a backwater during Ancient Greek times and played little part in Greek politics. The one exception was the conflict between Kerkyra and its mother-city Corinth in 434 BC, which brought intervention from Athens and triggered the Peloponnesian War . Ithaca

588-673: The French general Napoléon Bonaparte conquered Venice . By the Treaty of Campo Formio of October 1797 the islanders found themselves under French rule , which organised the islands as the départements Mer-Égée , Ithaque and Corcyre . In 1798–1799 a Russian-Ottoman fleet under the command of the Russian Admiral Ushakov evicted the French; the victors established the Septinsular Republic of 1800–1807 under joint Russo-Ottoman protection—the first time Greeks had had even limited self-government since

630-463: The Greek language and religion, such as Ioannis Kapodistrias . In the 18th century, a Greek national independence movement began to emerge, and the free status of the Ionian islands made them the natural base for exiled Greek intellectuals, freedom fighters and foreign sympathisers. The islands became more self-consciously Greek as the 19th century, the century of romantic nationalism, neared. In 1797

672-476: The Greek names of the islands, particularly in historical writing. Kefallonia is often spelled as Cephallenia or Cephalonia , Ithaki as Ithaca , Kerkyra as Corcyra , Kythera as Cythera , Lefkada as Leucas or Leucada and Zakynthos as Zacynthus . Older or variant Greek forms are sometimes also used: Kefallinia for Kefallonia and Paxos or Paxoi for Paxi. The islands were settled by Greeks at an early date, possibly as early as 1200 BC, and certainly by

714-478: The Ionian Islands to work as builders and artisans, forming the basis of the Corfiot Maltese community. Once Greek independence was established after 1830, however, the islanders began to press for Enosis – union with Greece. The British statesman William Ewart Gladstone toured the islands and recommended that having already Malta , giving the islands to Greece would not hurt the interest of

756-781: The Venetians in 1204, after the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire by the Fourth Crusade . These became important overseas colonies of the Republic and were used as way-stations for their maritime trade with the Levant . From 1204, the Republic of Venice controlled Corfu and slowly all the Ionian islands fell under Venetian rule. In the 15th century, the Ottomans conquered most of Greece, but their attempts to conquer

798-573: The biggest increase nationwide by 13.11% compared to 2011, while Corfu had an increase of 6.31%. Omicron Omicron ( US : / ˈ oʊ m ɪ k r ɒ n , ˈ ɒ m ɪ k r ɒ n / , UK : / oʊ ˈ m aɪ k r ɒ n / ; uppercase Ο , lowercase ο , Greek : όμικρον ) is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet . This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin : [REDACTED] . In classical Greek , omicron represented

840-639: The control of the Macedonian Kingdom until 146 BC, when the Greek peninsula was gradually annexed by Rome . After 400 years of peaceful rule, the islands continued under the control of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire . Under Byzantine rule, from the mid-8th century, they formed the theme of Cephallenia . The islands were a frequent target of Saracen raids and from

882-431: The decline of their traditional industries, fishing and marginal agriculture. Today, their major industry is tourism. Specifically Kerkyra, with its harbour, scenery and wealth of ruins and castles, is a favourite stopping place for cruise liners. British tourists in particular are attracted through having read Gerald Durrell 's evocative book My Family and Other Animals (1956), which describes his childhood on Kerkyra in

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924-611: The eastern on the penult ( IPA: [ioˈnia] ). In English, the adjective relating to Ionia is Ionic , not Ionian . The islands themselves are known by a variety of names. During the centuries of rule by Venice , they acquired Venetian names, by which some of them are still known in English (and in Italian ). Kerkyra was known as Corfù , Ithaki as Val di Compare , Kythera as Cerigo , Lefkada as Santa Maura and Zakynthos as Zante . A variety of spellings are used for

966-420: The fifteenth star in a constellation group, its ordinal placement an irregular function of both magnitude and position. Such stars include Omicron Andromedae , Omicron Ceti , and Omicron Persei . In Claudius Ptolemy 's ( c.  100–170 ) Almagest , tables of sexagesimal numbers   1 ... 59   are represented in the conventional manner for Greek numbers : ′α ′β ... ′νη ′νθ  . Since

1008-403: The islands are part of the Greek region of the Ionian Islands ( Ionioi Nisoi ), except Kythera, which is part of the region of Attica . Kerkyra has a population of 103,300 (including Paxoi), Zakynthos 40,650, Kefallonia 39,579 (including Ithaca), Lefkada 22,536, Ithaki 3,052, Kythera 3,000 and Paxi 2,438. In recent decades, the islands have lost much of their population through emigration and

1050-671: The islands into the " United States of the Ionian Islands " under British protection (November 5, 1815). In January 1817, the British granted the islands a new constitution. The islanders elected an Assembly of 40 members, who advised the British High Commissioner. The British greatly improved the islands' communications, and introduced modern education and justice systems. The islanders welcomed most of these reforms, and took up afternoon tea, cricket and other English pastimes. The British also brought thousands of Maltese to

1092-483: The islands to Greece, as a gesture of support intended to bolster the new King's popularity (probably as a counterbalance to the newly established Italian state). On May 2, 1864, the British departed and the islands became three provinces of the Kingdom of Greece, though Britain retained the use of the port of Corfu. On 21 May 1864 the Ionian Islands officially reunited with Greece. Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark

1134-571: The islands were largely unsuccessful. Zakynthos passed permanently to Venice in 1482, Kefalonia and Ithaki in 1483, Lefkada in 1502. Kythera had been in Venetian hands since 1238. The islands became the only part of the Greek-speaking world to escape Ottoman rule. During this time, large numbers of Greeks moved to the Ionian islands to escape Ottoman persecution. Smaller numbers of Albanian, Aromanian and Slavic-speaking Christians also fled to

