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unusual facts about Rhodes, Greece



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.

Akte

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

Alphonso de Spina

Thought by many to be a convert from Judaism, Alphonso de Spina was for many years superior of the House of Studies of the Friars Minor at Salamanca, and in 1491 was created Bishop of Thermopylae in Greece.

Anavryti, Laconia

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

Aristomenes of Alyzia

Aristomenes, son of Menneas, was a native of the city of Alyzia in Acarnania, Greece.

Army Group E

During the course of these operations, several atrocities were committed, including the massacres of Kalavryta and Distomo in 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.

Damatria

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

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.

Drayton House

There have been changes to the house in each century since, including works recorded by Isaac Rowe, John Webb, William Talman, Gerard Lanscroon, William Rhodes, Alexander Roos, George Devey and John Alfred Gotch.

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.

Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Rhodes' illustrative diary of his war service was quoted prominently in Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War.

Fashoda Incident

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.

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.

George P. Chrousos

Chrousos was born in Patras, Greece, attended the University of Athens Medical School and finished as the valedictorian of his class in 1975.

Godswar

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

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.

Jack Rhodes

Leon Payne (Rhodes' step-brother) wrote "I Love You Because", which has been covered by — among others — Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley LP, 1956), Al Martino (Billboard Hot 100 #3, 1963), Jim Reeves (UK Singles Chart #5, 1964), Johnny Cash, Matt Monro and Slim Whitman.

Jonty Rhodes

Australia batted first, scoring 170, and Rhodes dismissed Craig McDermott via a run out.

Karl Otfried Müller

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

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.

Kostas Krystallis

He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to Greece after being denounced to the authorities for writing a patriotic collection of poetry.

League of Prizren

The Albanians' fear that the lands they inhabited would be partitioned among Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece fueled the rise of resistance.

M. C. Bradbrook

She held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Santa Cruz, Tokyo, and Rhodes, South Africa, and received honorary degrees from many more.

Mad River

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

Malaxa

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

Michalis Kakiouzis

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

Monodendri

Monodendri, Achaea, part of the municipal unit of Vrachnaiika, Achaea, Greece

Neraidochori

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

Nessonas

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

Pogon

Pogoni, a municipality in Ioannina regional unit, Greece

Prikeba Phipps

Prikeba ("Keba") Reed Phipps (born June 30, 1969 in Lakewood, California) is a retired volleyball player from the United States, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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.

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.

Tempe, New South Wales

It was named after the 'Vale of Tempe', a beautiful valley in ancient Greek legend set at the foot of Mount Olympus in Greece.

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 New Colossus

In the 2009 hip-hop song "The New Colossus" by Kinetics & One Love, rapper Kinetics loosely references lines from the Lazarus poem and raps about the Statue of Liberty as well as the Colossus of Rhodes, on which the poem is based.

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.

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.

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.

VP-8

From February to August 2003, VP-8 deployed to NAF Sigonella and Souda Bay, Crete, to provide 24-hour P-3 support for the two carrier battle groups in the Mediterranean during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), flying nearly 100 overland combat missions and over 4,000 flight hours from Italy, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Senegal.

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).


see also

2007 Island Games

The 2007 Island Games were the 12th edition of the Island Games, and were held in Rhodes, Greece, from June 30 to July 6, 2007.

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.

Ronald Noble

He was elected the first American Secretary General by the 69th INTERPOL General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece, in 2000, was unanimously re-elected to a second five-year term by the 74th INTERPOL General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, in 2005 and was unanimously re-elected to a third five-year term by the 79th INTERPOL General Assembly in Doha, Qatar, in 2010.

Soroni

Soroni (Σορωνή) is a small village on the island of Rhodes, Greece, on the northwest coast of the island (36°21'45.81"N, 28° 0'5.80"E).

Willard Manus

He is the author of This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables, a memoir of life in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece, from the 1960s to the 1990s.