Pelagias Song Italian and Athenian Mandolinata

Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a 2001 film directed by John Madden and based on the novel of the same name by Louis de Bernières. It stars Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz. The film was panned by critics on its release and disappointed fans by deviating somewhat from the plot of the novel, with many of the book's tragic episodes softened.
The main characters are Antonio Corelli, an Italian captain, and Pelagia, the daughter of the local physician, Dr. Iannis. An important event in the novel is the massacre of Italian troops by the Germans in September 1943.The idyllic beauty of Greece's Mediterranean islands has been invaded by Italy, bringing legions of soldiers to the once tranquil island of Cephallonia. Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer with an irrepressibly jovial personality and passion for the mandolin, initially alienates a number of the villagers, including Pelagia. The daughter of the village doctor, Pelagia is an educated and strong-willed woman, and while at first offended by the Italian soldier's behaviour, she slowly warms to his certain charms as they are forced to share her father's home.
When Pelagia's fiance, a local fisherman, heads off to war, the friendship between Antonio and Pelagia grows even stronger. Her beauty and intelligence have captured his heart and his fondness for the village's vibrant community causes him to question his reasons for fighting. Antonio becomes a part of the lives of the villagers, but the moment is fleeting. As the war grows ever closer, Antonio and Pelagia are forced to choose between their allegiance to their countries and the love they feel for one another-a love which must overcome tremendous odds, and endure the inevitable sacrifice which accompanies eternal devotion.

 Athenian Mandolinata

Mandolinata Guiness book of world records in Crete July 2011

My Greek Odyssey.com and Ellopos.net - Great Greek Info

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To some it may seem that I am obsessed, constantly writing and talking about things Greek. I am admittedly a poor excuse for a Greek. I wasn't born in Greece, neither were my parents or grandparents. I don't live in Greece, I am not a Greek citizen, don't have a Greek passport nor do I own property in Greece. 

You may be surprised to learn that I quite agree with you. Greeks are not better than any other nationality. I challenge you to find anything I have written that says anything of the kind.  

This of course does not mean that the innovative and exceptional brilliance of the Greeks does not stand out in sharp contrast to that of other civilizations. It was their curiosity,their relentless questioning, their drive to explain human existence that was the starting point for achievements in logic, criticism, history, philosophy, rhetoric, dialogue, tragedy and analysis.  

It is the critical consciousness handed down to us from the Greeks that is responsible for the ascendancy of the West.  Science, technology, individualism, liberal democracy, natural rights, no matter how they have been influenced by other factors, came to us originally from the Greeks.  All those "great and powerful" countries you talk about owe their success to the Greek values that they adopted. We are all Greeks.

The West has also been predominantly Christian. Christianity is a hellenized Hebraism.  A development and completion of it. It was the Greeks who made the spread of Christianity possible. It was the Greeks who brought it out of its birthplace into the known world. The Greeks made possible both the rationalism that fueled modernity and the moral counterforce that fulfilled the very real spiritual needs of human beings. 

Unfortunately, the modern West, despite its wealth and technological accomplishments, has morphed into a barren spiritual wilderness with a mediocre culture where appetite and its gratification are the driving forces. Its values may be your values but they are not my values. The people of the countries you speak of have not only abandoned Christianity in large numbers, they have abandoned the critical consciousness of the Greeks.  They have lost the understanding that Greeks had for the limits or inherent destructive implications of unbridled rationalism and freedom. 

Greece is a puny country, small and insignificant. Perhaps that is because they too have abandoned the wisdom of their ancestors in exchange for the illusory and transient wealth of the mighty.  Yet, even the puny can sometimes teach the mighty valuable lessons and Greek history, throughout the ages, is replete with such examples. 

Greeks are not constrained by boundaries and by the small minds that create them. Our values are timeless. I will continue to teach my children Greek values: to question and look at the world critically, to value the dignity and worth of the individual, to love freedom. More importantly, I will teach them the central importance of a loving God in their lives. 

You see Ardi, Greek values are universal values that we ignore to our detriment. They are not the  exclusive possession of the Greeks who gave them freely to the world nor are they something the mighty can buy.  A country's worth is not determined by its possessions or its power, it is  determined by the content of what is in the hearts and minds of its citizens.  Poverty of the soul is poverty of the worst kind.

   ELLOPOSnet

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Kyra-Frosini

Kyra-Frosini was the wife of Ioannina merchant Dimitrios Vasiliou, renowned in the area for her beauty and intelligence. As her husband was away for extended periods of time to Venice, on business, she met and had an affair with Muhtar Pasha who was the eldest son of the region's ruler, Ali Pasha.

