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Foros may refer to: * Foros, Crimea, a resort town in Crimea * Foros Group, a boutique investment group headquartered in New York City * '' Foros Timis Ston Greco'', a classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis * Foros (crater), an impact crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars * ''Foros'' (icebreaker), a Latvian icebreaking salvage tug See also * Phoros In Ancient Greece, phoros () was the name for the membership dues paid to Athens by the members of the Delian League, formed to offer protection from Persian forces. It could be paid in military equipment (such as triremes) or money, most usually t ...

Foros, Crimea
Foros (; ; ; ) is a resort town (legally an urban-type settlement) in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia under the name " Republic of Crimea". According to the most recent census, it had a population of Foros is the southernmost resort in Crimea and in all of Ukraine. The settlement was founded and named by medieval Greek merchants. It was rediscovered in the late 19th century by Alexander Kuznetsov, a Russian "tea king" who had his palace built on the sea shore. It was Kuznetsov who commissioned the town's main landmark, the Resurrection Church. This ornate five-domed architectural extravaganza is sited on a 400-metre cliff overlooking Foros. The Soviet leaders had several state dachas built near Foros. One of these came to international attention during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, when the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had been vacationing at the time of the coup. Gorbachev's luxury dacha had be ...
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Foros Timis Ston Greco
''Foros Timis Ston Greco'' (''Φόρος Τιμής Στον Γκρέκο'', lit. ''A Tribute to El Greco'') is a classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis (as Vangelis Papathanassiou/Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου). The title is an allusion to the man who inspired the composition, Dominikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, 1541–1614), the Cretan-born painter and sculptor better known as El Greco. The album was published in 1995 as a limited edition of 3,000 CD-audios and sold exclusively at the National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum in Athens, Greece, which was raising funds to buy El Greco's painting "St. Peter". The luxurious packaging, in a dark-blue velvet box, included a 128-page coffee table book, about El Greco's paintings, dedicated to Vangelis, and a digipack containing the CD. Each CD carried Vangelis' personal signature and a unique serial number. For such a special edition, the price was ...
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Foros (crater)
Foros may refer to: * Foros, Crimea, a resort town in Crimea * Foros Group, a boutique investment group headquartered in New York City * ''Foros Timis Ston Greco'', a classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis * Foros (crater), an impact crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars * ''Foros'' (icebreaker), a Latvian icebreaking salvage tug See also * Phoros In Ancient Greece, phoros () was the name for the membership dues paid to Athens by the members of the Delian League, formed to offer protection from Persian forces. It could be paid in military equipment (such as triremes) or money, most usually t ...

Foros (icebreaker)
''Foros'' (formerly named ''Fobos'' from 1983 to 2014) is a Latvian icebreaking salvage tug. She was built at Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ..., and delivered in 1983.IMO 8119089
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