2017 in Greece

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Events in the year 2017 in Greece.

Incumbents

• President: Prokopis Pavlopoulos
• Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras

Events

• Michael Skibbe is manager of the Greece National Football team. ^[1]

January

• Greek and Turkish warships engaged in a brief standoff over contested Aegean islets, keeping tensions high. ^[2]
• Greece is given a rating of 35/40 regarding political rights, and a rating of 49/60 regarding civil liberties, by Freedom House. ^[3]

May

• 13 May – A train derailment in Adendro killed three people and hits a house. ^{[4] [5]}
• 13 May - "This Is Love", performed by Demy, represents Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest. ^[6]
• 18 May - UPSat is deployed from the International Space Station, making it the first satellite manufactured in Greece to get into orbit. ^[7]

June

• 12 June – The 6.3 M_w Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing one and injuring ten.

July

• 21 July – The 6.6 M_w Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing two and injuring 480. ^[8]

September

• 9 September - The Greek FIBA team reaches the quarterfinals of the FIBA EuroBasket 2017, losing to Russia 69-74 in the process. ^[9]

November

• The Greek association football team reaches the playoffs of FIFA World Cup qualification, losing to Croatia 4-1 on aggregate in the process. ^[10]
• 15 November – In one of the greatest disasters in the area in decades, flash floods hit Western Attica, particularly the Athens suburb of Mandra, killing twenty-three. ^{[11] [12]}

December

• December – Rebetiko, a Greek music genre, is added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. ^[13]

Deaths

Konstantinos Mitsotakis

• 13 January – Magic Alex, or Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics engineer (b. 1942). ^[14]
• 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP (b. 1913)
• 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP (b. 1954). ^[15]
• 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918). ^[16]
• 5 June – Georgios Masadis, footballer (b. 1944)
• 13 November – Yannis Kapsis, journalist and politician, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1929). ^[17]
• 16 December – Angela Kokkola, politician, former MEP (b. 1932). ^[18]

References

1. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Greece (2017)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
2. Karakasis, Vasileios P. (2019-07-03). "The 2017 incidents in the Aegean and Turkish foreign policy: using Q-methodology to examine Greek viewpoints". Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 19 (3): 451–472. doi:10.1080/14683857.2019.1628446. ISSN   1468-3857.
3. "Greece: Freedom in the World 2017 Country Report". Freedom House. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
4. Tagaris, Karolina (13 May 2017). "Three dead, 10 injured in Greek passenger train derailment". Reuters. Archived from the original on June 25, 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
5. "Adendro Greece Train Derailment". CWEB. 14 May 2017. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
6. "Kyiv 2017".
7. "UPSat: O πρώτος δορυφόρος ελληνικής κατασκευής". euronews (in Greek). 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
8. "M 6.6 - 11 km ENE of Kos, Greece". earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
9. "Greece at the FIBA EuroBasket 2017". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
10. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Greece (2017)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
11. "Τι αποκαλύπτουν οι δορυφόροι για την καταστροφή στη Δυτική Αττική". CNN.gr. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
12. "Στους 20 οι νεκροί από τις φονικές πλημμύρες: Η σορός ενός άνδρα εντοπίστηκε στη Μάνδρα". Left.gr. 2017-11-19. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
13. "UNESCO adds rebetiko to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list | eKathimerini.com". www.ekathimerini.com. 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
14. "Αλέξης Μάρδας: Όταν οι Beatles τον "έχρισαν" Magic Alex!" [Alexis Mardas: When the Beatles called him Magic Alex!]. Newsit.gr (in Greek). 13 January 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
15. "New Democracy MP dies of heart attack at age 63". ekathimerini.com. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
16. "former Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis dies". ekathimerini.com. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
17. "Veteran journalist, politician Yiannis Kapsis dies | eKathimerini.com". www.ekathimerini.com. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
18. Πέθανε η Αγγέλα Κοκκόλα (in Greek)