Dodecanese campaign lies in the south-eastern Aegean Sea, and had been under Italian control since the Italo-Turkish War in 1911. During Italian rule, the strategically well-placed islands became a focus of Italian colonial ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean. Rhodes, the largest of the islands, was a major military and aerial base. The island of Leros, with its excellent deep-water port of Lakki (Portolago), was transformed into a heavily fortified aeronautical base, "the Corregidor of the Mediterranean", as Benito Mussolini, the Italian leader, boasted. An early British attempt to contest Italian control of the Dodecanese, codenamed Operation Abstention, was thwarted in February 1941,
Greek Gospel of the Egyptians is difficult to tell from what group the text originated. Another comparable verse appended to the "Gospel of Thomas", probably in Egypt, reads: The so-called Second Epistle of Clement (12:2) closely paraphrases a passage that was also quoted by Clement of Alexandria (in "Stromateis" iii): The trope appears in the "Gospel of Thomas", saying (37): For a somewhat later Gnostic work assigning a prominent role to Jesus' female disciples, see "Pistis Sophia". Greek Gospel of the Egyptians The Greek "Gospel of the Egyptians" is an early Christian religious text. Its title is adopted from its opening line. The Greek Gospel