Tag: Greece
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Marathon journey of Rio 2016 flame includes Rio Bridge in Greece
Organisers have revealed that the Olympic flame will visit Zakynthos, Corfu and the historic town of Marathon as part of a Greek odyssey before it is entrusted to the Rio 2016 Organising committee. As tradition dictates, the flame will be kindled from the rays of the sun in the ruins of Ancient Olympia on April…
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Greek-Cypriot author Georgiou wins 2016 European Literature Award
Greek Cypriot author Antonis Georgiou has received the ‘European Literature Award’ for 2016 for his book titled ‘An album of stories’, originally title: ‘Ena alpum istories’, published by ‘To Rodakio’. The European Literature Award started in 2009 by the EU in an effort to promote young successful authors in their home countries to a pan-European…
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Greek family opens it home to Syrian refugee families
A Greek family opened its home to two Syrian migrant families last week, moved by the plight of thousands who have fled a five-year war for the security of Europe and are stranded. As soon as Dimitris Spiridis arrived with a huge bag of croissants to hand out to migrants living in a sprawling border…
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Grow Greek Tourism Online’ initiative supported by Google
Users will have the opportunity to be trained on how they will upgrade their presence on the web Google announced at a press conference on Wednesday that it supports the initiative “Grow Greek Tourism Online.” In cooperation with the Economy, Development and Tourism Ministry and the National Greek Tourism Organisation as well as the Greek…