Category: GREECE
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University of Athens 180th Anniversary: History, Celebrations and Social Solidarity
The oldest University of Greece, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), turns 180 in 2017. To mark this anniversary, a series of events have been programmed. The International Conference on “Hellene, Greek, Romios: Collective Identifications and Identities”, that took place in Athens from 19 to 21 January 2017 was the main celebratory event of that month. Greek News…
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Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden attends feting of Lesbos Mayor with the Olof Palme Prize
The mayors of Lesbos, Greece Mr. Spyridon Galinos and Lampedusa, Italy Ms. Giusi Nicolini were honored with the 2016 Olof Palme Prize at a ceremony held at Sweden’s national legislature, the Riksdag. In attendance were the ambassadors of Greece and Cyprus, Dimitrios Touloupas and Andreas Kakouris, Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, the widow…
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“GR80s”: get to know the Greece of the’80s through an exhibition!
The first major participatory exhibition in Greece is a fact, and it is about the 1980s. Besides, it is bilingual and, therefore, particularly friendly to foreign visitors of the city too. Photos, clothes, all kinds of souvenirs and memorabilia, toys, pieces of furniture, audiovisual records and anything you can imagine will be among the exhibits on…
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Egyptian army chief of staff discusses military cooperation with Greece’s navy chief
Egypt’s army Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazi met on Monday in Cairo with the Chief of Greece’s Navy General Staff Nikolaos Tsounis for talks over means of expanding joint military cooperation, a statement by the Egyptian Armed Forces read. Egyptian army spokesman Tamer El-Rifaei said that the talks involved several issues of common interest, including…