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Antonis Kleftis
Antónis (Greek alphabet: Αντώνης) is a Greek masculine given name that is a variant of Antonios that is used in Greece and Cyprus. Antonis is a Dutch masculine given name that is a diminutive of Anthonius that is used in Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Namibia, Indonesia and Suriname. It is sometimes a surname and is transliterated as Antonios and Andonis. Antonis is a cognate of the English language name Anthony. People bearing the name Antonis or Antónis include: Given name * Antonis Antoniadis (born 1946), Greek footballer * Antonis Antoniadis (born 1946), Greek naval officer *Antonis Aresti (born 1983), Cypriot track and field paralympian athlete *Antonis Benakis (1873–1954), Greek art collector and museum founder *Antonis Bourselis (born 1994), Greek footballer *Antonis Constantinides (born 1974), Cypriot basketball coach *Antonis Christeas (1937–2011), Greek basketball player *Antonis Daglis (1974–1997), Greek serial killer *Antonis Dedakis (born 1995) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands. The country consists of nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions, and has a population of approximately 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilization, being the birthplace of Athenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Drossoyannis
Antonis Drossoyannis ( el, Αντώνης Δροσογιάννης, January 26, 1922 - November 5, 2006) was a Greek Army general and politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and cabinet minister. Life Born in 1922 in the village of Dafni, Phthiotis, he enrolled in the Hellenic Army Academy in 1939. Upon the start of the Greco-Italian War in October 1940 he was sent to the Albanian front. Following the German invasion of Greece and the occupation of the country, he fled to the Middle East where he joined the armed forces of the Greek government in exile, first in the ranks of the 2nd Greek Brigade and then in the Sacred Squadron special forces unit, with which he fought in the Western Desert and Tunisia Campaigns, as well as in operations against the German garrisons of the Aegean islands. During the Greek Civil War (1946–49) he was commander of the 62nd Mountain Raider Company, and in 1955–58 commanded the Raider Units Training Centre (KEMK). He served in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebetiko
Rebetiko ( el, ρεμπέτικο, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early 1970s onwards. Rebetiko briefly can be described as the urban popular song of the Greeks, especially the poorest, from the late 19th century to the 1950s. In 2017 rebetiko was added in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. Definition and etymology The word (plural ) is an adjectival form derived from the Greek word ( el, ρεμπέτης, ). The word is today construed to mean a person who embodies aspects of character, dress, behavior, morals and ethics associated with a particular subculture. The etymology of the word remains the subject of dispute and uncertainty; an early scholar of rebetiko, Elias Petropoulos, and the modern Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Diamantidis
Antonis Diamantidis (Greek: Αντώνης Διαμαντίδης), also known as Antonis Dalgas (Greek: Αντώνης Νταλγκάς) was a Greek musician. He was notable for his rebetiko songs. He was also a songwriter and best known as a singer. Life and career Diamantidis was born in 1892 in the Arnavutköy suburb of Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). He took up music from an early age, learning to play both the guitar and the oud, and by 1910 he began to work professionally as a singer. Because of the unusual and stirring "waves" in his voice, he was given the nickname Dalgas ("Νταλγκάς" which means "passion" in Greek, and "ripple" in Turkish), by which he would be known for the rest of his professional career. In 1919, he married Argyro Nikolaou in Istanbul, with whom he had one daughter, Anna. From 1920 to 1922, he and his band entertained Greek immigrants to America on the ocean liner "King Alexandros." It was during on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Dedakis
Antonis Dentakis ( el, Αντώνης Ντεντάκης; born 13 March 1995) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Super League club Levadiakos. Honours ;Volos *Gamma Ethniki: 2017–18 *Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...: 2018–19 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dentakis, Antonis 1995 births Living people Footballers from Chania Greek footballers Super League Greece players Football League (Greece) players Gamma Ethniki players Platanias F.C. players PGS Kissamikos players Apollon Smyrnis F.C. players Volos N.F.C. players Levadiakos F.C. players Association football defenders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Daglis
Antonis Daglis ( el, Αντώνης Δαγλής; 1974 – 2 August 1997) was a Greek serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three women and attempted murder of six others in Athens on 23 January 1997. Referred to as The Athens Ripper, he was sentenced to thirteen terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years. Crimes Daglis, a truck driver, preyed upon Athens prostitutes between 1992 and 1995. He had been a repeat juvenile offender since the age of 14. He had a prior record for a 1988 charge of seducing a minor, and in 1989 he was arrested for attacking a group of men at the Zappeion in Athens with a knife. Daglis was initially suspected for two murders after he was arrested for the rape and abduction of an English woman named Ann Hamson. After his arrest, Daglis confessed to the rape, strangulation and dismemberment of two women and the attempted murder of a further six, and having robbed all eight women. He later admitted to dismembering the bodies of two women, Eleni Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Christeas
