© Melina-Verlag, Ratingen 1998

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The work has also been published in a German edition .

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Cover picture : Fresco with the founders of the Archangel Michael Church in Pedoulas : Papacharalambos Chouris

Organisation, photos(cf. Individual illustration credits), plan of the location of the churches and monasteries : Ewald Hein

Layout, editing of the descriptions of the churches, author of the introductory section, appendix: Dr. Brigitte Kleidt

Translation : John M. Deasy

Lithos : Basis Druck , Duisburg

Printed by : MA-TISK d.d., Maribor , Slovenia