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WEB23 hours ago · Dimitrios Aristopoulos - September 10, 2024. Greece's tourism industry has bounced back post-pandemic, and, over the first seven months of this year, receipts-arrivals increased by up to 15.5 percent in 2024. This fall, the trend is expected to continue, boosting industry and government revenue.
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WEBA traditional recipe for Loukoumades, the delicious Greek fried puffs with honey. A Mediterranean version of stuffed mushrooms dishes would be the chicken Shawarma stuffed mushrooms recipe. Tsoureki, or Greek sweet bread, is a favorite delicacy throughout the Christmas and Easter holidays in Greece. This traditional recipe for Tsoureki includes ...
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WEB4 days ago · The Ethnic Cleansing of Greeks From Gallipoli in 1915. guest - September 5, 2024. Thousands of Greeks living on the Gallipoli peninsula in modern-day Turkey were victims of the ethnic cleansing and genocide of minorities, particularly Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians, in Asia Minor. By John Williams The facts are that in a period which began...
Greek Name Days Calendar: Who Celebrates Today
WEBWhich Greek name day does the Orthodox church celebrate today? According to Greece’s Orthodox tradition, every day of the year is dedicated to some Christian saint or martyr. When someone is named after one of these saints, that saint’s celebration day becomes his/her “name day.”
The Ancient Greek Ideals that Inspired American Independence
WEBJul 4, 2020 · The ideals that helped shape and develop the American democratic republic after 1776 owe a debt to the ancient civilization of Greece. All of America’s founding fathers had studied ancient Greek philosophy, drawing inspiration about morals, ethics and the sense of independence, all fundamental principles of a democratic society.
Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb: Archaeologist in Egypt Thrills with New Clues
WEBMar 7, 2024 · After two years of new excavation work, Dr Kathleen Martinez, a determined archaeologist who has been searching for Cleopatra’s tomb in Egypt since 2005 has released a new update on the whereabouts of the ancient Egyptian queen’s resting place. In 2022, Dr Kathleen Martinez told the world she and her team had discovered a …
Why Did Ancient Greek Actors Wear Theater Masks?
WEBNov 13, 2023 · Ancient Greek theater masks connected with Dionysian revelry. These qualities of transformation enabled actors to fully embody the gods and mythological entities that populated the stories of ancient Greece. This connection to embodiment was strongly associated with Dionysus, the god of wine. Greeks saw a relationship between a …
The Glorious History of the Ancient Greek City of Antioch
WEBApr 12, 2024 · Antioch on the Orontes, an ancient Greek city on the eastern side of the Orontes River, was one of the most glorious of all the Greek cities in the world. Home to hundreds of thousands of people in its golden age, it was known as “The Second Rome” and subsequently “the Cradle of Christianity” before it experienced so many cataclysmic ...
Patmos: The Greek Island of John’s Revelation
WEBJun 19, 2024 · The Greek island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea is best known as the location where the Apostle John received and wrote the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. According to ancient Greek mythology, Patmos used to be at the bottom of the sea. It could only be seen when the moon shone above it.
Top Ten Most Spectacular Greek Archaeological Discoveries of 2020
WEBJun 6, 2021 · Exquisite pottery shell and other objects found at the Akrotiri site. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece. Exquisite pottery was unearthed at Akrotiri, the ancient settlement on the Greek island of Santorini, early in 2020.. Most of the Greek archaeological discoveries at the site are related to the everyday life of the people who lived on the island before the volcanic explosion which ...
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