Konitsa is a town of Ioannina in Epirus, Greece. It is located north of the capital Ioannina and near the Albanian border. Konitsa lies northeast of a group of villages known as the Zagorochoria. The town was built amphitheatrically-shaped on a mountain slope of the Pindos mountain range from where it overlooks the valley where the river Aoos meets the river Voidomatis.
General Bank of Greece was a Greek financier group that provided complete banking and financing services. It was founded in 1937.
Millennium Bank was a Greek bank. It was headquartered in Kallithea, Athens metropolitan area. It was founded in 2000 as Nova Bank, but on 10 November 2006 was renamed to Millennium Bank, in order to conform with the worldwide "Millennium" brand of its then parent company Millennium BCP of Portugal.
Proton Bank was a Greek bank that was established in 2001 and was taken over by the government in 2011. The bank offered private and corporate banking services.
Himariote Greek is a dialect of the Greek language that is mainly spoken by ethnic Greeks in the Himara region of Albania. Despite the small distances between the settlements in the region, there exists some dialectal variation, most prominently in accent.
Aspioti-ELKA was one of the largest publishing and printing enterprises of Greece. Founded in 1873 in Corfu by Gerasimos Aspiotis as a factory manufacturing playing cards under the name Elpis it eventually merged with the Etairia Lithographias kai Kytiopoieias Athenon (ELKA) and finally became Aspioti-ELKA.
Miran Pastourma is a renowned pastourma and sujuk charcuterie business and market in Athens, Greece. The market has been in operation since 1922. It is considered the charcuterie of the connoisseurs. Despite the Greek economic crisis, Miran is expanding its business and has doubled in size to accommodate increased demand. The founder of the shop, Miran Kourounlian, is thought to be the man who brought pastourma to Athens for the first time. Miran is considered the largest company of its kind in the European Union. The flavour of pastourma coming from the historical enterprise permeates Euripides Street in the centre of Athens. Miran and its neighbor Arapian Cold Cuts are considered two of the historical establishments of Athens. Miran has been in the same spot in Euripidou Street since its opening in 1922. Miran is the recipient of multiple gourmet prizes.
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.
Legislative elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 20 September 2015, following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' announced resignation on 20 August. At stake were all 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament. This was a snap election, the sixth since 2007, since new elections were not due until February 2019.
The Athens Suburban Railway, is a five-line Proastiakos commuter rail service that connects the city of Athens with its metropolitan area and other regions beyond Attica, including Corinthia, Boeotia, Euboea and Achaea.
Menelaos Lountemis was the pen name one of the most important essayists in the Greek interwar period and post-World War II era. His pen name was inspired by his later homeland's river Loudias.
Star Academy is a Greek reality TV show, and a licensed version of Endemol's Star Academy. The series began on March 17, 2017 on the E Channel network and was completed on July 15, 2017. The Judges were Anna Vissi, Petros Kostopoulos, Nikos Mouratides, Nikos Karvelas and Natalia Germanou. A day prior the show's premiere, a program called Star Academy Kick off Live aired, which took place in the academy, the house of the contestants, and was presented by Katerina Kainourgiou and Themis Malis. There, three boys would sing live and people would vote their favourite; the boy with the most votes, would be the 16th contestant of the show. The show was renamed from the fifth live episode to Super Star Academy, due to Epsilon TV owing money to Endemol, the worldwide franchise's production company, which therefore prohibited the station from airing the show under its brand name.
In the run-up to the May 2023 Greek legislative election, various organizations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Greece during the term of the 18th Hellenic Parliament. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous legislative election, held on 7 July 2019, to the day the next election was held, on 21 May 2023.
The 2014–15 season is PAS Giannina F.C.'s 20th competitive season in the top flight of Greek football, 5th season in the Super League Greece, and 49th year in existence as a football club. They also compete in the Greek Cup.
Savvas Xiros is a Greek terrorist and member of Revolutionary Organization 17 (N17). He was arrested on June 29, 2002 at the Piraeus port after a bomb exploded in his hands. He was put on trial in 2003. He was convicted of life imprisonment for murders, robberies, explosions and participation in N17.
Assembly of Greeks is a far-right, ultranationalist Greek political party. It was founded by Artemis Sorras.
National Party – Greeks, formerly Greeks for the Fatherland, is a Greek far-right political party founded on 4 June 2020, by Ilias Kasidiaris, a former MP and spokesperson of Golden Dawn, who is currently serving a 13-year prison term for his involvement in the criminal organisation run by Golden Dawn, allegations for which he maintains his innocence.
The eighth season of Survivor Greece, the Greek version of the popular reality show Survivor, began airing on December 27, 2020 on Skai TV and also in Cyprus on Sigma TV. Giorgos Lianos will host alone for the first time, as Sakis Tanimanidis decided not to be a host for this season, due to his wife's pregnancy. Ten players and ten celebrities, who have been known in Greece through their work, are invited to survive on a deserted island, the exotic La Romana in Dominican Republic, having their luggage, the necessary clothes and basic food supply.
Eftychia (Efi) Achtsioglou, is a Greek lawyer, politician, and current SYRIZA MP since 2019.
After the collision of two trains near Tempi, Greece on 28 February 2023, protests broke out across Greece. Millions of people participated in vigils, protests, or riots in response to the perceived lack of safety measures. Railway unions declared strikes in protest of Greece's government failing to modernize the rail system. The protests are some of the largest in Greek history, comparable in size to those that took place in 2011 during the height of the Greek financial crisis.
