History
Historical facts and gestures from Antiquity to the present day. The protagonists and the peoples.
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Thessaly Flooded
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Code Name: HEW/LGAT
The memory of a country is sometimes linked to the reputation of its airports… even abandoned ones. From a childhood shared between Athens and Thessaly, I will always remember the attraction exerted on us by the site of Ellinikó, in other words, the historic airport of Athens, known by the international code: HEW/LGAT.By chance we were living at the time in the Heliopolis district and the rue… of Thessalie, beautiful… location I must say, under Mount Hymettus, exactly opposite the airport, the sea before our eyes.Heliopolis, not from Egypt but from the great Athenian East. Childhood dreams.
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August 1922. The Great Disaster
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In Tríkala, Cramped!
The Trikala region of western Thessaly—where I come from—and above all its eponymous capital, are renowned for their composers and virtuosos of Greek popular music. This music is often broadly categorized under the umbrella of songs belonging, directly or indirectly, to the Rebetiko genre—a wide-ranging musical form associated with the cultural expression of the working classes and the largely urban marginalized, emerging in the early 20th century.
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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.