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"text": "Since Lesvos is mainly a mountainous area and sometimes lacks sufficient water, the Lesvian agriculture is characterised by terrace-cultivation.",
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"ref": "2014, Sharon Inkelas, The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, Oxford University Press, page 356",
"text": "For example, in a discussion of the Lesvian dialect of Greek which is otherwise devoted to documenting Paradigm Uniformity effects, Gafos and Ralli mention that the usual rule of unstressed high vowel deletion fails to apply when the deletion would result in a loss of morphological information.",
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"text": "There home in the Hyde Park neighborhood was the site or weekly rehearsals and dinners that were a perfect encapsulation of this meeting of Mediterranean socialities, Ottoman-era modal dance music preceded by home-cooked Italian and Greek delicacies and accompanied by Lesvian ouzo.",
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"ref": "1999, Ann Blackman, Seasons of Her Life, Scribner, pages 185–186",
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"ref": "2013, Jason A. Tipton, Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals, Springer International Publishing, page vii",
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"text": "The move won us the sympathy and devotion of the Lesvians, especially the Mytilinians.",
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"text": "Dean, whose maternal grandparents migrated in the early twentieth century from the island of Lesvos to Lynn, Massachusetts, an industrial city north of Boston with a large population of Anatolian Greeks, plays the santouri, the trapezoidal hammered dulcimer that Lesvians consider the instrument most emblematic of their island's traditional music.",
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"ref": "2022, Sophie Streeting, Melting Pot, novum premium Verlag, page 12",
"text": "Hospitable Lesvians and refugees with smiling eyes, with longing, with hope, optimism, and desire to show us a piece of home.",
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},
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"ref": "2013, Jason A. Tipton, Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals, Springer International Publishing, page vii",
"text": "Among the Lesvians, Hjalmar Dahm and Georgios Sitaras offered invaluable logistical assistance and field help.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2015, George A. Rados, Makedonia, iUniverse",
"text": "The move won us the sympathy and devotion of the Lesvians, especially the Mytilinians.",
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},
{
"ref": "2021, Panayotis League, Echoes of the Great Catastrophe, University of Michigan Press, page 2",
"text": "Dean, whose maternal grandparents migrated in the early twentieth century from the island of Lesvos to Lynn, Massachusetts, an industrial city north of Boston with a large population of Anatolian Greeks, plays the santouri, the trapezoidal hammered dulcimer that Lesvians consider the instrument most emblematic of their island's traditional music.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Sophie Streeting, Melting Pot, novum premium Verlag, page 12",
"text": "Hospitable Lesvians and refugees with smiling eyes, with longing, with hope, optimism, and desire to show us a piece of home.",
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