Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh Award/Byzantium Greece & Cavafy's poetry

About
This project aims to improve the Wikipedia coverage of both missing information on Greece and Byzantium Greece as well as the work of Kostantinos P. Cavafy who wrote many well-known peoms. There will also be a dive into translating articles which may not exist on Greek and English Wikipedia.

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Articles to Create

 * Alexandrian Kings ✅
 * In Sparta (poem) ✅
 * Kaisarion (poem) ✅
 * Mary Hutchison ✅
 * Myres: Alexandria 340 A.D ✅
 * An Old Man (poem)
 * Saint Thomas of Constantinople
 * Saint Helikonis of Thessaloniki

Articles to Improve

 * Byzantine Mosaics (Greek page) ✅
 * Walls of Thessaloniki ✅
 * Michael Astrapas and Eutychios (Greek page) ✅
 * Rena Vlahopoulou ✅
 * Byzantine cuisine (Greek page)
 * Slavery in Byzantine Greece

Articles to illustrate

 * Mikel Coffee (Greek page) ✅
 * Mikel Coffee Company ✅
 * Winter ✅
 * Florina ✅
 * Florina (Greek page) ✅
 * Thessaloniki ✅
 * Byzantine Mosaics (Greek page) ✅
 * Waiting for the Barbarians
 * Ithaka
 * Alexandrian Kings

Articles to Translate

 * The Melina Mercouri Award (into English)
 * Byzantine Tower of Agios Vasileios (Lagadas) (into English)
 * Byzantine Castle of Mesimerio Krikos (into English)

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