Preveza is a city in the region of Epirus, northwestern Greece, located on the northern peninsula of the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf. It is the capital of the regional unit of Preveza, which is the southern part of the region of Epirus. The Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel –the first, and so far only, undersea tunnel in Greece– was completed in 2002. The 1,570 m (5,150 ft) long immersed tunnel connects Preveza in the north, to Aktio of western Acarnania to the south. The ruins of the ancient city of Nicopolis lie 7 kilometres north of Preveza.
Count Augustinos Ioannis Maria Kapodistrias was a Greek soldier and politician. He was born in Corfu and studied geology. Augustinos Kapodistrias was the younger brother of Viaros Kapodistrias and of the first Governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias.
Ioannis Theodoropoulos was a Greek pole vaulter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Evrytania. Theodoropoulos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Evangelos Damaskos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres.
Greece competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 44 competitors, all men, took part in 27 events in 7 sports. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.
Ioannis Kakridis was a Greek classical scholar and was one of the leading scholars of Homeric Poetry in the twentieth century.
Greece competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. 61 competitors, 60 men and 1 woman, took part in 44 events in 10 sports.
Greece competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 48 competitors, all men, took part in 38 events in 8 sports. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.
Panteleimon of Gjirokastër was a bishop of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. He was the metropolitan bishop of Gjirokastër (1937–1941) and later the President of the exiled Northern Epirus resistance faction KEVA after the end of World War II.
The Himara Revolt, was a Greek uprising during the First Balkan War that took place in the region of Himara, on November 18 [O.S. November 5] 1912. It successfully overthrew the Ottoman forces of the region, thus securing the coastal area between Sarandë and Vlorë for the Hellenic Army.
The Battle of Trebeshina or the Battle of Mal Trebeshinë was a series of engagements fought between the Greek and Italian armies in southeastern Albania during the Greco-Italian War. The twenty-day battle was fought on the strategic heights that make up the 26-kilometre-long (16 mi) Trebeshinë mountain range, notably Height 1923.
Lasso Fund was a community fund established in the town of Korçë in 1850 in order to safeguard donations and bequests of the local Orthodox diaspora. As a result, Greek-language schools for the Orthodox community as well as churches, pharmacies and hostels were opened in Korçë.
The Pan-Epirotic Assembly of Delvino was a meeting of the representatives of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, in June–July 1914, that ratified the Protocol of Corfu. The latter agreement granted an autonomous status for Northern Epirus, as well as a number of rights for the local Greek populations, inside the borders of the newly established Principality of Albania.
Ioannis (Yiannis) Dimitras is a Greek singer. He represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, performing seventeenth on the night, before Cyprus and after Belgium, with the song "Feggari kalokerino", and placed eighth out of twenty, with fifty-five points. He was a member of the Greek jury in 1996.
P. R. Thilagam, popularly known as Thiruvarur Thilagam, is an Indian composer, vocalist and exponent of Kuravanji, a traditional form of dance drama popular in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She hails from Kondi parampara of the Isai Vellalar community, a sect of women dedicated to the worship at Thyagaraja Temple, Tiruvarur.
Andreas Pavias was a Greek painter and educator, one of the founding fathers of the Cretan School. His works could be found in churches and private collections throughout Italy and Greece, where they influenced countless artists. Seven of these paintings survive today, six bearing Pavias's signature. The most famous of the group is a Crucifixion.
Ioannis Antoniou is an alpine skier from Greece. He competed for Greece at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
Ioannis Demertzis was a Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle from Serres.
Ioannis Evaggelopoulos was a Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle from Mikropoli, Drama.
Komat is a village in the former commune of Livadhe, Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality of Finiq. A 1993 study by Leonidas Kallivretakis found that the total population of the village was 309, all of them part of the Greek community in Albania.
Nikolaos Gripiotis aka Nicolò Gripioti, was a Greek painter and teacher. He was a prominent member of the Cretan School in the early 1500s, working alongside such practitioners as Michael Fokas and Giorgio Miçocostantin. No work survives bearing his signature, but documents from the period record thousands of icons produced by his workshop. Nikolaos's son Ioannis Gripiotis also became a prominent painter. The family was related by marriage to Arsenius Apostolius.
