Greek Minister Delegate for European Affairs Nikos Xydakis was referring to a recent ban on the celebration of mass at the Sumela Monastery in Trabzon, the decision of the Turkish authorities to authorize the reading of the Koran in Aghia Sofia in Istanbul and the change of position towards the Kurds. On Tuesday, Pavlopoulos said Turkey must apologize for the genocide of the Pontic Greeks and denounced the arbitrary decision of the Turkish authorities not to allow mass at the Sumela Monastery this year. In response, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that these statements had no historical or legal consistency.…
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ContentsEarly settlement Phases of island culture Foreigners on Easter Island Easter Island today Easter Island covers approximately 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean and is located approximately 2,300 miles off the west coast of Chile and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. Known as Rapa Nui to its first inhabitants, the island was named Paaseiland, or Easter Island, by Dutch explorers in honor of the day of their arrival in 1722. It was annexed by Chile to the end of the 19th century and today maintains an economy based largely on tourism. Easter Island’s most spectacular claim to fame…
By David Willey BBC correspondent in Rome Hundreds of rare and beautiful pieces are on display A world-class archaeological exhibition opened this week in Calabria, on the borders of Italy. Its subject is Magna Graecia, or Great Greece – the name given to the regions of southern Italy settled by the ancient Greeks 2,500 years ago. Modern European migrations are not new. But for the ancient Greeks,…
Gigi Fernandez comes from a family of highly educated people. Her grandmother, Dolores Pla, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was Puerto Rico’s first female dentist. His father, Tuto, was a renowned doctor and his two uncles earned their living as a neurosurgeon and urologist. Oh, and three of her siblings have master’s degrees. Fernandez attended Clemson University for a year – earning All-American honors in tennis – before opting to play professional tennis. “So the joke in my family when I was traveling around the world,” Fernandez said, “was that I was just another college dropout.” Was she…
“The United States realizes who the reliable regional actor is,” Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said in an interview with Skai TV on Saturday, referring to today’s meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Chania, Crete. ANA Reports. He noted that it was only a matter of time before Greece joined the F-35 program and stressed that Greek-US relations “have reached their peak.”As he said, the discussion between Mitsotakis and Blinken in the afternoon will focus on two axes: international developments regarding the two wars in our neighborhood. In both cases, he stressed,…
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Greek songwriter and bouzouki player Vassilis Tsitsanis. He was widely considered one of the founders of the modern rebetiko and laiko musical genre. The “zeibekiko” dance and the popular musical instruments “bouzouki”, “tzouras” and “baglamas” have been inscribed on the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Greece, the Greek Ministry of Culture recently announced. “Zeibekiko dance, bouzouki and similar musical instruments identify with Greece and its popular tradition. They played a leading role in Greek folk music in the 20th century,” said the Minister of Culture. Lina Mendoni said. According to Mendoni, “bouzouki”, “tzouras” and “baglamas” are the best-known…
By Jane O’BrienBBC News, WashingtonAugust 1, 2016To read this content, please enable JavaScript or try another browserVideo caption, A university start-up evolves after 15 years of activityIt’s been a little over a decade since Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard at the age of 19 to start Facebook.The social network made him the fourth richest man in America and a hero to any aspiring college entrepreneur.Of course, Zuckerberg was already a prodigy when he launched his global empire. But for those of more modest ability, there are now thousands of schools across the country offering entrepreneurship courses. The days seem to be…
The Greek Orthodox Church, the merchant class that created the revolutionary organization of brothers Filiki Eteria, Alexander and Demetrios Ypsilantis, inspired the successful outbreak of Greek independence in 1821. Fortunes were lost. A genocide of the Christian population was experienced by invading the Ottomans. The result: independence. The Orthodox Church became the only institution to function in Greek territory under Ottoman rule. They perpetuated the memory of the Christian Byzantine Empire. Primary and higher education created a sense of identity, taking on a secular and political role.1 Their leaders played a role in the Revolution of 1821. First martyred Greek…