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33 unusual facts about Greece


Ardani, Trikala

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

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.

August von Gödrich

He placed second in the 87 kilometre race from Athens to Marathon and back, finishing in 3:42:18 behind Aristidis Konstantinidis of Greece.

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.

Greek Marble Initiative

The Greek Marble Initiative is the first sculpture symposium in Greece, organized in 2013.

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.

Kalyves

In classical and Byzantine times, Kalives is the likely site of Kissamos, one of the ancient city of Aptera's two harbours.

Kampanos

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

Kornos, Greece

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

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.

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.

It's a part of the Municipality of Petaloudes.

Middle East Theatre of World War II

The British Middle East Command was based in Cairo with responsibility for Commonwealth operations in the Middle East and North Africa, and also those in East Africa, Persia, and the Balkans, including Greece.

Mylopotamos

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

Nea Mesimvria

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

Neraidochori

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

Pappadiana

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

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.

Sfakera

Sfakera, is a village, on the north coast of the island of Corfu, Greece.

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.

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.

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.


1995 World Marathon Cup

The 1995 World Marathon Cup was the 6th edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Athens, Greece.

2012 Men's European Volleyball League

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

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

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.

Blasphemy law

In December 2003, Greece prosecuted for blasphemy Gerhard Haderer, an Austrian, along with his Greek publisher and four booksellers.

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).

Dafni Indoor Hall

Dafni Indoor Hall (also known as Michalis Mouroutsos Indoor Hall) is an indoor basketball sporting arena that is located in the district of Dafni, Attica, which is about 3 km from the downtown center of the city of Athens, Greece.

Damatria

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

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

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.

Elisabeta Palace

The palace was designed in 1930 by the architect Marcu and built in 1936 for Princess Elisabeta, the former queen of Greece and sister of King Carol II.

ESN KAPA Athens

It was established in 2008, it is a member of ESN Greece and ESN International and its members are students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens that have participated in the Erasmus program and they want to voluntarily contribute in the quick adjustment of their foreign fellow students both in the University and the Greek Society.

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.

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.

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.

George Christopher

Born George Christophes in Arcadia, Greece, the son of James Christophes and Mary Koines Christophes, Christopher and his family emigrated to the United States in 1910 and settled in San Francisco's South of Market Street neighborhood, then known as "Greektown", when Christopher was two years old.

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.

It's a Long Road

It is a triptyque, but all three parts take place in Thrace, one of the more economically desolate places in Greece.

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 Otfried Müller

J. W. Donaldson, “On the Life and Writings of Karl Otfried Müller” in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, vol.

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.

Laurium, Michigan

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

Mad River

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

Michalis Kakiouzis

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

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

Nessonas

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

Nicholas Lambrinides

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

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.

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.

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 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.

To Fili Tis Zois

It also contains a bonus feature introducing the landscapes and hotels of the island Sifnos, Greece.

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.

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.

Young Engineers' Satellite 2

The centres were: Samara State Aerospace University, Russia (mission analysis, GPS); University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (re-entry capsule); Hochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld, Germany (tether); University of Patras, Greece (mechanical and thermal).