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Genisea
Genisea () is a town in the Vistonida municipal unit, within the municipality of Abdera in the Xanthi regional unit of Greece. It is the seat of the municipality Abdera. According to the 2021 census, the population of Genisea was 2,049 inhabitants. History Genisea was ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1478 to 1912, and was known as ; more specifically (after the Nestos River, ) or ('tobacco'), to distinguish it from (modern Giannitsa).Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları'', Ankara 2017, T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 2''s.v.'', p. 810 In a tahrir defter of 1454–1455, it is recorded as . According to this record, the town was divided into nine quarters and had 154 Muslim Turkish households, and about 700 people in total; seven of whom were imams, indicating the existence of seven mosques. There were no Christians in the town, and it remained a purely Muslim city for centuries. In the Ottoman tax registry of 1519 ( Hijri 925) the town w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdera, Thrace
Abdera () is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek ''polis'' on the Thracian coast. The ancient polis is to be distinguished from the municipality, which was named in its honor. The polis lay 17 km east-northeast of the mouth of the Nestos River, almost directly opposite the island of Thasos. It was a colony placed in previously unsettled Thracian territory, not then a part of Hellas, during the age of Greek colonization. The city that developed from it became of major importance in ancient Greece. After the 4th centuryAD it declined, contracted to its acropolis, and was abandoned, never to be reoccupied except by archaeologists. During the Early Middle Ages, a new settlement emerged near the ancient city. It was called Polystylon (), and later considered as the New Abdera (). In 2011 the modern municipality of Abdera was synoecized from three previous municipalities comprising a number of modern settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vafeika
Vafeika (, also Βαφαίικα) is a settlement located approximately four kilometers from Genisea in the Xanthi regional unit of Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th .... It is part of the community of Genisea. Populated places in Xanthi (regional unit) Abdera, Thrace {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vistonida
Vistonida () is a former municipality in the Xanthi regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th .... It was named after Lake Vistonida. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Abdera, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 159.524 km2. Population 9,730 (2021). The seat of the municipality was the town Genisea. References Populated places in Xanthi (regional unit) Abdera, Thrace {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub el:Δήμος Αβδήρων#Ενότητα Βιστωνίδας ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yenidje Tobacco Company Limited
{{Short description, Former British tobacco company Yenidje Tobacco Company Limited was a British tobacco company founded in 1913 by Louis Rothman and Markus Weinberg. The company was named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace (modern Genisea, Greece), a leading producer of high-quality Oriental tobaccos for cigarettes. A dispute over business strategy lead to the dissolution of the company by the Court of Appeal's decision '' In re Yenidje Tobacco Co Ltd'' 916 __NOTOC__ Year 916 ( CMXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Sicilian Berbers in Agrigento revolt and depose the independent Emir Ahmed ibn Khorob. They offer Sicily to the Fatimid C ...2 Ch 426, which remains a leading authority on the dissolution of partnerships. References Rothmans UK Holdings Limited, Company History Tobacco companies of the United Kingdom Manufacturing companies established in 1913 Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1916 1913 estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giannitsa
Giannitsa ( , in English also Yannitsa, Yenitsa) is the largest city in the regional unit of Pella and the capital of the Pella municipality, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece. The municipal unit Giannitsa has an area of 208.105 km2. Its population is 32,410 people (2021 census). It includes a few outlying villages (Mesiano, Melissi, Pentaplatanos, Archontiko, Ampelies and Damiano). The municipality Pella as a whole includes many villages and has 57,039 inhabitants. The city is located in the center of Macedonia between Mount Paiko and the plain of Giannitsa, and is the economic, commercial and industrial center of the Pella regional unit. European route E86 (Greek National Road 2) runs along the south of the city. The former shallow, swampy, and variable-sized Giannitsa Lake or (ancient) Loudias Lake, fed by the Loudias River and south of the city, was drained in 1928-1932 by the New York Foundation Company. It or the surrounding marshland were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yenidze
Yenidze is a former cigarette factory building in Dresden, Saxony, Germany built between 1907 and 1909. Today it is used as an office building. It is notable for its Moorish Revival exterior design which borrows design elements from mosques and the Alhambra in Spain. The Yenidze Tobacco and Cigarette Factory () was a tobacco company started by the Jewish entrepreneur Hugo Zietz, which imported tobacco from Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Yenidze, Thrace (modern Genisea, Greece). The "Oriental" style of architecture recalled the exotic origins of the Oriental tobaccos it processed and functioned as advertising for the firm.Annemarie Jaeggi, ''Fagus: Industrial Culture from Werkbund to Bauhaus'', 2000, , p. 41 It has 600 windows of various styles; the dome is high. It makes great use of tiles for decoration: both complex colour patterns and unusual three-dimensional forms. The architect (the second husband of Angela Hitler) designed the building in 1907. It has large, colored dome chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanthi (regional Unit)
