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unusual facts about Plaka, Chania



Agia Marina, Crete

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania, of which it is a community.

Aptera, Greece

The hilltop, about 150 metres above the sea, commands views of Souda Bay and the Akrotiri Peninsula to the north, the Lefka Ori (White Mountains) to the south, and Kalives and the Turkish Itzendin Castle to the east; the city of Chania is not quite visible to the west.

Armeni

Armenoi, a village in Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece

Christos Sartzetakis

His father who was serving as a police officer in Thessaloniki - where he met his mother - was Cretan, having born in Kandanos, Chania, while his mother who was born in Sklithro, Florina was Greek Macedonian

Chrysoskalitissa Monastery

Located on the south-west coast of the island, in the municipal unit Innachori, it lies some 72 kilometres south-west of Chania.

Cretan State

Eventually, in March 1905, Venizelos and his supporters gathered in the village of Therisos, in the hills near Chania, constituted a "Revolutionary Assembly", demanded political reforms and declared the "political union of Crete with Greece as a single free constitutional state" in a manifesto delivered to the consuls of the Great Powers.

E65

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

Eleftherios Venizelos, Crete

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania, of which it is a municipal unit.

Fabricio Poci

Fabricio Leonel Poci (born 10 April 1986 in Buenos Aires), is an Argentinian footballer with Italian citizenship who plays for A.O.Chania in the Greek Football League, as a midfielder.

In June 2013, he returned to Crete, this time for A.O.Chania, who had just been promoted to the second division.

Iryna Pukha

Her personal best times are 7.11 seconds in the 60 metres, achieved at the 2000 European Indoor Championships in Ghent; and 11.12 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Chania.

Kastelli

Kissamos (or Kastelli Kissamou), a settlement in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece

Kydonia Province

Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Chania and Platanias, except the municipal units Kolymvari and Voukolies (partly).

Malaxa

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

Moni Gonia Monastery

Moni Gonia Monastery, Monastery of Our Lady of Gonia or Monastery of Panaghia Odigitria is an orthodox monastery located 1 km north of Kolymvari and some 26 km from Chania, on the coast of the south-east Rodopos peninsula in Crete, Greece, overlooking the Gulf of Chania.

MV Ancona

In 1988 Knossos was moved to the Piraeus—Chania service, where she remained until October 1995 when Minoan Lines decided to abandon the route.

Oi Thalassies oi Hadres

In the film this influx shocks the traditional neighbourhood of Plaka in Athens, infuriates and alarms the people who occupy with the laïkó music style.

Mary (Zoe Laskari) is a rich young lady that challenges problems in a traditional folk neighbourhood in Plaka, Athens, when she moves to play modern music in a store opposite a traditional taverna, where Fotis (Faidon Georgitsis), a bouzouki player, works along with Kostas (Kostas Voutsas), Sofia (Mary Chronopoulou) and others.

Omalos

The Cretan revolutionary Hatzimichalis Giannaris (1833-1916) was born in nearby Lakkoi, and was prominent in the 1855-1869 conflicts, captured but escaped from prison in Chania and then exiled to Odessa.

Omalos is situated at the northeastern corner of the Omalos Plateau (οροπέδιο του Ομαλού), 38 km south of Chania in the White Mountains (Lefka Ori).

Ot Pi

In 1994 Ot Pi appeared in another video entitled Full Cycle: A World Odyssey performing Trials in various locations in and around Athens, Greece, including the Plaka, National Garden of Athens, Acropolis, Parliamentary Building, Olympic Stadium, Christianity Rock and Sounion, known for its temple ruins by the Aegean Sea.

Palaeoloxodon chaniensis

The species is described from limited remains found in Stylos and in Vamos cave, Chania, west Crete.

Perivolia Municipal Stadium

From the season 2012—2013 the team competes in Platanias Peribolion Municipal Stadium of Chania , which in the summer of 2012, took place in record time , extensive upgrading and modernization work at all levels to meet in full all obligations set by the organizing principle of the league Super League OPAP and NOVA.

Phalasarna

The seaside has long sandy beaches and crystal clear waters that are popular both with residents of the province of Chania and visitors from Greece and abroad.

Plaka, Chania

There are many interesting walks to take around the village, usually through olive groves, or to the next villages of Kampia and Kokkino Chorio.

Plaka, Lemnos

Komninos Piromaglou, politician, writer and historian (1899–1980), founder of EDES (ΕΔΕΣ) and member of the Parliament with EDA (ΕΔΑ) in 1958.

Prince George of Greece and Denmark

In 1905, however, he summoned an illegal revolutionary assembly in Theriso, in the hills near Chania, the then capital of the island.

Recreo

The city's economy is driven mainly by industries that export their products to other countries and the rest of the country, which are: food industries, Arcor, clothing, Fabrizzi; armed accumulator, Plaka, footwear, Willy; appliances, Barbero, textiles, Sabri and Tejica, minerals, ores of the Playground.

Sellia

Sellia, Chania, a village in the municipality of Vamos, Chania, Greece

Ulf Timmermann

On 22 May 1988 he became the first person to throw over 23 meters with a throw of 23.06 meters at Chania, Greece.

Vasil Shkurti

Born in Chania, Greece, Shkurti played youth football for four clubs, including AFC Ajax, Olympiakos F.C. and S.S. Lazio, arriving at the latter in January 2010 as compatriot Igli Tare acted as the team's director of football.

Zhivko Videnov

His personal best time is 13.33 seconds, achieved in June 2000 in Chania.


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