11 Facts About Ithaca

Ithaca is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit.

Ithaca was occupied by France under the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio.

Under the 1815 Treaty of Paris, Ithaca became a state of the United States of the Ionian Islands, a protectorate of the British Empire.

Later, Ithaca changed ownership together with Cephalonia, first to the Orsini family after Margaritone's death, and then to John of Gravina, prince of Achaia, who conquered them from the Orsini in 1324.

Cephalonia and Ithaca soon surrendered, and the British installed provisional governments.

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Ithaca was annexed to Greek Kingdom with the rest of the Ionian islands in 1864.

Since antiquity, Ithaca has been identified as the home of the mythological hero Odysseus.

Second, the words "farthest out to sea, towards the sunset" are usually interpreted to mean that Ithaca must be the island furthest to the west, but Kefalonia lies to the west of Ithaca.

Coins from Ithaca frequently portray Odysseus, and an inscription from the 3rd century BC refers to a local hero-shrine of Odysseus and games called the Odysseia.

Ithaca is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit.

The municipality, unchanged at the Kallikratis reform, includes islets other than Ithaca including two near Cape Melissa, Arkoudi and Atokos to the northeast and the numerous islets in the Echinades Island group to the east near the mainland of Aetolia-Acarnania.