Xanthi (, ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Modern regions of Greece, Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. The capital is Xanthi. Together with the regional units Rhodope (regional unit), Rhodope and Evros (regional unit), Evros, it forms the geographical region of Western Thrace. Geography Xanthi borders the Bulgarian provinces of Smolyan Province, Smolyan and Kardzhali Province, Kardzhali to the north, and the Aegean Sea to the south. The regional unit of Kavala (regional unit), Kavala lies to the west, Drama (regional unit), Drama to the northwest and Rhodope (regional unit), Rhodope to the east. The Rhodope Mountains cover the northern part of the regional unit. The highest point is ''Koula'', at 1,827m. The coastal area has a predominantly Mediterranean climate, whereas the northern mountainous part has a colder continental climate. Administration The regional unit Xanthi is subdivided into 4 municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Macedonia And Thrace
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace ( ; , ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It consists of the northeastern parts of the country, comprising the eastern part of the region of Macedonia along with the region of Western Thrace, and the islands of Thasos and Samothrace. Administration Administrative history The region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace was established in the 1987 administrative reform as the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Region (. With the 2010 Kallikratis plan, its powers and authority were redefined and extended, with the preexisting region in many respects inheriting status and weight of the five now abolished prefectures, Drama, Evros, Kavala, Rhodope and Xanthi. In this special case, the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace also succeeds the intermediate structure of the two super-prefectures of Drama-Kavala-Xanthi and of Rhodope-Evros into which the five prefectures had been grouped since 1994. Current status The capital of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süleymaniye Mosque
The Süleymaniye Mosque (, ) is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Seven hills of Istanbul, Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent () and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An inscription specifies the foundation date as 1550 and the inauguration date as 1557, although work on the complex probably continued for a few years after this. The Süleymaniye Mosque is one of the best-known sights of Istanbul and from its location on the Third Hill it commands an extensive view of the city around the Golden Horn. It is considered a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture and one of Mimar Sinan's greatest works. It is the largest Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-era mosque in the city. Like other Ottoman imperial foundations, the mosque is part of a larger ''külliye'' (religious and charitable complex) which included madrasas, a Imaret, public kitchen, and a Bimaristan, hospital, among others. Behind the ''qibla'' wall of the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne), and the third-most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Saxony, Coswig, Radeberg, and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Dresden Basin, Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated, area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cigarette
A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into Rolling paper, thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder; the resulting smoke is orally inhaled via the opposite end. Cigarette smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption. The term ''cigarette'', as commonly used, refers to a tobacco cigarette, but the word is sometimes used to refer to other substances, such as a joint (cannabis), cannabis cigarette or a herbal cigarette. A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its usually smaller size, use of processed leaf, different smoking method, and paper wrapping, which is typically white. There are significant negative health effects from smoking cigarettes such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease, heart disease, birth defects, and other Health effects of tobacco, health problems relating to nearly every organ of the body. Most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriental Tobacco
Turkish tobacco is a small-leafed variety of tobacco. Its plants usually have a greater number and smaller size of leaves than American tobacco, and are typically sun-cured. These differences can be attributed to climate, soil, cultivation, and treatment methods. Historically, it was cultivated primarily in Thrace and Macedonia, which are now divided among Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, and Turkey; but, it is now also grown on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, in Egypt, in South Africa, and elsewhere. The name "Turkish" refers to the Ottoman Empire, which ruled the historic production areas until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term Oriental tobacco has also been used for the leaf. History Tobacco originated in the Americas and was introduced to the Ottoman Turks by the Spanish. The Ottoman people over time developed their own method of growing and using tobacco. Many of the early Ottoman brands of cigarettes were made mostly or entirely of Turkish tobacco; to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
