Lithakia
Overview
 
Lithakia is a village in the southern part of the island of Zakynthos
Zakynthos
Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...

. Its 2001 population was 1,171.

Lithakia is located between 10 km south-southwest of the town of Zakynthos, south of Laganas
Laganas
Laganas is a town and a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Zakynthos, of which it is a municipal unit. Laganas is north of Keri and south-southeast of Volimes. The municipal unit of Laganás...

 and south-southeast of Volimes
Volimes
Volimes, is a village in the northwestern part of the island of Zakynthos. It was the seat of the municipality of Elatia. Its 2001 population was 939 for the district, and 627 for the village.-Settlements:*Volimes, pop. 627*Agios Nikolaos, pop. 42...

. Lithakia are connected with the GR-35 linking with the airport and the town and another linking the two north and south extremities of the island along with the town of Volimes
Volimes
Volimes, is a village in the northwestern part of the island of Zakynthos. It was the seat of the municipality of Elatia. Its 2001 population was 939 for the district, and 627 for the village.-Settlements:*Volimes, pop. 627*Agios Nikolaos, pop. 42...

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Lithakia is situated in the southern part of the island and are filled up with hills, the sea is to the east and the remainder are made up of grasslands, farmlands are within the villages and the northeast.
Lithakia was ruled by the Venetians until the Napolenic Wars when it was controlled and ruled by the French
France
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 until the British
United Kingdom
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 invasion near the end, the Russia
Russia
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ns and the Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 Turks
Turkey
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 also ruled during the wars, though the Septinsular Republic
Septinsular Republic
The Septinsular Republic was an island republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands. It was the first time Greeks had been granted even limited self-government since the fall of the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans in the...

 was autonomous.
Quotations

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts.

I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? … Yeah. We all need memories to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different … now … where was I?

Your life is over. You're a dead man. The only thing the doctors are hoping to do is teach you to be less of a burden to the orderlies. And they'll probably never let you go home, wherever that would be. So the question is not "to be or not to be", because you aren't. The question is whether you want to do something about it.

From "Memento Mori", by Jonathan Nolan, as quoted on the DVD

 
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