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43 unusual facts about Greece


Aes rude

The Italian economy of the time (late middle first millennium BC) was based on a bronze standard (unlike the silver standards in use in contemporary Greece, the Aeginetan standard and its competitor the Attic standard).

Alex Andrianopoulos

Andrianopoulos was born in Tselepakou in Tripoli, Greece, and was educated in the St Albans area of Victoria, his family having migrated to Australia in 1965.

Antichasia

The mountain range gave its name to the municipal unit Antichasia in the western Larissa regional unit.

Archaeological Museum of Andros

The museum contains artifacts from the geometric settlement at Zagora, sculptures dating from the Archaic to the Roman period, a collection of inscriptions and sculptures dating to the Proto-Byzantine and Byzantine periods

Ardani, Trikala

Ardani (Greek: Αρδάνι) is a village in the municipal unit of Paliokastro in the Trikala regional unit, Greece.

Aristidis Konstantinidis

He won the road race, covering the 87 kilometres from Athens to Marathon and back in a time of 3:22:31 despite his bicycle breaking down shortly after turning around and him falling during the return trip.

Association for Childhood Education International

During World War II, ACEI sent books, toys, and curriculum materials to teachers and children in Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Italy.

Athens Lawn Tennis Club

The Athens Lawn Tennis Club is a tennis club founded in Athens, Greece in 1895.

Attica Province

Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Acharnes, Dionysos, Kropia, Lavreotiki, Marathon, Markopoulo Mesogaias, Oropos, Paiania, Pallini (except the municipal unit Gerakas), Rafina-Pikermi, Saronikos, Spata-Artemida and Fyli.

Avlona, Karpathos

Avlona (Greek: Αυλώνα) is a small village (pop. 16 in 2001) in Greece, on the island Karpathos, which is one of the Dodecanese islands.

Burnum

And because they both had separated, but those story was never forgotten, the names remained in memory in Argyra and Selemnos near Korinth and in Argyruntum and Zrmanja.

Egremni

As it's very close to the better known Porto Katsiki beach, follow the road leading to the latter along the west coast of the island and you'll notice the way leading to Egremni which is visibly signaled after the nearest settlement of Athani.

Gonia

Gonia (Greek: Γωνιά) is a picturesque village in the Rethymno regional unit in Crete, Greece, lying at an altitude of ca 222 m amsl, about 10km southwest of the town of Rethymno.

Grizano

Grizano (Greek: Γριζάνο) is a village in the Trikala regional unit, Greece, part of the Farkadona municipality.

HAT LS2

HAT LS2 (designation standing for "Landplane, Single engine, 2-seater) is a light airplane developed by Hellenic Aeronautical Technologies (HAT), a small Greek manufacturer of aerospace components.

Hurshid Pasha

In November 1820, he was named mora valisi, governor of the Morea Eyalet (the Peloponnese), with seat at Tripoli and serasker of the expedition against the rebellious Ali Pasha of Yanina.

Ifigeneia Giannopoulou

Ifigeneia Giannopoulou (1964 – June 24, 2004) was a Greek songwriter.

Kampanos

Kampanos (Greek: Καμπανός) is a community and a village in Chania regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece.

Kissos

It is located 3 km west of Mouresi, 5 km southeast of Zagora and 17 km east of the city of Volos (Magnesia's capital).

Kornos, Greece

Administratively it belongs to the municipal unit of Myrina, the capital of Lemnos.

Land of Gods

Greece is referred to as the land of the Gods in Greek literature and mythology.

Limnes

Limnes is a traditional Cretan small village in Lasithi, Crete, Greece, located 10 km from Agios Nikolaos.

Lourdata

Lourdata is a village on the island of Cephalonia, Greece.

Middle East Theatre of World War II

While the fighting was taking place in Libya, Axis forces were attacking Greece.

Moudania

Moudania, Greece, a municipal unit in Chalkidiki, Greece, named after Mudanya

Mouresi

The village Mouresi lies at 310 m elevation, 1.5 km northwest of Tsagkarada, 2 km southeast of Agios Dimitrios and 7 km southeast of Zagora.

Nea Mesimvria

Nea Mesimvria is an area in the suburbs of the city of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Nessonas

Nessonas (Greek: Νέσσωνας) is a former municipality in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece.

Nicholas Hartwig

Hartwig was a key figure in the formation of the system of alliances formed in 1912 between Serbia and Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro (the Balkan League).

Nova Olímpia

There are places that have the name Nova Olímpia (Portuguese meaning New Olympia, probably named after Olympia or is probably named after Maria Olímpia Rodrigues Vieria in São Paulo which is related, the origin is uncertain) in Brazil

Palaiochouni

It is 2 km east of Mallota, 3 km west of Athinaio, 7 km east of Megalopoli and 19 km southwest of Tripoli.

Pastida

Pastida is a tiny village on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Patriarch Callinicus IV of Constantinople

In January 1761 he escaped and returned on the slay in Istanbul, where he obtained to be forgiven and in October 1763 he returned to his birth town, Zagora.

