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45 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, Greece

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

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.

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.

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's road race

It was 87 kilometres long, with contestants cycling to the city of Marathon and back.

Damatria

Damatria is a village on Greek island of Rhodes, located on the west coast, about 20 km far from the capital.

Democratic elements of Roman Republic

Antony received all the richer provinces in the east, namely Achaea, Macedonia and Epirus (roughly modern Greece), Bithynia, Pontus and Asia (roughly modern Turkey), Syria, Cyprus and Cyrenaica and he was very close to Ptolemaic Egypt, then the richest state of all.

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.

Heros: The Sanguine Seven

These five escapees have eluded authorities successfully, recruited many villains into their army of mass terror and destruction, and have wreaked havoc all over the city of Megalopolis.

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.

Inchoatia inchoata

Range: The type locality is "Louros-Durchbruch nahe Ay. Yeoryios bei Arta", Louros gorge (of the Louros river) near Ay.

Karkinagri

Karkinagri is a village near the southwestern tip of the Aegean island of Ikaria, 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.

Kounoupidiana

Kounoupidiana is a village in Crete, Greece, part of the municipal unit of Akrotiri.

Limnes

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

London Olympics

The 1908 Summer Olympics (the Games of the IV Olympiad) were the fourth modern Olympic Games and the third to be hosted outside of Athens, Greece.

Lourdata

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

Maritsa, Rhodes

Maritsa is a village situated on west coast of the island of Rhodes, Greece, about 17 km far from the capital, between Kremasti and Psinthos.

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.

Mylopotamos

Mylopotamos, Drama, a village in the Drama regional unit, part of the Drama municipality

Neraidochori

Neraidochori, is a small mountain village in the municipal unit Aithikes, Trikala regional unit, Greece.

Olímpia

Olímpia is not named after the ancient town in Greece (see Olympia, Greece), but from Maria Olímpia Rodrigues Vieira, daughter of the politician Dr. Antônio Olímpio Rodrigues Vieira, one of those responsible for the founding of the city.

Palaiochouni

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

Pappadiana

Pappadiana (Greek: Παππαδιανά) is a community in the municipal unit of Keramia, Chania regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece.

Parapotamos, Larissa

Parapotamos (Greek: Παραπόταμος Λάρισας) is a settlement of the municipal unit of Makrychori, which is part of the municipality of Tempi, northern Greece.

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.

Constantine Mavrikios (Callinicus is his religious name) was born in Zagora, Greece in 1713 and in 1728 he moved to Istanbul.

PEKA

PEKA, "Politiki Epitropi Kypriakou Agona" (The Political Committee of the Cypriot Struggle), was the political wing of the EOKA movement which fought against the British and Turkish Cypriots for the union of Cyprus with Greece between 1955 and 1959.

Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways

SPAP also acquired the line between Myloi (near Argos) and Kalamata via Tripoli, from the bankrupt Southern Greece Railways (Sidirodromoi Mesimbrinis Ellados).

Piraikos Syndesmos

Piraikos Syndesmos or simply Piraikos is one of the oldest sports clubs in Greece, based in Piraeus.

Pirama, Chios

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

Porphy no Nagai Tabi

Focuses on features a Greek boy named Porphyras Patagos (more fondly known as Porphy) and his sister Mina, who have been orphaned after a devastating earthquake which destroyed their home in Greece.

Rudolf von Eschwege

Eschwege began 1917 with a new unit, FA 30; he also began it, on 9 January, with another victory when he downed a Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12 at his home airfield at Drama, Greece.

Skotino cave

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

Stilos

The land to the north between Stylos and Megala Chorafia is believed to be an important Minoan site, possibly associated with Aptera, or maybe ancient Aptera itself.

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.

Tsagkarada

Tsagkarada is located 1.5 km southeast of Mouresi, 3 km north of Xorychti, 9 km southeast of Zagora and about 20 km east of the city of Volos (Magnesia's capital).

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.


Akte

Mount Athos, a mountain in northern Greece, known as Akte in Classical times.

Amarynthos

Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs, Marietta Giannakou, ordered the ministry to investigate whether the decision by the school's teachers' council was legal, and the girl and her mother were received by Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, with the latter citing the Church's solidarity towards the family.

Anavryti, Laconia

Anavryti (alternate spellings include: Anavriti) is a small village in Laconia, Greece, located at 850m on Taygetus mountain.

Apostasia

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

Ayios Nikolaos Station

Ayios Nikolaos or Agios Nikolaos is a very common place name in Greece and Cyprus; it is Greek for "Saint Nicholas".

