Greek fire information

Greek fire was an incendiary chemical weapon manufactured in and used by the Eastern Roman Empire from the seventh through the fourteenth centuries. The...

Greek fires and similar terms may refer to: Fires in Greece Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 2007 Greek forest fires 2009 Greek forest fires 2012 Chios...

Greek forest fires may refer to: 2007 Greek forest fires 2009 Greek forest fires 2012 Chios Forest Fire Greek fires (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

turbines. The use of fire in warfare has a long history. Fire was the basis of all early thermal weapons. The Byzantine fleet used Greek fire to attack ships...

The 2007 Greek forest fires were a series of massive forest fires that broke out in several areas across Greece throughout the summer of 2007. The most...

utilised as army strategy. Incendiary mixtures, such as the petroleum-based Greek fire, could be launched by throwing machines or administered through a siphon...

of deities in fire worship. Nyambe, god of the sun, fire and change Nzambi Mpungu (Kalûnga), god of the sun, fire, sky and change Ra, fire god of the sun...

The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas...

of smoke. Greece portal List of wildfires 2007 Greek forest fires 2009 Greek forest fires 2009 Mediterranean wildfires 2012 Chios Forest Fire 2018 Attica...

The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries...

The Holy Fire (Greek: Ἃγιον Φῶς, "Holy Light") is a ceremony that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Great Saturday...

(1960), A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder, Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer & Sons. Partington, J. R. (1999), A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder, Baltimore:...

Battle of Cape Bon (468). The invention of Greek fire in 673 increased the use of fire ships, at first by the Greeks and afterward by other nations as they...

than three years after the Greek landing of troops at Smyrna. Estimated Greek and Armenian deaths resulting from the fire range from 10,000 to 125,000...

Hellenic Fire Service (Greek: Πυροσβεστικό Σώμα, romanized: Pyrosvestiko Soma - Firefighting Uniformed Corps of Greece) is the national fire and rescue...

flamethrower. Byzantines also used ceramic hand grenades filled with Greek fire. Greek fire, used primarily at sea, gave the Byzantines a substantial military...

flames, and were therefore harder to put out, similar to Greek fire. However unlike Greek fire, gunpowder's physical properties are solid rather than liquid...

sculpture, Olympic Games, Western philosophy, ancient Greek law, Greek mythology, Greek food and the Greek Alphabet. The following is a list of inventions,...

Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the...

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...

and Military History”. ABC-CLIO. Page 450. "Greek Fire Grenades". World History Encyclopedia. "Greek Fire". World History Encyclopedia. Decker, Michael...

mostly Greek and Egyptian, but also Jewish, Persian, Phoenician scholars. Most of the mathematical texts written in Greek have been found in Greece, Egypt...

Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton University Press 2000; rev. 2011) — ISBN 0-691-08977-9 Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion...

The 2009 Greek forest fires were a series of massive wildfires that broke out across several areas in Greece during the summer of 2009. The fires began in...

Toothbrush in China during the Tang Dynasty 672: Greek fire in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire: Greek fire, an incendiary weapon likely based on petroleum...

olive oil (Mishnah Shabbat 2). In Ancient Greek, it was used to refer to any sort of petroleum or pitch. The Greek word νάφθα designates one of the materials...