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Nikaia, Attica
Nikaia ( el, Νίκαια, ''Níkaia''), known before 1940 as Kokkinia (, ''Kokkiniá''), is a suburb of Piraeus, in the southwestern part of the Athens Urban Area, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis in the Piraeus (regional unit), regional unit of Piraeus, and it is the seat and a municipal unit of the municipality. Geography Nikaia is located north of Piraeus, and west of central Athens. The municipal unit has an area of 6.649 km2. The main streets are Gregoris Lambrakis, Gregori Lambraki Street and Petrou Ralli Street. Transport Nikaia metro station, Nikaia Athens metro, metro station of Line 3 (Athens Metro), line 3 situated on the city. Also served by buses (OSY). History On August 17, 1944, took place the Executions of Kokkinia. It was the largest Nazi roundup and one of the largest-scale war crimes perpetrated during the German occupation of Greece. Nikaia, like many other places around Greece, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attica (region)
Attica ( el, Περιφέρεια Αττικής, translit=Periféria Attikís, ) is an administrative region of Greece, that encompasses the entire metropolitan area of Athens, the country's capital and largest city. The region is coextensive with the former Attica Prefecture of Central Greece. It covers a greater area than the historical region of Attica. Overview Located on the eastern edge of Central Greece, Attica covers about 3,808 square kilometers. In addition to Athens, it contains within its area the cities of Elefsina, Megara, Laurium, and Marathon, as well as a small part of the Peloponnese peninsula and the islands of Salamis, Aegina, Angistri, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, Kythira, and Antikythera. About 3,800,000 people live in the region, of whom more than 95% are inhabitants of the Athens metropolitan area. In 2019, Attica had the HDI of 0.912, the highest in Greece. Administration The region was established in the 1987 administrative reform, and until 2010 it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aris Nikaias
Aris Nikaias (full name Gymnastikos Athlitikos Omilos Aris Nikaias/ G.N.O. Aris Nikaias el, Γυμναστικός Αθλητικός Όμιλος Άρης Νικαιάς/Γ.Ν.Ο. Άρης Νικαίας) is a Greek multi-sport club based in Nikaia, Piraeus. The club was founded in 1973, when members of the club were detached from the nearby Ionikos. The club has divisions for many different sports. It has won four straight women's handball championships. Its logo is a star, and its colors are yellow and blue. Departments ;Team sports *Basketball team, the basketball team plays in Greek C Basketball League (2105–16) *Handball team, the handball team plays in A2 Ethniki Handball (2105–16) *Volleyball team *Water polo team The club has also departments in various individual sports. History Aris Nikaias was founded in 1973 by former members of Ionikos Nikaias. The club acquired departments in various sports. The most successful were the basketball, volleyball, and handball. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ionikos FC
Ionikos Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Ιωνικός) or Ionikos Nikaia is a Greek professional football club based in Nikaia, Piraeus, Greece, currently competing in the Super League Greece, the top-tier of the Greek football league system. From 1989 to 2007 Ionikos spent 16 out of 18 seasons in the Super League. During that span Ionikos finished as high as 5th-place in the league (on two occasions), was a finalist in the Greek Cup, and participated in the UEFA Cup. The club's colours are blue and white. History Foundation Ionikos was established in 1965, from a merger of local clubs Nikaia Sports Union and Aris Piraeus, with Alex Meraklidis as new club's first president. The club's early years were not easy, but, with the support of its fans, Ionikos slowly improved through the 1970s and 1980s and eventually reached the top division in 1989. The club's first promotion to the top flight was accompanied by unexpected problemsDimitris Melissanidis withdrew as chairman, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neapoli Stadium
Neapoli Stadium is a football stadium in Nikaia, Piraeus, Attica. The stadium was completed in 1965, and currently has a seating capacity of about 6,000. The stadium is mostly used for football matches and is the home field for Ionikos F.C. Record attendance is 6,565 for a match against Olympiacos F.C. Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. ), known simply as Olympiacos or Olympiacos Piraeus, is a Greek professional football club based in Piraeus, Attica. Part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP ('' ... in 1990. On June 13, 2009, it was also used as the field for the Rugby Sevens' finals of the Hellenic Rugby Federation. Members Club While Ionikos was competing in the lower divisions there were two main supporters' groups—the Association of Ionikos Nikaias Supporters and the Fan Club of Agios Georgios. References External links Neapoli Stadium profile at Stadia.gr* http://hellenicrugbynews.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proodeftiki