Pirama, Chios

It is the only settlement of the eponymous community, part of the municipal unit Amani.

Skotino cave

The cave lies high on a hill northwest of the village of Skotino, a few kilometers inland south of Gouves.

Sykia, Larissa

Sykia (Greek: Συκιά or Συκέα) is a village and a community in the western part of the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece.

Theisoa

Theisoa, Greece, a village in the municipal unit of Andritsaina, Elis, Greece

Theologos, Rhodes

Theologos (also known as Tholos): is a village on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Thessaloniki–Bitola railway

The railway from Thessaloniki to Bitola is a 219-kilometre long railway line, that connects the port city Thessaloniki in Greece with Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia, via Veroia, Edessa, Amyntaio and Florina.

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (3 April 1910, Headington Hill near Oxford – 25 March 1982, Tolo, Greece) was an English Marxist historian of Africa "who did more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" in the UK.

Tolon

Tolo, Greece (Tolon), a village near Nafplio in the Peloponnese

Verdikousa

Verdikousa (Greek: Βερδικούσα) is a village and a former community in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece.

Wireless Amateur Network of Amaliada

There are over 40 similar communities in other cities of Greece, a statistic information that makes Greece a pioneer in wireless networking.


2012 Men's European Volleyball League

The tournament was played at New Indoor Sport Hall, Katerini, Greece.

Aiolou Street

Aiolou Street (Greek: Οδός Αιóλου) (also Eolou Street) is a street in downtown Athens, the Greek capital.

Alphonso de Spina

Thought by many to be a convert from Judaism, Alphonso de Spina was for many years superior of the House of Studies of the Friars Minor at Salamanca, and in 1491 was created Bishop of Thermopylae in Greece.

Apostasia

Apostasia of 1965, a series of political events in Greece, which toppled the legally elected government of George Papandreou, senior

Aristomenes of Alyzia

Aristomenes, son of Menneas, was a native of the city of Alyzia in Acarnania, Greece.

Bérengère Schuh

In the first round of elimination, she faced 34th-ranked Elpida Romantzi of Greece.

Charles Jacque

Jacque also provided the illustrations for numerous books, in particular the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith; The Indian Cottage, a novella published with Paul et Virginie; Picturesque Greece by Christopher Wordsworth; the Works of Shakespeare; and Ancient and Modern Versailles by Alexandre de Laborde.

Constantinos Decavallas

On returning to Greece, he worked on the Asteras tourist complex in Glyfada, then at the Ministry of Public Works in charge of the reconstruction of Santorini.

Costas Evangelatos

Kimon Friar translated in English, when Evangelatos was in the States, some emotional poems of him from the collection Alea Prosomoion published under the title In the small mirror (2003) in Greece (APOPEIRA editions).

Don't Tell the Bride

They are: Australia, Denmark (TV 2, 2009–), Finland (Liv), Greece & Cyprus (ANT1, 2011), Germany (RTL II, 2011–), Ireland (RTE, 2010–), Italy (Lei), Norway (TLC Norway), Poland (TLC Poland, 2011), Sweden (TV4), Turkey and United States.

Edward Rooker

Among Rooker's early works are a view on the Thames from Somerset House (1750), and a view of Vauxhall Gardens (1751), both after Canaletto; a view of the Parthenon for Dalton's 'Views of Sicily and Greece' (1751), and a section of St. Paul's Cathedral, decorated according to the

Ekpombi

Ekpombi (Broadcast) is an album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 2001.

Ektos Programmatos

Ektos Programmatos (Off The Road) is a live album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki and it was released in 1998 by Polygram Greece.

Ephraim of Nea Makri

Following these dreams, a body believed to be that of the saint was found in the ground near the nun's hermitage, on the site of an abandoned medieval monastery on the slopes of Mount Amomon, near the town of Nea Makri, in Attica, Greece.

First Hellenic Republic

The Fifth National Assembly at Nafplion drafted a new royal constitution, while the three "Protecting Powers" (Great Britain, France and Russia) intervened, declaring Greece a Kingdom in the London Conference of 1832, with the Bavarian Prince Otto of Wittelsbach as king.

Franck Rolling

After his release from Bournemouth, Rolling was briefly on the books of Gillingham F.C. and Wycombe Wanderers F.C., before leaving England to try his luck with SK Vorwärts Steyr of Austria (who went into bankruptcy during the season) and Veria F.C. of Greece.

Fuerte Olimpo

During José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia government it was called Fuerte Olimpo, maybe because of the main Cerro (hill) which was said to resemble Mount Olimpus in ancient Greece.

George P. Chrousos

Chrousos was born in Patras, Greece, attended the University of Athens Medical School and finished as the valedictorian of his class in 1975.

Georgia Lara

She participated at the 2008 Women's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier in Imperia, where Greece finished 4th and qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Godswar

GodsWar Online, from Internet Gaming Gate and set in ancient Greece

Ithaca Creek

Ithaca in Greece has one of the world's largest natural harbours and is famous in legend as Homer's Ithaca, the home of Ulysses, whose delayed return to the island is one of the plot elements of the Odyssey.

