Irene "Rena" Vlahopoulou was a Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu.
Vasilis Dimitriadis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Larissa railway station is the main station for Larissa in Thessaly, Greece. Located in a residential area, close to the city centre, it is served by InterCity trains between Athens and Thessaloniki, Express services to Kalambaka, Regional services to Volos and the southern terminus for Line 1 of Proastiakos services to Thessaloniki. Larissa railway station should not be confused with Larissa Station in Athens.
Irene "Rena" Koumioti was a Greek musician. She also appeared briefly in film and on television.
Ioanna-Maria Gertsou is a representative of the Greek guide dog movement, through "Lara Guide-Dog School" a non - profit organisation that she co-founded in 2008. She is visually impaired due to retinopathy of prematurity. She is mostly known as "Lara" is the first guide dog related organisation of Greece. She is an activist, promoting human diversity, guide dog access, physical and electronic accessibility and animal rights.
The Greece Amputee Football Association is the Greek governing body of amputee football and represents Greece at international events and competitions. In February 2016, Amputee Football Greece became the 14th member of the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF).
Orfana railway station is a railway station in Orfana, Karditsa, Thessaly, Greece. It is located just east of the village. Opened in 1995, replacing an older station of the same name.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Greece was held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. This was the first to take place after Brexit.
Doxaras railway station is a railway station in Doxaras, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. The station is located 550m west of the centre of the settlement, on the Piraeus–Platy railway, 184 kilometres (114 mi) from Thessaloniki, and is severed by Reganal stopping services, and sees two trains a day.
The Executions of Kokkinia took place on the August 17, 1944, and was the largest Nazi roundup and one of the largest-scale war crimes perpetrated during the German occupation of Greece. The operation was carried out by members of the Luftwaffe and collaborationist Security Battalions, and involved the execution of hundreds of civilians, thousands of hostages being sent to concentration camps, and the burning down of entire house blocks, as well as significant atrocities. The massacre was partly in retaliation for the Germans' defeat in Battle of Kokkinia five months before, on 4-8 March 1944. The leaders and members of the Security Battalions involved in the killings were never convicted by the Greek state.
Giannis Konstantelias is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Super League club PAOK and the Greece national team.
In the run-up to the next Greek legislative election, various organizations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Greece. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous legislative election, held on 25 June 2023, to the present day.
Giannis Louloudis is a Greek Sneaker Collector and reseller.
Georgios Moschos was a Greek professional basketball player. He played for Panellinios Athens, Iraklis Salonica, and AEK Athens basketball clubs and died from lymphoma at the age of twenty-nine. He was nicknamed Piccolino.
The Orfana rail disaster occurred on 16 January 1972 when, at around 16:45, a breakdown in communication between the corresponding stationmasters at Doxaras and Orfana caused an express train and a military relief train to collide in bad weather on the single track line. Twenty-one people died, and more than forty were injured in one of the deadliest rail accidents in Greece. Nikolaos Gekas, the stationmaster at Orfana, was later sentenced to five years for his part in the disaster.
The Democratic Patriotic Movement “Niki" (Greek: Δημοκρατικό Πατριωτικό Κίνημα “Νίκη”, romanized: Dimokratikó Patriotikó Kínima “Níki”), often shortened to simply Niki (Victory), is a far-right political party in Greece. It was founded by educator Dimitris Natsios in 2019. In the parliamentary elections of June 2023, the party received a percentage of 3.70%, electing 10 deputies to the Hellenic Parliament in which today, it forms the 7th Parliamentary Group.
The Special Antiterrorist Squad, is the elite counterterrorism unit of the Cyprus Police force. The unit was formed in 1978 and falls under the operational umbrella of the Mobile Immediate Action Unit.
