{"id":31725,"date":"2025-04-05T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31725"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:46:52","slug":"ionian-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ionian-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Ionian Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ionian Islands Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A groundbreaking archaeological find in Lefkada, Greece, has unveiled the first-ever ancient Greek theater discovered in the Ionian Islands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Ionian Islands<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ionian Islands are a group of islands that are located off the <strong>western coast of Greece <\/strong>in the <strong>eastern part of the Ionian Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Collectively, the Ionian islands occupy a total land area of 2,306.94 sq.km. and comprise <strong>seven major islands<\/strong> and several smaller islands.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These islands are also often<strong> referred to as \u201cHeptanese\u201d or \u201cSeven Islands.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The major islands in the Ionian Island group include <strong>Kerkyra (Corfu), Paxi, Lefkada, Ithaki, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, and Kythira.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kefalonia\/Cephalonia is the largest <\/strong>among all the Ionian islands.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mount Ainos<\/strong>, which rises to an elevation of 1,628 m, is the <strong>highest point<\/strong> on Ionian Island.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Controlled by Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries, they were taken by Russian and Turkish forces in 1799.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In 1815 the Treaty of Paris placed them under the control of Britain; the <strong>British ceded them to Greece in 1864.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ionian Islands FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where are the Ionian Islands located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Western coast of Greece in the Ionian Sea<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the alternate name often used to refer to the Ionian Islands?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Heptanese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which is the largest of the Ionian Islands?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kefalonia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indiandefencereview.com\/ancient-greek-theater-ionian-islands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ionian Islands are a group of islands that are located off the western coast of Greece in the eastern part of the Ionian Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}