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Kytherian
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en Cytherean.
en w:Nicolas Coldstream; George Leonard Huxley Kythera; Excavations and Studies Conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British School at Athens Park Ridge, N.J. Noyes Press 1973 291 Also absent from Kytherian pottery are a number of other motifs current in Cretan L.M. IA; but since the motifs are at home only in eastern Crete, their absence from our local school is hardly surprising.
en The Minoan Thalassocracy Myth and Reality: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 31 May-5 June, 1982 1984 109 In contrast the Kytherian tombs, being set in the steep hillsides of the Palaiopolis and Vothonas valleys, had very short dromoi or no dromoi at all.
en George Kourvetaris Sociology Greece in Modern Times The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2000 552 0-8108-3658-0 Demos uses interviews to compare two birth cohorts of American women of Greek Kytherian heritage.
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en Cytherean.
en w:George Grote History of Greece VI London John Murray 1849 497 Some few men, indicated by the Kytherians in intelligence with Nikias, were carried away as prisoners to Athens:
en Laographia: A Newsletter of the International Greek Folklore Society 1991 10 Fear of attack and conquest was ever-present, and Kytherians populated dense, walled cities where they felt safer.
en Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory Cemeteries in the Countryside: An Archaeological Investigation of the Modern Mortuary Landscape in the Eastern Corinthia and Northern Kythera William R. Caraher; Linda Jones Hall; R. Scott Moore Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory w:Ashgate Publishing 2008 325 978-0-7546-6442-0 Kytherians have a long history of migration, pre-dating that of many mainland Greeks, especially during the late 19th and early to mid 20th century.