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unusual facts about Northern Greece



Dobarsko

Many of the locals were merchants who bought cotton from Northern Greece and sold it in Central Europe and grazed large herds of cattle in the mountains and the plains around Drama and Serres.


see also

Akte

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

Greek bagpipes

Gaida, a type of bagpipe played in northern Greece as well as parts of Macedonia and the Balkans

Layeni

the former name of Triantafyllia, Florina, a village in the Florina regional unit, northern Greece

Nikolaus Dumba

In 1817, Nikolaus' father Stergios immigrated to Vienna from Vlasti, a city in Northern Greece, and became a merchant.

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.

Provisional Government of National Defence

Individual officers from across northern Greece began to flock to Thessaloniki, and on 2/15 September, the "National Defence" received its first substantial reinforcement, as Colonel Nikolaos Christodoulou arrived in the city with the remnants of IV Corps that had refused to surrender and instead withdrawn via Kavala and Samothrace.

Stergios Misios

He fought in several places in northern Greece, especially in the vicinity of lake Prespa, Korestia and Peristeri.

Yeniköy, Emirdağ

In 1924 following the dramatic events in the War of Asia Minor, the Greek people fled their village and came to stay in Kondariotissa, a town in Pieria in northern Greece.

Yiannis Carras

During that time he was also involved in the real estate and tourist business and bought an extended area in Sithonia, Chalkidiki peninsula in northern Greece and in 1973 he started constructing a tourist resort, known as Porto Carras, which became one of the most famous holiday resorts in Greece.