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Foreign Archaeological Institutes In Greece
There are 19 Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Greece, also known as "schools," all based in Athens. Seventeen of them are officially accredited. In addition to conducting their share of government-authorized research projects, they issue reports and other publications, support specialised archaeological/ classical libraries, conduct regular lecture programmes, award scholarships/bursaries and provide accommodation for a fee. They do not offer degrees, nor are their courses part of any regular, gradated curriculum. The "students" are not regular students as they are known in the countries of initiation; in fact, some schools, such as the British School, now avoid the term, in favor of "member." The members, or students, are often already degreed professionals in archaeology or related fields. They take courses to prepare themselves for the research conducted by the school, which is typically archaeological. Undergraduate or graduate students present are enrolled in degree progra ...
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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 ...
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Canadian Institute In Greece
The Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) (french: Institut Canadien en Grèce (ICG); el, Καναδικό Ινστιτούτο στην Ελλάδα) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. General information, services, activities, facilities The CIG/ICG has been recognised by the Greek state since 1976 (originally as the Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens). It aims to promote and assist Canadian scholars in all areas of Greek studies. To further this aim, it runs a regular lecture series at Athens, operates a programme of internships to enable Canadian students to work in Greece, and runs a sizeable library (currently 5,000 volumes). Archaeological fieldwork The CIG/ICG has been involved in a variety of archaeological projects across Greece, including Argilos (Greek Macedonia), the Persian War Shipwreck Survey (off Athos, Thessaly and Euboia), at Mytilene (Lesbos), Kastro-Kallithea (Thessaly), Khostia, Eleon, and Tanagra (Boeoti ...
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Swiss School Of Archaeology In Greece
The Swiss School of Archaeology in GreeceESAG (french: École Suisse d'Archéologie en Grèce; german: Schweizer Archäologische Schule in Griechenland; it, Scuola Elvetica d'Archeologia in Grecia; el, Ελβετική Αρχαιολογική Σχολή στην Ελλάδα) is one of the foreign archaeological institutes operating in Greece. Since 1964, the Swiss archaeologists have been excavating the remains of the ancient site of Eretria (Euboea), a medium-sized city which has extensively contributed to the development and the influence of the Greek civilisation. Hosted in Switzerland by the University of Lausanne, the Swiss School has its head office in Athens, in an Art Nouveau building at Odos Skaramanga 4B. The school has also offices in a 19th-century neoclassical house in Eretria, Odos Apostoli 15. History Swiss archaeologists started to work in Euboea in April 1964, but the Greek Archaeological Council had already accepted the principle of Swiss participation in ...
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Swedish Institute At Athens
The Swedish Institute at Athens ( sv, Svenska institutet I Athen; el, Σουηδικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών) was founded in 1946 and is one of 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. The Institute is one of three Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean, along with the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Besides the premises in Athens the institute has an office in Stockholm and a guesthouse in Kavala. It also owns the Nordic Library along with the Danish Institute at Athens, the Finnish Institute at Athens and the Norwegian Institute at Athens. The institute is a non-profit research foundation. The board consists of a chairman appointed by the Swedish Government, a vice-chair, secretary, treasurer, and additional members representing Classical Archaeology, Ancient Greek, and Art History. Since 2017, Jenny Wallensten is the director of the institute and Ruth Jacoby is cha ...
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Romanian Archaeological Institute In Athens
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The Polish Archaeological Institute At Athens
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Norwegian Institute At Athens
The Norwegian Institute at Athens ( no, Det Norske Institutt I Athen; el, Νορβηγικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. The Institute aims to promote research in all areas of Greek Studies by Norwegian scholars. It contributes, with its Danish, Finnish and Swedish counterparts, to the Nordic Library at Athens. Its archaeological activities, since its foundation in 1989, include archaeological survey in Arcadia, deep-water archaeological survey in the Northern Sporades and off Ithaca ( Ionian Islands), and excavations at Petropigi ( Kavala regional unit), and at Tegea (Arcadia) where the city and the sanctuary of Athena Alea Alea (Ancient Greek: ) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, prominent in Arcadian mythology, under which she was worshiped at Alea, Mantineia and Tegea. Alea was initially an independent goddess, but was eventually assimilated with Athen ... are under investiga ...
