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IKARIA (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
  The Ikarian dance, from a musical standpoint, is unique in the Greek realm. Its variations look like the “Kalamatiano” (a kind of “syrtos” dance from Southern Greece) and originates from antiquity, in the ancient “χόρειο άλογο” dance. The traditional songs, such as “Ambelokoutsoura”, in iambic 15-syllable metre, are what has been saved as a specimen of dactylic metre and of the music we come across in Homer.
  The musical instruments used by Ikarian musicians are the lyra, the violin and the tsabounofylaka (island bagpipes).
  Apart from the traditional songs, there are the epics (rives), which refer to the history of Ikaria. The Riva of the Castle of Koskina (Kossikia, Mesaria) in three variations is about the taking over of the Castle by the Genoese, and the Riva of Lagada about the rebuttal of the pirates by the inhabitants.
  Rives and traditional songs are sung at feasts and traditional weddings.
This text (extract) is cited January 2004 from the Evdilos Municipal Cultural Organization tourist pamphlet.

Ikarian Dancing Music

Island-Ikaria Web page
• http://www.island-ikaria.com/multimedia/music.asp (1 img.)

Greek language courses in Ikaria

ARETHOUSSA (Village) EVDILOS
The Hellenic Culture Centre (Kentro Ellinikou Politismou) organises Modern Greek courses every year. The courses take place in the picturesque island of Ikaria (summer courses: May - October), as well as in Athens (all year).

• http://hcc.gr/
• http://www.cc.ece.ntua.gr/~eadami/hcc/info.html

Civilization of Chios

CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN

• http://www.aegeanweb.gr/english/chios/enchiosgenti... (4 img.)

Limnian stone structure

LEMNOS (LIMNOS) (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
  The brilliant stone built wells of Poliohny's, they testify the ancient deposits of art of lapidaries in Limnos.
  In the newer years, the impressive blossoming of the stone structure, serves the needs of decoration of the houses of the rich and the public buildings and especially the schools of the 19th century but also monuments, of the heroes and the churches. Almost in each settlement, the visitor will meet samples of work of local anonymous craftsmen in the transoms and in the balconies of houses, in the facade of the school buildings, in the stone belfries but also in the monuments usually in the squares of villages or in the two allied cemeteries (Moudrou and Portianou). Impressively are also, the scattered, mainly in the abandoned houses and in the "stone yards" handy stone implements or objects as, hand mills for the grinding of the cereals, stone water tanks for the watering of the animals as well as the innumerable wells in the countryside and the springs almost in each settlement.
  The springs also constitute, an important element of the local culture and their usual monumental character, symbolizes the exceptional importance of the running water in an arid place.
  Traditionally limnian wine-pressers (stone pots sculpted in soft rock) in big clumps, we meet mainly in the villages Repanidi, Romanos, Varos and Rousopoulj. They were usually bevelled in Community spaces (specifically in Varos there are many private ones) near the villages and it appears that their use was common to all residents. Their capacity is between 1,5 and 2 tones and was used mainly for the stepping of the grapes but also for the keeping of cereals in times of piracy.

This text is cited March 2004 from the Municipality of Moudros URL below, which contains images.

• http://www.dimosmoudrou.gr/laikiarxitekt_en.htm (2 img.)