Mardas (Shahnameh)
Mardas ( el, Μάρδας) is a Greek surname. It is the surname of: * Magic Alex (1942-2017), born as ''Alexis Mardas'', British-Greek electronics engineer. * Dimitris Mardas (born 1955), Greek economist and politician. * Henadz Mardas Henadz Mardas ( be, Генадзь Мардас; russian: Геннадий Мардас; 12 June 1970 — 2 June 2020) was a Belarusian professional football player and coach. Honours Neman Grodno *Belarusian Cup winner: 1992–93 BATE Borisov ... (1970-2020), Belarusian football coach and player. See also * Cham Mardas, a village in Iran. {{surname Greek-language surnames Surnames ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Greek Name
In the modern world, Greeks names are the personal names among people of Greek language and culture generally consist of a given name and a family name. History Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare. But by the 11th and 12th centuries, elite families often used family names. Family names came from placenames, nicknames, or occupations.Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', 2016, , p. lii During the Ottoman period, surnames with Turkish prefixes such as "Hatzi-", "Kara-" and suffixes such as "-(i)lis", "-tzis", and "-oglou" became common, especially among Anatolian Greeks. It is not clear when stable family surnames bec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Magic Alex
Yannis (later John) Alexis Mardas ( el, Αλέξης Μάρδας; 2 May 1942 – 13 January 2017), also known as Magic Alex, was a Greek electronics engineer who was closely associated with the Beatles. His nickname was given to him by John Lennon when he was involved with the group between 1965 and 1969, during which time he became head of Apple Electronics. Mardas arrived in England in 1965, exhibiting his ''Kinetic Light Sculptures'' at the Indica Gallery. He impressed John Lennon with the ''Nothing Box'': a small plastic box with randomly blinking lights, and allegedly claimed that he could build a 72-track tape machine. Mardas was in India with the Beatles at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India and was then given the job of designing the new Apple Studio in Savile Row. His schemes lost Apple at least £300,000 (£ in pounds). In the 1970s, the anti-terrorism industry offered bullet-proof vehicles, bugging devices and security hardware, so Mardas set up companie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dimitris Mardas
Dimitris Mardas ( gr, Δημήτρης Μάρδας; born 25 March 1955) is a Greek economist and politician who served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He previously served as the Alternate Minister of Revenue in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He was a Member of the Hellenic Parliament from 2015 until 2019, representing Thessaloniki B. He is currently a professor of economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Education Mardas was educated in Thessaloniki before studying at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he received his degree in 1979. Mardas completed his postgraduate studies in economics at the universities of Pantheon-Sorbonne, from 1979 to 1980, and Panthéon-Assas, from 1980 to 1982. He was awarded his PhD in international trade from the Panthéon-Assas University in 1990. Academic career From 1982 to 1993, Mardas was a research associate at the School of Economics of the Aristotle Un ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Henadz Mardas
Henadz Mardas ( be, Генадзь Мардас; russian: Геннадий Мардас; 12 June 1970 — 2 June 2020) was a Belarusian professional football player and coach. Honours Neman Grodno *Belarusian Cup winner: 1992–93 BATE Borisov *Belarusian Premier League champion: 2002 Death Mardas died on 2 June 2020 from a bowel cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel m ..., which he was initially diagnosed with in 2015. References External linksProfile at teams.by* 1970 births 2020 deaths Soviet men's footballers Belarusian men's footballers Belarusian expatriate men's footballers FC Zorya Luhansk players FC Neman Grodno players SC Tavriya Simferopol players FC BATE Borisov players FC Smorgon players Ukrainian Premier League players Place of death ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cham Mardas
Cham Mardas ( fa, چم مرداس, also Romanized as Cham Mardās) is a village in Howmeh-ye Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Ramhormoz County Ramhormoz County ( fa, شهرستان رامهرمز; Lurish: رۉمەز Rümez) is located in Khuzestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Ramhormoz. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county ..., Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 96, in 17 families. References Populated places in Ramhormoz County {{Ramhormoz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Greek-language Surnames
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting impor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |