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Kaisariani
Kaisariani ( el, Καισαριανή) is a suburb and a municipality in the eastern part of the Athens agglomeration in Greece. Geography Kaisariani is located about southeast of Athens city centre, and of the Acropolis of Athens. The municipality has an area of 7.841 km2. Towards the east the municipality extends to the forested Hymettus mountain, where the 11th century Kaisariani Monastery is situated. The built-up area of Kaisariani is continuous with that of the center of Athens and the suburb Vyronas to the southwest. The main thoroughfare is Ethnikis Antistasis Avenue, which connects Kaisariani with the center of Athens and the eastern beltway Motorway 64 (Greece), Motorway 64. History The town was founded in 1922 as a refugee camp for Greek refugees, refugees driven from Asia Minor, most of whom coming from Smyrna. Formerly part of the municipality of Athens, Kaisariani was created as a municipality in 1933. The name was derived from Caesarea, the historical capi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisariani Monastery
The Kaisariani Monastery ( el, Μονή Καισαριανής) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery built on the north side of Mount Hymettus, near Athens, Greece. History The monastery was probably established in Byzantine times in ca. 1100, which is the date of construction of the surviving church (the monastery's '' katholikon''). Nevertheless, the site has a far longer history as a cult center: in Antiquity, it was probably a site dedicated to Aphrodite, before being taken over by Christians in the 5th/6th centuries. Remains of a large early Christian basilica lie to the west, over which a smaller church was built in the 10th/11th centuries. The monastery is mentioned by Pope Innocent III after the Fourth Crusade, but seems to have remained in Greek Orthodox hands, unlike other churches and monasteries that were taken over by Latin (Roman Catholic) clergy. A further, now ruined single-aisled church, was built to the southwest during the Frankish period. When, in 1458, the Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisariani Executions
On 1 May 1944, 200 Greek communists ( el, Οι 200 της Καισαριανής, "The 200 of Kaisariani") were executed at the firing range of the Athens suburb of Kaisariani by the Nazi occupation authorities as reprisal for the killing of a German general by Greek Resistance forces. Background Greece had been under the dictatorial and fiercely anti-communist Metaxas Regime since 1936. Members of the Communist Party of Greece were persecuted and put in prison, chiefly in the Akronauplia and Corfu prisons, or sent to internal exile in small islands. With the German invasion of Greece and the start of the Axis Occupation of Greece in April 1941, the communist prisoners were placed under German control. Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, most of the communist prisoners, formerly held in the Italian-run Larissa concentration camp, were moved to Haidari concentration camp in the northwestern suburbs of Athens. Executions On 27 April 1944, ELAS partisans ambus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hymettus
Hymettus (), also Hymettos (; el, Υμηττός, translit=Ymittós, pronounced ), is a mountain range in the Athens area of Attica, East Central Greece. It is also colloquially known as ''Trellós'' (crazy) or ''Trellóvouno'' (crazy mountain); the latter originates from the French "très long" (very long) in awe of its winding length of 16 km, as used by French travelers during the occupation of Greece by the Ottomans. Hymettus was assigned the status of a protected area in the EU's Natura 2000 ecological network. Geography The highest point of the mountain range is Evzonas (Εύζωνας) with an elevation of and the length of Hymettus is from Athens to the Saronic Gulf and 6 to 7 km from east to west. In ancient times, the highest point was known as Megas Hymettos and the southern peaks as Elattona (Ελάττονα) and Anydros Hymettos (Ἄνυδρος Ὑμηττός, "waterless Hymettos"). Today the southern peaks are called Mavrovouni (Μαυροβού ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Krech
Major General (''Generalmajor'') Franz Krech (died 27 April 1944) was the German commander of the 41st Fortress Division of the Wehrmacht during the World War II Axis occupation of Greece. He was ambushed and killed by a platoon of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) in Laconia.''Meyer Hermann Από τη Βιέννη στα Καλάβρυτα. Τα αιματηρά ίχνη της 117ης Μεραρχίας Καταδρομών στη Σερβία και την Ελλάδα'', Estia, 2004, p. 512Yiannis Priovolos, ''Μόνιμοι Αξιωματικοί στον ΕΛΑΣ, οικειοθελώς ή εξ'ανάγκης'', Alfeios Publications, p. 515 It led to harsh reprisals by the occupying forces and contributed to the declaration of the Peloponnese as an "operational zone", i.e. a war zone. Ambush A platoon of the 8th (Laconian) Regiment of ELAS, under 2nd Lieutenant Manolis Stathakis, ambushed the German major general''Από τη Βιέννη στα Καλάβρυτα. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vyronas
Vyronas ( el, Βύρωνας) is a suburban town and a municipality in the southeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. The town is named after George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous English poet and writer, who is a national hero of Greece. Formerly part of the municipality of Athens, Vyronas was created as a community in 1933, and became a municipality in 1934. The municipality has an area of 9.204 km2. Vyronas is an inner suburb of Athens, located about 3 km southeast of Athens city centre. Towards the southeast the municipality extends to the forested Hymettus mountain. The built-up area of Vyronas is continuous with that of municipality of Athens and the neighbouring suburbs Kaisariani, Ymittos and Ilioupoli. Motorway 64 runs through the southeastern part of the municipality. Climate Vyronas has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: ''Csa''). Vyronas experiences cool, wet winters and hot, relatively dry summers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Athens (regional Unit)