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Netherlands Institute In Athens
The Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA) ( nl, Het Nederlands Instituut Athene; el, Ολλανδικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. The Institute aims to promote and support Dutch scholars of all academic disciplines active in Greece. To achieve this, the Institute organizes courses, lectures, conferences, maintains a program of study grants and provides students and scholars with lodgings and the necessary study permits. The Institute also gives information to Greek students wishing to study in the Netherlands, and occasionally organises exhibitions. The 'Writer's house' program fell victim to the culture budget cuts under the Rutte 1 cabinet; the Institute now hosts a Journalist in Residence for two months a year in cooperation with the Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten. Since its foundation in 1984, the Institute has been involved in multiple archaeological projects, such as a survey ...
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Italian School Of Archaeology At Athens
The Italian School of Archaeology at Athens ( it, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (SAIA); el, Ἰταλικὴ Ἀρχαιολογικὴ Σχολὴ Ἀθηνῶν) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes headquartered in Athens, Greece, with branch offices in Crete, Limnos and Rome. Following earlier Italian research in Greece (as an archaeological "expedition" or "mission"), the School was established in 1909. The School operates a sizeable library in Athens. It has conducted archaeological surveys in Aigialeia (Arcadia) and Thouria (Messenia), and excavations on Lemnos at Poliochne, Hephaistia, and Chloe, as well as on Crete, at the Minoan Palace at Phaistos and the nearby Minoan town of Agia Triada, and also in the Archaic through Roman city of Gortyn Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna ( el, Γόρτυν, , or , ) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean island of Crete away from the island's capital, Heraklion. The seat of the mun ...
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Irish Institute Of Hellenic Studies At Athens
The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens (IIHSA) ( ga, Institiúid Éireannach san Ataen don Léann Heilléanach; el, Ιρλανδικό Ινστιτούτο Ελληνικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. General information and mission The IIHSA was officially founded in 1995 and has been fully operational since 2002. It aims to promote, coordinate, and assist Irish or Irish-based researchers who are active in Greece, to develop Irish-based archaeological projects in Greece, to raise the awareness and profile of Hellenic Studies in Ireland and to promote Irish culture in Greece. Activities Apart from its archaeological fieldwork (below), the IIHSA runs a lecture series, hosts occasional seminars and exhibitions, organises annual archaeological study tours for Irish students and operates a programme of bursaries enabling Irish students to undertake research in Greece. It also provid ...
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German Archaeological Institute At Athens
The German Archaeological Institute at Athens (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), Abteilung Athen; el, Γερμανικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. General information, history, facilities The Athens department was the second department founded by the institute (after Rome) in 1874 and it is the second foreign institute in Athens (after the École Française d’Athènes). Part of the institute was established on May 17, 1872, and inaugurated on December 9th, 1874. The construction of the building in which it is housed was funded by Heinrich Schliemann; the plans were made by Ernst Ziller and Wilhelm Dörpfeld. Today, it is one of several specialised departments that make up the German Archaeological Institute. With an ongoing research programme, an 80,000-volume library and a large photographic archive, the German Archaeological Institute at Athen ...
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Georgian Institute At Athens
The Georgian Institute at Athens ( el, Γεωργιανό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. It is the first Georgian academic and cultural institution abroad. The Greek state recognised it in 1998 as a Foreign Archaeological Institute, but the Institute's interests and activities encompass all aspects of scientific and cultural exchange between Greece and the nation of Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the .... Bibliography *E. Korka et al. (eds.): Foreign Archaeological Schools in Greece, 2006, p. 86-89. Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Greece {{Georgia-stub ...
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