Antonis Christeas ( el, Αντώνης Χρηστέας; 1 February 1937 – 9 October 2011) was a Greek professional basketball player of the 1950s and 1960s era. Club career Christeas was a key member of Panellinios, and with them he won 2 Greek League championships, in 1955, and 1957. He also won two European Club Championships with the club, as he won the 1955 Brussels Basketball Tournament and the 1956 San Remo Basketball Tournament. He also played with AEK Athens. With AEK, he won 6 Greek League championships (1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970). He also won the European-wide secondary level 1967–68 season's FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, on April 4, 1968, with AEK. In between playing with Panellinios and AEK, he also played with Triton. National team career Christeas was also a key member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team, and he finished his career with the national team with 30 caps, in which he scored a total of 397 points. He played at the 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Constantinides
Antonis Constantinides (born 24 October 1974) is a Cypriot professional basketball head coach, currently head coach of BC Körmend of the Hungarian league. He won both the Cypriot championship and cup titles in 2011 with ETHA Engomis, his first ever career titles, after which he was chosen 'coach of the year' for the 2010-11 season in Cyprus. He has experience in European competitions, participating regularly with his teams in the FIBA EuroChallenge. Personal life Constantinides is a fluent speaker of English and Greek language. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Constantinides, Antonis 1974 births Living people BC Körmend coaches Cypriot basketball coaches Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ... People from Nicosia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Bourselis
Antonis Bourselis ( el, Αντώνης Μπουρσέλης; born 6 July 1994) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chania. Career Bourselis began his football career in the youth teams of his local side Ergotelis and signed his first professional contract with the club, on 28 January 2013. He made his debut for the club on 17 August 2013 in the 2013–14 Superleague opening match against Atromitos. On 15 January 2014, Bourselis was loaned out to Gamma Ethniki side P.A.O. Krousonas for the remainder of the season, in order to get more playing time. He made a total of 15 appearances for P.A.O. Krousonas, all as a starter. On 17 October 2015, Bourselis scored his first goal for Ergotelis, in a Football League match against Larissa. In January 2016, and after Ergotelis withdrew from professional competitions as a result of unbearable financial obligations, Bourselis, who had been one of the 17 players still remaining in the club's roster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Benakis
Antonis Benakis (Greek: Αντώνης Μπενάκης) (1873–1954) was a Greek art collector and the founder of the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, the son of politician and magnate Emmanuel Benakis and the brother of author Penelope Delta. He is the hero of Delta's book "''Trellantonis''" (Crazy Antony), a literary account of the sundry, mischievous adventures of children growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, in the early 20th century. He moved permanently to Athens in 1926. It is certain that Antonis Benakis, the founder of the Benaki Museum, was influenced by the example of his father Emmanuel Benakis (1843–1929), and the great statesman Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), a close friend and colleague. During his own lifetime Benakis donated the museum that he created to the Greek state, now the Benaki Museum. Benakis pursued a continuous involvement, until his death, in enriching and improving the organisation of the museum's holdings, and his role in ensuring its financia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Aresti
Antonis Aresti is a former athlete and Paralympian from Cyprus who competed mainly in category T46 and T47 sprint events. He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There he won a silver medal in the men's 200 metres - T46 event and a silver medal in the men's 400 metres - T46 event Career Born on 15 February 1983 in Limassol, Cyprus by Leonidas and Androula Aresti. At the age of three years, Aresti was dragged by a moving car while he was trying to cross the street. The accident caused a damage on his left hand. Such disability pushed the Cypriot sprinter to deal with sports. He started practising athletics at early age by participating in school events mainly in long-distance races. At age 14 he started running seriously. Then, he won many medals in local youth championships in athletics. Also, he participated in world organisations as a member of the national team of Cyprus. He studied Physical Education at National Sports Academy (NSA) of Bulgaria in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