Central Athens ( el, Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Attica. The regional unit covers the central part of the agglomeration of Greater Athens. Administration As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Central Athens was created out of part of the former Athens Prefecture. It is subdivided into 8 municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox): * Municipality of Athens (''Dimos Athinas'', 1) *Dafni-Ymittos (13) *Filadelfeia-Chalkidona (32) *Galatsi (11) *Ilioupoli (16) *Kaisariani (19) *Vyronas (10) *Zografou (15) See also *List of settlements in Attica This is a list of settlements in the region of Attica, Greece. Mainland Attica * Acharnes * Afidnes * Agia Paraskevi * Agia Varvara * Agioi Anargyroi * Agios Dimitrios * Agios Ioannis Rentis * Agios Konstantinos * Agios Stefanos * Aigaleo * Al ... References Regional units of Attica 2011 est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Themis Adamantidis
Themis Adamantidis ( gr, Θέμης Αδαμαντίδης), born 28 September 1957) is a Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ... singer and songwriter. He released around two dozen full-length studio albums, on Columbia Records, Minos Records/EMI and WEA, but also on smaller labels. Discography He released the following albums: * 1980 – Αγάπησέ με * 1982 – Πονάμε όσοι αγαπάμε * 1982 – Τα Βοριαδάκια (Συμμετοχή) * 1983 – Δεν ήσουν ένα όνειρο * 1984 – Μια αλήθεια * 1986 – Δεν τελειώνουνε οι νύχτες * 1987 – Ακόμα σ΄αγαπώ * 1988 – 100% * 1989 – Η Φαντασία μου * 1991 – Επιμένω γιατί σ΄αγαπώ * 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christos Dantis
Christos Dantis ( el, Χρήστος Δάντης; born Christos Vlahakis, 26 September 1966), is a Greek multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, lyricist, and record producer best known for his hits such as "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" and later for co-writing the song "My Number One" for Elena Paparizou, winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece. Career Early music career Christos Dantis started playing music in front of an audience when in his early teens. He sang and played either guitar or bass guitar, while also experimenting with the drums, in various music genre bands such as rock, funk, soul, R&B, metal etc. It was in the 1986–87 period of the Music Stage Taboo in Athens, when during the auditions for new singers to complement the program of main singers Tania Tsanaklidou and Dimitra Galani, composer George Hatzinasios was the "godfather" of his name Dantis. During that period Christos sang on commercial advertising jingles while mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attica 06-13 Hills Of Hymettus 06 Church Ruins
Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Sea, bordering on Boeotia to the north and Megaris to the west. The southern tip of the peninsula, known as Laurion, was an important mining region. The history of Attica is tightly linked with that of Athens, and specifically the Golden Age of Athens during the classical period. Ancient Attica ( Athens city-state) was divided into demoi or municipalities from the reform of Cleisthenes in 508/7 BC, grouped into three zones: urban (''astu'') in the region of Athens main city and Piraeus (port of Athens), coastal (''paralia'') along the coastline and inland (''mesogeia'') in the interior. The modern administrative region of Attica is more extensive than the historical region and includes Megaris as part of the regional unit West Attica, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelios Giannakopoulos
Stylianos "Stelios" Giannakopoulos ( el, Στυλιανός "Στέλιος" Γιαννακόπουλος; born 12 July 1974), popularly known as Stelios, is a Greek football manager and former player. During his playing career, Giannakopoulos played as a right winger or attacking midfielder and was one of the best known Greek footballers internationally, due to his successful spells with Olympiacos and Bolton Wanderers as well as his appearances with the 2004 European championship-winning Greece national football team. Club career Early career Born in Athens, Stelios is the second son of Alekos, a former football player who played during the 1960's. He joined Ethnikos Asteras (the semi-professional club of his neighbourhood Kaisariani) when he was seven years old, later moved for one year to Doxa Vyronas, and finally made his first-team debut for Ethnikos Asteras in the autumn of 1991, in a season which ended with the club gaining promotion to the professional Third Division. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Kalogiannis
Antonis Kalogiannis ( el, Αντώνης Καλογιάννης; 3 August 1933 – 11 February 2021) was a Greek singer. Biography In 1966, Kalogiannis met with composer Mikis Theodorakis, who helped launch his career. During the Greek junta, he went into exile and recorded protest songs with Maria Farantouri. During the 1980s, he established himself as a love singer. On 11 February 2021, Antonis Kalogiannis died of a heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may tr ... at the age of 87. Discography * ''Κάτι φταίει'' * ''Τα πρώτα μου τραγούδια'' * ''Ερωτικά'' * ''Συνοικισμός Α'' (1972) * ''Για μια σταγόνα αλάτι'' (1973) * ''Τα λιοτρόπια'' (1974) * ''Τι ώρα νά 'ναι'' * ''Τραγού ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
