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Maina
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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'MAINACapo D'Istria, Count), who was in revenge murdered by the Mavromichelis. The family were finally content to become courtiers and officials in the reign of King Otto I. In the 19th century Maina was but little affected by civilization, except in so far as the efficiency of modern navies debarred the Mainotes from their old resource of piracy.
See W. Martin Leake, Travels in the Morea (1830); M. E. Yemeniz, " La Maina," in Revue des deux mondes (March I, 1865); and Philipson, " Zur Ethnographie des Peloponnes," in Petermanns Mittheilungen, vol. 36 (Gotha).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Maina'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/maina.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Maina'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/maina.html. 1910.
