History
Historical facts and gestures from Antiquity to the present day. The protagonists and the peoples.
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Tríkala, city… not alienated!
We think we know Greece like the back of our hand. Yet the country—an Acropolis of a certain Europe—still holds many secrets from us. Take, for instance, Western Thessaly—the region I come from—and more specifically Trikala, the administrative center of the province of the same name. It lies in the heart of Hellas, serving as a gateway to Northern Greece for those traveling up from Athens, well past Delphi.
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Yórgos Ioánnou and his legacy
Yorgos Ioánnou—originally a pseudonym, later the legally adopted name of Georgios Sorolópis—was a distinguished and worthy writer of contemporary Greece. He was born in Thessaloniki in 1927 into a family of Greek refugees from Eastern Thrace, a region that had come under the control of the new Turkish state in 1923 following the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor (1919-1922), a conflict Greece lost.
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Welcome !
Welcome to greekcity.fr! I am delighted to be able to present to you today my new blog “GreekCity”, which we could translate into French “La Cité Grecque”, in short, a figure of the varied city [Πόλις], made up of geography and nature, as well as history and ethnography.
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The True Story of GreekCity
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