Bérengère Schuh

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

Boian culture

The culture's geographical extent went as far west as the Jiu River on the border of Transylvania in south-central Romania, as far north as the Chilia branch of the Danube Delta along the Romanian border with Ukraine and the coast of the Black Sea, and as far south as the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Christos Bourbos

In 2006–2007, Llorenç Serra Ferrer having 2 other Right Defenders (Nikolaos Georgeas and Martin Albano Pautasso) proposed him a loan move, at first, to Niki Volou (a Second Division team).

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.

Dimitris Raptakis

Dimitris Raptakis, (Greek: Δημήτρης Ραπτάκης; born 20 January 1988 in Heraklion, Crete), is a Greek professional football player who last played for AEL 1964.

Dragon Lake

Drakolimni, the name of several alpine or sub-alpine lakes in the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece

E65

European route E65, a north-south route connecting Malmö in Sweden and Chaniá in Greece

Ekpombi

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

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.

Fustanella

In Greece, a short version of the fustanella is worn by ceremonial military units like the Evzones, while in Albania it was worn by the Royal Guard in the interbellum era.

Georgios Kantimiris

Georgios Kantimiris (born 19 September 1982 in Rhodos), is a Greek footballer who plays for Veria F.C. in the Superleague Greece, as a Goalkeeper.

Godswar

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

Harry Lourandos

Lourandos was born in Sydney in 1945, to migrant parents from the island of Ithaca in western Greece.

Hellenic Airlines

King Paul of Greece, who had just ascended the throne, and Queen Frederika are in the background.

Hellenic Greece

Ancient Greece in the eighth through fourth centuries BC, between the Greek Dark Ages and the Hellenistic period, is referred to as Hellenic Greece.

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.

Julie K. Smith

She had an early starring role in the 1986 sex comedy Pretty Smart alongside Patricia Arquette as a rich sexpot at a private school in Greece, but her other roles in mainstream films of the late 1980s and early 1990s (The Last Boy Scout, Disorderlies) were minor.

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.

Laurium, Michigan

In 1895 the legislature changed Calumet's name to Laurium, after the famous mining town in ancient Greece.

Mad River

Erythropotamos, a river in Bulgaria and Greece known in Bulgarian as Luda reka ("Mad River")

MBS College

MBS College of Crete is an accredited private college in Heraklion, Crete, Greece established in 1979, providing Bachelor and Master degrees of Nottingham Trent University, Staffordshire University and the University of London International Programmes.

Michalis Kakiouzis

Kakiouzis began playing basketball at the age of 8, with the Ionikos New Philadelphia Youth Academy of Ionikos, Greece.

Middle East Theatre of World War II

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

Nessonas

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

Ottoman Greeks

They were concentrated in what is today modern Greece and Greek Macedonia, western Asia Minor (especially in and around Smyrni), central Anatolia (espacially Cappadocia), northeastern Anatolia (especially in Erzurum vilayet, in and around Trebizond and in the Pontic Alps (roughly corresponding to the medieval Greek kingdom of Pontus, which was situated along the southeastern shores of the Black Sea and the highlands of the interior).

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

Robert James Turnbull

Turnbull's father was Andrew Turnbull, a British physician married to a Greek wife (a native of Smyrna, where he had worked for British interests).

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.

Shabby chic

The term was coined by The World of Interiors magazine in the 1980s and became extremely popular in the US in the '90s with a certain eclectic surge of decorating styles with paints and effects, notably in metropolitan cultural centres on the West Coast of America, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, with heavy influences from Mediterranean cultures such as Provence, Tuscany and Greece.

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.

Temple of Isthmia

Furthermore, future excavations may be able to uncover more evidence on the temples relation to Doric architecture and so overall bring together a clearer picture of the changes that occurred as Greece moved on from the Iron Age into the Classical period.

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.

Themis Panou

Themis Panou is a Greek actor best known for his acting with the National Theater of Greece as well as his starring role in the film Miss Violence directed by Alexander Avranas.

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.

Tryfon Tolides

Tryfon Tolides (born Korifi Voiou, Greece) is a Greek-American poet, author of An Almost Pure Empty Walking (Penguin, 2005).

Tylösand

The Roman author Plinius, who lived during the first century AD, claims that the world's furthermost place at Thule or Tyle is the place described by the Greek Pytheas from Marseille, who travelled from the Mediterranean to the North in 300 BC.

Tyrsenian languages

If these languages could be shown to be related to Etruscan and Rhaetic, they would constitute a pre-Indo-European family stretching from (at the very least) the Aegean islands and Crete across mainland Greece and the Italian peninsula to the Alps.