Qualla: Cephalonia https://qualla.com/cephalonia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/9/cephalonia-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cephalonia https://qualla.com/cephalonia Cephalonia: Introduction https://qualla.com/cephalonia/ Photo credit Pitichinaccio, Public domain. The island's name comes from a hero who perhaps never existed. According to ancient tradition, King Kefalos received Cephalonia as a reward from Amphitryon, and thereafter the island bore his name. Whether or not the legend is true, Cephalonia has been inhabited and fought over for at least 40,000 years, making it one of the most continuously occupied places in Greece. Today it is the largest of the Ionian Islands — 786 square kilometres of mountains, olive groves, limestone cliffs, and coves — and one of the most seismically active spots in Europe. The island has been raised 60 centimetres by a single earthquake. It has been ruled by Normans, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, French, Russians, British, and Germans. Through all of it, the island endured.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/9/cephalonia-wp/sqy9-cephalonia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cephalonia: Four City-States and a Mountain Temple https://qualla.com/cephalonia/ Photo credit Abfab27 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. From at least the 6th century BC, Cephalonia was organized into four independent city-states — a federation the ancients called the tetrapolis. Pale (site of modern Lixouri), Cranii (modern Argostoli), Same (modern Sami), and Pronnoi each minted their own coins and built their ow...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/9/cephalonia-wp/sqy9-cephalonia-four-city-states-and-a-mountain-temple.mp3 0:06 2 full Cephalonia: Currants, Castles, and Venetian Centuries https://qualla.com/cephalonia/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Christos Vittoratos assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Venice absorbed Cephalonia definitively by 1500, and held it for nearly three centuries. The Venetian period shaped much of what the island looks like today — and much of what it lost in 1953. Because of the relatively liberal atmosphere under the Venetian governor Marcantonio Gi...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/9/cephalonia-wp/sqy9-cephalonia-currants-castles-and-venetian-centuries.mp3 0:06 3 full Cephalonia: British Rule and the Road to Greece https://qualla.com/cephalonia/ Photo credit Pitichinaccio, CC BY 3.0. By 1809, the British had blockaded and occupied the Ionian Islands, installing provisional governments and beginning public works. Colonel Charles Philippe de Bosset, serving as provisional governor from 1810 to 1814, built the long stone bridge across the Argostoli lagoon that s...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/9/cephalonia-wp/sqy9-cephalonia-british-rule-and-the-road-to-greece.mp3 0:06 4 full Cephalonia: The Acqui Division: A Massacre in 1943 https://qualla.com/cephalonia/ Photo credit ChristosV, CC BY-SA 3.0. World War II brought occupation, and then atrocity. Until September 1943, the island was held primarily by the Italian 33rd Infantry Division Acqui — about 12,000 men, alongside approximately 2,000 German troops. When the Allies concluded an armistice with Italy in September 1943...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/9/cephalonia-wp/sqy9-cephalonia-the-acqui-division-a-massacre-in-1943.mp3 0:06 5 full Cephalonia: The Earthquake That Lifted an Island https://qualla.com/cephalonia/ Photo credit ChristosV, CC BY-SA 3.0. In August 1953, a series of four earthquakes struck the island. The third and most destructive, on 12 August at 11:24 local time, measured 6.8 in magnitude. Its epicentre lay directly south of the island's southern tip. Virtually every house on Cephalonia was destroyed — the only...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/9/cephalonia-wp/sqy9-cephalonia-the-earthquake-that-lifted-an-island.mp3 0:06 6 full