Proodeftiki Football Club, also known as Proodeftiki Piraeus, simply as Proodeftiki, or with its full name as A.O. Proodeftiki Neolea ( el, Αθλητικός Όμιλος Προοδευτική Νεολαία, transliterated "Athlitikós Όmilos Proodeftiki Neolea", ''Athletic Club Progressive Youth''), is a Greek football club, part of the major multi-sport club A.O. Proodeftiki Neolea, based in Korydallos, Piraeus – Attica. The club has a longstanding presence in Super League, having participated so far 15 times. History Formation and early years The club exists since 1925. The official year of its foundation is 1927. Founded in Kokkinia, a suburb of Piraeus, which is the older name of Nikaia, a few years later by the "Asia Minor Catastrophe". Kokkinia, the older name of Nikaia, inhabited mainly by Greeks and Armenians refugees who inhabited the coast of Asia Minor. Hellenic Football Federation was founded on 1926. Proodeftiki, one of the older members of Hellenic Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikaia Municipal Gymnasium
The Nikaia Municipal Stadium ( el, Δημοτικό Γήπεδο Νίκαιας) or simple Nikaia stadium ( el, γήπεδο Νίκαιας) is a football stadium in the Piraeus suburb of Nikaia. It is the main playing field for the local Proodeftiki F.C. playing team, and is colloquially known by the name "Proodeftiki Stadium". It is located 2 km east of the Neapoli Stadium, home of the Proodeftiki's local rival Ionikos F.C. Ionikos Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Ιωνικός) or Ionikos Nikaia is a Greek professional Association football, football club based in Nikaia, Attica, Nikaia, Piraeus, Greece, currently competing in the Super League Greece, the top-tier of th ... References Football venues in Greece Sports venues in Attica Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis Proodeftiki F.C. {{Greece-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platon National Sports Centre
Platon may refer to: People * Plato (Πλάτων, romanized as ''Plátōn''), Greek philosopher * Plato (comic poet) (fl. 420–391 BCE) * Plato of Bactria (2nd century BCE), Greco-Bactrian king * Plato (exarch) (fl. 645–653), Byzantine exarch of Ravenna * Platon, obscure ancient Greek writer of uncertain date, whose attributed works share a name with those of Aristagoras (poet) * Plato of Sakkoudion (735–814), Byzantine saint * Platon Levshin (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow * Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992), Greek archaeologist * Platon (Kulbusch) (1869–1919), Estonian Orthodox Church bishop of Tallinn and all Estonia * Platon Chirnoagă (1894–1974), Romanian Brigadier-General during World War II * Platon (photographer) (born 1968), Greek-English photographer Places * Platoń Platoń is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czarnożyły, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Czarnożyły, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes compete, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries, with 301 medal events in 28 different Olympic sports, sports. The 2004 Games marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance, and also marked the first time Athens hosted the Games since their first modern incarnation in 1896 Summer Olympics, 1896 as well as the return of the Olympic games to its birthplace. Athens became one of only four cities at the time to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games on two occasions (together with Paris, London and Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall
The Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall is an indoor arena in Nikaia, in Piraeus. It hosted the weightlifting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. The venue was officially opened on August 14, 2004, the day after the beginning of the Games. The building had a capacity of 5,100, though only 3,500 seats are publicly available for the games. History After the 2004 Olympics, the facility has hosted fencing competitions, but was recently turned over to the University of Piraeus The University of Piraeus (UniPi; el, Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς, ΠαΠει) is a Greek public university located in Piraeus, Greece with a total of ten academic departments focused mainly on Business Management, Computer science, ..., for use as an academic lecture and conference center. References Indoor arenas in Greece Venues of the 2004 Summer Olympics Sports venues in Piraeus Olympic weightlifting venues Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis Weightlifting in Greece {{Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the programme at the Atlanta 1996. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins. Modern handball is played on a court of , with a goal in the middle of each end. The goals are surrounded by a zone where only the defending goalkeeper is allowed; goals must be scored by throwing the ball from outside the zone or while "diving" into it. The sport is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball, Czech handball (which were more common in the past) and beach handball. The game is fast and high-scoring: professional teams now typically score between 20 and 35 goals each, though lower scores were not uncommon until a few decades ago. Body contact is permitted for the def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the most goals at the end of the game wins the match. Each team is made up of six field players and one goalkeeper. Excluding the goalkeeper, players participate in both offensive and defensive roles. It is typically played in an all-deep pool where players cannot touch the bottom. A game consists mainly of the players swimming to move about the pool, treading water (mainly using the eggbeater kick), passing the ball, and shooting at the goal. Teamwork, tactical thinking and awareness are also highly important aspects. Water polo is a highly physical and demanding sport and has frequently been cited as one of the most difficult to play. Special equipment for water polo includes a water polo ball, a ball of varying colors which floats on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
