olive tree historyThe olive tree was a symbol for the Romans just as it was for the Greeks and other nations. Romans and Greeks developed all aspects of olive cultivation, production, and processing. The olive tree Olea europaea L. belongs to the Oleaceae family. There have been several ...
The indigenous olive tree (wild olive tree) first appeared in the eastern Mediterranean but it was in Greece that it was first cultivated. Since then, the presence of the olive tree in the Greek region has been uninterrupted and closely connected with the traditions and the culture of the Gre...
―named for the olive-tree-loving Athena---is more than a concrete jungle. It’s a lovely city decorated by outdoor cafes, pedestrian streets, parks, gardens and plenty of characters. If you get into the spirit of things, you might not even notice the smoke and fog hanging overhead....
Turkey (Türkiye) is a country that occupies a unique geographic position, lying partly in Asia and partly in Europe and serving as both a bridge and a barrier between them. The modern Turkish republic was founded in 1923 after the collapse of the Ottoma
Olives in Cyprus are very special and just about every property has a tree or one nearby. They can be seen everywhere from the olive farms to the beaches and even in the middle of the walkways. An olive tree can live for several hundred years and each olive tree becomes a work of art...
Prizes There were no gold,silver and bronze medals given out at the ancient Olympic Games(The winners were given a crown made of olive leaves The leaves had been cut from a special tree in Olympia.Winners would be treated like heroes when they went back home. People thought that they must...
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wine with new, spoiled with sound, or stating false origins). "The men of the Middle Ages drank what they could get. Good wine was welcome; inferior wine was tolerated; and almost any wine was preferable to none at all," he wrote. Flavoring, in addition to tree resins, was still ...
From the perspective of the regional fruit tree horticulture, olive was the dominant component, indicating that the region included extensive olive orchards. Other documented fruit trees are grapevine, fig, sycamore fig, carob, date palm and almond. The high frequencies of olive remains throughout ...
The Attributes of Mythic/Mythopoeic ThoughtThe pioneering work on this subject was The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East by Henri Frankfort, H.A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, and William A. Irwin (University of ...