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One year without Lily. Lily Papagianni (Λιλή Παπαγιάννη) was an emblematic vintage greek actress that died in 12 of May 2015 at 80 years of age. She starred in many greek films and theatrical shows and she was also married to greek actor Andreas Filippidis. They opened a theatre together in 1965 and her first ever film role was in 1959. Goodbye Lily and thank you for the beautiful memories.

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A L E X A N D E R T H E G R E A T (for ilvalentinos)

‘how may a man become a god?'

'by doing something a man cannot do.’

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Greek singer, Konstantinos Frantzis

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Greek beauty - Anastasia Karanikolaou (origins from Thessaloniki)

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The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as The Greek Revolution, was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire. After a long and bloody struggle, and with the aid of the Great Powers, independence was finally granted by the Treaty of Constantinople in July 1832. The Greeks were thus the first of the Ottoman Empire’s subject peoples to secure recognition as an independent sovereign power. The anniversary of Independence Day (March 25, 1821) is a National Day in Greece, which falls on the same day as the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. Despite the Greek War of Independence not actually beginning on the 25th of March, it eventually became the official date on which the anniversary of the Revolution was celebrated.

Some of the most well-known personalities of the Greek Revolution are Laskarina Bouboulina, Athanasios Diakos, Yannis Makriyannis, Markos Botsaris, Theodoros Kolokotronis and Manto Mavrogenous.

The newly established Greek state would become a springboard for further expansion, and over the course of a century Macedonia, Crete, Epirus, the Aegean and other parts of Greece would also gain their freedom and unite with the new Greek state.

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Hellenes - The Children of the Light Photo project by Calliope Karvounis

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Meteora - Greece by Montse GB

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Cute Princess chubby-cheeks Alexandra Georgievna of Greece, future Grand Duchess of Russia, in two formal portraits from her childhood

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Women in Greece, c.1910s. (from Yanstan Collectibles)

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Girl from Greece (left) and girl from Mexico (right) in their traditional national costumes

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Greek word of the day ~ Metanoia - Μετάνοια

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Pelasgians

The name Pelasgians (Greek: Πελασγοί, Pelasgoí; singular: Πελασγός, Pelasgós) was used by some ancient Greek writers to refer to populations that were either the ancestors of the Greeks or preceded the Greeks in Greece, “a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably indigenous people in the Greek world”. In general, “Pelasgian” has come to mean more broadly all the indigenous inhabitants of the Aegean Sea region and their cultures before the advent of the Greek language.

During the classical period, enclaves under that name survived in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete, and other regions of the Aegean. Populations identified as “Pelasgian” spoke a language or languages that at the time Greeks identified as “barbaric”, even though some ancient writers described the Pelasgians as Greeks. A tradition also survived that large parts of Greece had once been Pelasgian before being Hellenized. These parts generally fell within the ethnic domain that, by the 5th century BC, was attributed to those speakers of ancient Greek who were identified as Ionians. Read More || Edit

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