John William Donaldson

Of his numerous other works the most important are The Theatre of the Greeks; The History of the Literature of ancient Greece (a translation and completion of Otfried Müller's unfinished work); editions of the Odes of Pindar and the Antigone of Sophocles; a Hebrew, a Greek and a Latin grammar.

Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels

After his father's death he succeeded him as master of his estates at Ehrenfels, but in early 1822, along with other philhellenes, he sailed to Greece to assist the Greek rebels in their uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

Kynos

Kynos or Cynus (Ancient Greek: Κύνος) is an ancient settlement site with finds of the Bronze and Early Iron Age, which was discovered on the edge of the town of Livanates in Central Greece.

Live apo to Gyalino Mousiko Theatro

Eleftheria Arvanitaki - Live apo to Gyalino Mousiko Theatro is a live album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 2002 by Universal Music Greece.

Malaxa

Malaxa, Crete, a village in the Chania regional unit on Crete, Greece

Meliae

The species of ash in the mountains of Greece is the Manna-ash (Fraxinus ornus).

Mira

Evidence that the variability of Mira was known in ancient China, Babylon or Greece is at best only circumstantial.

Monodendri

Monodendri, Achaea, part of the municipal unit of Vrachnaiika, Achaea, Greece

Nicholas Lambrinides

Born a Greek in Kastoria, Greece, Lambrinides emigrated to the States in 1912 at the age of 33.

Oi Thalassies oi Hadres

It also demonstrates the liberation of women, as part of the feministic ideology that arrives in Greece, as the main female character of the movie is a young woman from the upper class, who forms her own cohort along with her female friends and brings new mores in an old-fashioned local society.

Paul Dombrecht

He is a professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and regularly teaches masterclasses in Spain, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Greece and Israel.

Pogon

Pogoni, a municipality in Ioannina regional unit, Greece

Prikeba Phipps

Prikeba ("Keba") Reed Phipps (born June 30, 1969 in Lakewood, California) is a retired volleyball player from the United States, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Princess Irene

Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904 – 1974), daughter of Constantine I of Greece and his wife, the former Princess Sophie of Prussia

Rheine-Bentlage Air Base

Since then helicopters from Rheine saw action in as different places as Italy, Greece and the Pyrenees mainly by offering help and logistic support after natural disasters.

Robert Tilney

On 5 November 1943 Tilney was appointed to command the British forces on the Greek island of Leros, replacing Major-General F.G.R. Brittorous.

Sanyog Mohite

The film was also screened at Ecofilms, Rodos International Film & Visual Arts Festival 2010 in Rhodes, Greece.

Siege of Tobruk

On 6 April, Lieutenant-General Philip Neame—by that time the military governor of Cyrenaica (Wilson had been sent to command W Force in Greece)—withdrew his headquarters to Tmimi, west of Tobruk.

Simon Schama's Power of Art

It aired in Poland on TVP2 in February and March 2008, on PBS in the US and re -broadcast in September 2008 on TVOntario in Canada, ABC1 in Australia, Australia Network in the Asia-Pacific region, TV ONE in New Zealand and on ET1 in Greece.

Skoutari

Skoutari, Laconia, a village in the southwestern part of Laconia, Greece

SMS Wacht

Wilhelm II also stopped in Greece, where he attended the wedding of his sister Sophie to the Greek crown prince Constantine.

Stephen Antonakos

Antanakos' work has been included in several important international exhibitions including Documenta 6 in 1977 in Kassel, Germany and he represented Greece at the Venice Biennale in 1997.

Tasmanian Devil: Munching Madness

Players take control of Taz to eat all the food in each of the nine levels - Tasmania, Australia, China, Greece, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Amazon River, Las Vegas and Transylvania.

The Io Passion

The man and the woman met at Lerna in Greece, the venue of one of the Mysteries of the ancient world, and the place where Zeus seduced the priestess Io and turned her into a heifer to hide her from his jealous wife, Hera.

The Spicy Effect

The Spicy Effect, commonly referred to as Spicy or Spicy Music, is a Greek independent record label founded in 2009 by songwriter and record producer Phoebus, in association with the investment arm of Nea Tileorasi.

Thomas Gernon

His work on the internal structure of volcanoes also takes him to many active volcanoes around the world, including those of Iceland, Italy, Greece, and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

The Socialist Party spoke highly of the success of Die Linke in Germany, the New Anticapitalist Party in France and Coalition of the Radical Left in Greece.

United States Post Office-Visalia Town Center Station

Following with Art Deco tradition, the architect drew heavy inspiration from a multitude of sources, including Mesoamerica, Greece, Rome, and Egypt.

VP-8

From February to August 2003, VP-8 deployed to NAF Sigonella and Souda Bay, Crete, to provide 24-hour P-3 support for the two carrier battle groups in the Mediterranean during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), flying nearly 100 overland combat missions and over 4,000 flight hours from Italy, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Senegal.