1176-647: The islands, though they quickly assimilated into the Greek majority. Venetian was the official language of the islands during this period, and many Greeks adopted the Venetian language for social advancement. This was bolstered by the arrival of thousands of settlers from other parts of the Venetian Republic, forming the basis of the Corfiot Italian community. The majority of the island, however, remained ethnically, linguistically and religiously Greek. Many Corfiot Italians later Hellenised, adopting

1218-533: The late 11th century, saw a number of Norman and Italian attacks. Most of the islands fell to William II of Sicily in 1185. Corfu and Lefkas remained under Byzantine control. Kefallonia and Zakynthos became the County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos until 1357, when this entity was merged with Lefkada and Ithaki to become the Duchy of Leucadia under French and Italian dukes. Corfu, Paxi and Kythera were taken by

1260-406: The letter omicron [which represents 70 ( ′ο ) in the standard system] is not used in sexagesimal , it is re-purposed to represent an empty number cell. In some copies, zero cells were just left blank (nothing there, value is zero), but to avoid copying errors, positively marking a zero cell with omicron was preferred, for the same reason that blank cells in modern tables are sometimes filled-in with

1302-420: The national of 81.96/km . The most populous of the major islands is Corfu with a population of 104,371, followed by Zakynthos (40,759), Kefalonia (35,801), Lefkada (23,693) and Ithaca (3,231). The foreign-born population was in 2001 19,360 or 9.3%, the majority of which was concentrated in Corfu and Zakynthos. Most of them originate from Albania (13,536). The fertility rate for 2011 according to Eurostat

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1344-509: The same Latin transliteration and Modern Greek pronunciation, the Ionian Sea and Islands are not related to Ionia , an Anatolian region; in Greek, the Ionian Sea and Ionian Islands are spelled with an omicron (Ιόνια), whereas Ionia has an omega (Ιωνία), reflecting a classical difference in pronunciation. The two words are still distinguished by stress: the western "Ionia" is accented on the antepenult ( IPA: [iˈonia] ), and

1386-592: The so-called "spurious diphthong" OY representing long /o:/. Although the Greeks took the character O from the Phoenician letter `ayin , they did not borrow its Phoenician name. Instead, the name of the letter O in classical Attic times was simply the long version of its characteric sound: οὖ (pronounced /o:/) (that of Ω was likewise ὦ ). By the second and third centuries CE, distinctions between long and short vowels began to disappear in pronunciation, leading to confusion between O and Ω in spelling. It

1428-501: The title Seven Islands . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven_Islands&oldid=1116841308 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ionian Islands As

1470-464: The value 70. More generally, the letter omicron is used to mark the fifteenth ordinal position in any Greek-alphabet marked list. So, for example, in Euclid 's Elements , when various points in a geometric diagram are marked with letters, it is effectively the same as marking them with numbers, each letter representing the number of its place in the standard alphabet. Omicron is used to designate

1512-614: The west coast of Greece, in the Ionian Sea . The seventh island, Kythira , is off the southern tip of the Peloponnese , the southern part of the Greek mainland. Kythira is not part of the region of the Ionian Islands , as it is included in the region of Attica . In Ancient Greek , the adjective Ionios ( Ἰόνιος ) was used as an epithet for the sea between Epirus and Italy in which the Ionian Islands are found, because, according to myth, Io swam across it. Although they have

1554-463: Was 1.35 live births per woman during her lifetime. The regional gross domestic product for 2010 was 4,029 million euros. The GDP per capita for the same year was 18,440 euros per capita which was lower than the national median of 20,481. However, the GDP per capita of Kefalonia and Zante, 23,275 and 24,616 respectively, was much higher than the national figure. Additionally, unemployment for 2012

1596-410: Was 14.7, the lowest among all Greek regions, and much lower compared to the national unemployment of 24.2. The region is a popular tourist destination. The airports of Corfu, Zante and Kefalonia were in the top ten in Greece by number of international arrivals, with 1,386,289 international arrivals for 2012, with Corfu being the sixth airport by number of arrivals nationwide. While Kefalonia Airport had

1638-436: Was assigned to the B.1.1.529 variant of concern . In the earliest Greek inscriptions, only five vowel letters A E I O Y were used. Vowel length was undifferentiated, with O representing both the short vowel /o/ and the long vowels /o:/ and /ɔː/. Later, in classical Attic Greek orthography, the three vowels were represented differently, with O representing short /o/, the new letter Ω representing long /ɔː/, and

1680-462: Was at this time that the new names of ὂ μικρόν ("small O") for O ὦ μέγα ("great O") for Ω were introduced. During the early outbreak of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, many people unfamiliar with the entire Greek alphabet (or simply lacking the ability to pronounce or sound out words using phonetics ) mispronounced Omicron as "Omnicron" due to the unfamiliarity of the letter, and the use of

1722-460: Was born in Corfu in 1921 and grew up to become Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh . In 1923, following orders by Mussolini, the Italians temporarily occupied Corfu . In 1941, when Axis forces occupied Greece, the Ionian Islands (except Kythera) were handed over to the Italians. Long a target of Italian expansionism , the Greek civil authorities were replaced by Italians in preparation for

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1764-496: Was the name of the island home of Odysseus in the epic Ancient Greek poem the Odyssey by Homer . Attempts have been made to identify Ithaki with ancient Ithaca, but the geography of the real island cannot be made to fit Homer's description. Archeological investigations have revealed findings in both Kefalonia and Ithaca. By the 4th century BC, most of the islands were absorbed into the empire of Macedon . Some remained under

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