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The National Poet of Greece
Quinn, Daniel | July 17, 1902 issue

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The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomós was commemorated on 11th June, 1902 in the island of Zakynthos in Greece. Solomós was twenty-three years of age when, in 1821, the war for freedom began in Greece. The Zakynthians were at that time British subjects, for since 1809 Zakynthos had been under English protection and rule. Zakynthos was a Venetian possession for more than three hundred years, up to 1797. Under the influence this protracted foreign control, the nobles, who constituted the highest class of Zakynthians, became out and out Italian in many of their habits and in language.

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SOLOMOS, Dionysios; POETS; ITALIANS; LANGUAGE & languages; ZAKYNTHOS (Greece); GREECE
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