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unusual facts about Hellenic


Banks Setlhodi

He was nicknamed "Banks" after 1966 World Cup winner and former Hellenic goalkeeper Gordon Banks, when he saved a fierce penalty kick from the British XI's Rod Marsh.


Agras

Tellos Agras (1880-1907), officer of the Hellenic Army who played a prominent role during the Greek Struggle for Macedonia

Alekos

Alekos Alavanos (born 1950), Greek politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament

Ancient Greek philosophy

Loudovikos, Nikolaos, Protopresbyter, Theological History of the Ancient Hellenic Philosophy - Presocratics, Socrates, Plato (in Greek), Pournaras Publishing, Athens, 2003, ISBN 960-242-296-3

ANEK Lines

On June 8, 2011 ANEK Lines and Superfast Ferries created a joint venture in Piraeus-Heraklion and Patra-Igoumenitsa-Ancona routes with two RO-PAX ships in the first one (the ANEK-owned "Olympic Champion" and the Superfast-owned "Superfast XII") and three in the second one (the ANEK-owned "Hellenic Spirit" and the Superfast-owned "Superfast VI" and "Superfast XI").

Bertha of Sulzbach

As an introduction for her to the Hellenic culture she was marrying into, John Tzetzes wrote his Allegories on the Iliad.

CHTO

It is owned by Canadian Hellenic Toronto Radio Inc., which is run by John Maniatakos, son of Peter Maniatakos who owns Odyssey Television Network.

Cypria

Then follow the death of Palamedes, the plan of Zeus to relieve the Trojans by detaching Achilles from the Hellenic confederacy, and a catalogue

Democratic Army of Greece

At the same time, the Hellenic Army, advised by the British up to 1947 and afterwards by US military delegation led by General James Van Fleet, US Army, established the Greek government's position in the rest of the country as well as internationally.

Deutsche Telekom

DT also holds shares in the Hellenic telecommunication operator OTE, which also have shares in several other companies like the mobile operators Cosmote Greece, Cosmote Romania, Globul Bulgaria, AMC Albania, the IT&C retailer Germanos, and the Romanian telecommunication operator Romtelecom.

Floris Italicae lingue libri novem

However, those Hellenic suggestions that Monosini made in his lexicon, one may take them for correct within an Indo-European perspective.

Greek corvette Loudovikos

Loudovikos was a corvette of the Hellenic Navy built in 1838 at the Poros Naval Shipyard, designed by naval architect Georgios Tombazis.

Hellenic Airlines

Hellenic Airlines was a joint-operation with Scottish Aviation, Ltd., which took a 40% stake in the company and the Greek state and armed forces jointly held 60% of the company.

Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

Archbishop Demetrios of America, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

Hellenic Cup

The Hellenic Cup Tournament trophy is housed in the Museum of National Centre for Hellenic Studies & Research at La Trobe University, Bundoora.

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.

Hellenic Navy

The motto of the Hellenic Navy is "Μέγα το της Θαλάσσης Κράτος" from Thucydides' account of Pericles' oration on the eve of the Peloponnesian War.

Hellenic Television

New Hellenic Television, second television network of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

HSC Hellenic Wind

HSC Hellenic Wind (yard number 6000) is a high-speed craft (HSC) owned by Hellenic Seaways, having previously being owned by Sea Containers.

Igoumenitsa

The Patras, Greece to Brindisi, Italy car–ferry ships of the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines (HML) stop at Igoumenitsa, before crossing the Adriatic Sea and vice versa, as well as the ships of Superfast Ferries, ANEK Lines and several other shipping companies, before going to Ancona, Bari or Venice in Italy, and vice versa.

Isaac Hollister Hall

Following the scanty clues given by George Smith and Samuel Birch, and working on the data furnished by the di Cesnola collection, he succeeded about 1874 in deciphering an entire Cypriote inscription, and in establishing the Hellenic character of the dialect and the syllabic nature of the script.

Leuctra

The Spartan hegemony was fallen after that battle, and the Thebans became a new power within the Hellenic world, until the rise of Macedon.

Maritzburg F.C.

First, qualifying for the 1963 promotion play-offs only to miss promotion by a single point vis-a-vis Hellenic, and again in 1966, losing the southern play-off final against Westview Apollon from Port Elizabeth.

Marmara Island

Stories and legends identify the island as a visiting place of Jason and the Argonauts and with the Hellenic expedition against Troy.

Navy General Staff

The Hellenic Navy General Staff, the general staff of the Hellenic Navy, the naval component of the Greek Armed Forces, active from 1907 to 1941 and since 1944

Niki-class destroyer

During World War I, these ships were seized by the French Navy when Greece did not enter the war on the side of the allies, and were returned to the Hellenic Royal Navy in 1917 when Greece declared war.

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria

In 2002 he was transferred to the Holy Metropolis of Zimbabwe, where he established four missionary centres in Harare, a Hellenic Cultural Centre for 400 delegates, two large missionary centres in Malawi, with a hospital, technical schools and nursery schools.

Paul MacKendrick

Starting with the Troy and Heinrich Schliemann's excavations, the reader is told of accounts of excavations of major centers of the Hellenic world, including the story of Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B.

Regions of ancient Greece

The regions of ancient Greece were areas identified by the ancient Greeks as geographical sub-divisions of the Hellenic world.

Roman infantry tactics

The campaigns of Alexander, and Pyrrhus (a Hellenic-style formation of mixed contingents) show this.

Southern Italy

Many of the new Hellenic cities became very rich and powerful, like Neapolis (Νεάπολις, Naples, "New City"), Syracuse, Acragas, and Sybaris (Σύβαρις).

SS Kurtuluş

Foodstuffs were collected by a nationwide campaign of Kızılay (Turkish Red Crescent) and the operation was mainly funded by the American Greek War Relief Association and the Hellenic Union of Constantinopolitans.

Steven Karidoyanes

:"Café Neon owes its form and existence to the 20th century Hungarian composer, Zoltán Kodály. When I first conducted Kodály's Galánta Dances I was immediately taken by the music's passion and color and wished there was a Greek equivalent which would gratify my Hellenic heritage. Café Neon now fills that personal void."

The Icemark Chronicles

The Hellenic (see Greeks) fleet uses a type of incendiary that "burns even on water", called Hellenic Fire; this could be none other than the famous (or infamous) Greek fire.

The Magic of Reality

These myths are chosen from all across the world including Babylonian, Judeo-Christian, Aztec, Maori, Ancient Egyptian, Australian Aboriginal, Nordic, Hellenic, Chinese, Japanese, and other traditions.

Universal Combat Platform T-99

The name designation of this tank (or more correctly "prospective family of heavy unified battlefield platforms" - "перспективный ряд тяжёлых унифицированных платформ поля боя") "Armata" is the plural of the Hellenic (Greek) word "arma"(άρμα) which means weapon and was an old Russian word for early guns.

Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir

William Mitchell Ramsay, "The Rock Necropoleis of Phrygia", Journal of Hellenic Studies 3, 1882.


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