The wife of Muhtar Pasha found out about the affair while her husband was away in Adrianople, went to Ali Pasha and demanded that he take action. Ali Pasha proceeded to arrest Kyra-Frosini in person and locked her up in prison along with 17 other women, also adulteresses. The arrest caused an uproar amongst Ioannina's Greek community and Ali Pasha hesitated to take action. Finally, two days later, on January 11, 1801, he ordered the 18 women to be drowned in Lake Pambotis. The execution took place but the local Greeks came to view the women - especially Kyra-Frosini - as martyrs of their faith and nation.

Kyra-Frosini was buried with honours and her two children were taken in by the Bishop of Ioannina who was her uncle.

Many songs and poems have been written on the subject with the view that she was a Christian woman who had fallen but repented and was unjustly executed. *wikipedia*

Poso kostizi mia zoi - Mitropanos and Basis - Stigmes - Papazoglous

Thimisou - Evdokia/ Gia to hatiri mias agapis - Spiropoulou

Xfactor 2011 - LA

Sti Fotia Rikse Xryssafi - Kaiti Garbi - Afieromeno

lianohortaroudia - Cabaret Balkan live on Radio Arvila - efharisto ksaderfoula ;-)

Μαρίνα Δακανάλη-Ανυφαντού - Thase perimeno - Ploutarhos

Η Μαρίνα Δακανάλη τραγουδάει μια παραδοσιακή Κρητική μαντινάδα, live στα "Αισχύλεια 2010" στο Παλαιό Ελαιουργείο στην Ελευσίνα, 3/9/2010

Tha Saltaro - Dalaras/ Ftoho Gitonia - Aslanidou - Bravo vre pedia !!!

Beautiful Turkish voice and Mikra Asia festival in Kavala

Σμύρνη πατρίδα μου γλυκιά

Χαριτωμένη χώρα

Για να σε βγάλω από το νου

Ποτέ δεν θα έρθει η ώρα

Σαν άστρο γλυκοφωτιστό

Θα λάμπεις στην ψυχή μου

Παρηγοριά στην Θλίψη μου

Και ελπίδα στην ζωή μου

Greek girl wows a Turkish Talent show !!!!!!!

Baglamadaki/Prinkipessa Glykeria 2011 live

Ti to thela kai sagapaga - Mitropanos 2011

Avgerinos - Orfeas Peridis - Beautiful collection of Photos - Aslanidou - Me hromata dikasou

Ena me sena - kelekidou/ omos den ksero - Aslanidou

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Kourkoulis 2011

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Lefkos Pyrgos

The Tower was used by the Ottomans successively as a fort, garrison and a prison. In 1826, at the order of the Sultan Mahmud II, there was a massacre of the prisoners in the Tower. Owing to the "countless victims of Ottoman torturers and executioners", the tower acquired the name "Tower of Blood" or "Red Tower" (Turkish: Kanli Kule), which it kept until the end of the 19th century.^[4]

The Tower was for centuries part of the walls of the old city of Thessaloniki, and separated the Jewish quarter of the city from the cemeteries of the Muslims and Jews.^[4] The city walls were demolished in 1866. When Thessaloniki was annexed from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State in 1912 during the First Balkan War, the tower was whitewashed as a symbolic gesture of cleansing, and acquired its present name. King George I of Greece was assassinated not far from the White Tower in March 1913.

The Tower is now a buff colour but has retained the name White Tower. It now stands on Thessaloniki's waterfront boulevard, Nikis (Victory) Street. It houses a museum dedicated to the history of Thessaloniki and is one of the city's leading tourist attractions. The Tower is under the administration of the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture. wikipedia

http://www.360cities.net/image/white-tower-of-thessaloniki-greece#102.90,-9.30,70.0

Alexander The Great

Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known asAlexander the Great (Greek: Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, Mégas Aléxandros), was a king of Macedon, a state in northern Greece. By the age of thirty, he had created of one of the largest empires inancient history, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. He was undefeated in battle and is considered one of the most successful commanders of all time.^[1] Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by the famed philosopher Aristotle. In 336 BC he succeeded his father Philip II of Macedon to the throne after Philip was assassinated. Philip had brought most of the city-states of mainland Greece under Macedonian hegemony, using both military and diplomatic means.

Upon Philip's death, Alexander inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. He succeeded in being awarded the generalship of Greece and, with his authority firmly established, launched the military plans for expansion left by his father. In 334 BC he invaded Persian-ruledAsia Minor and began a series of campaigns lasting ten years. Alexander broke the power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, most notably the battles of Issus and Gaugamela. Subsequently he overthrew the Persian king Darius III and conquered the entirety of the Persian Empire.^i[›] The Macedonian Empire now stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River.

Following his desire to reach the "ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea", he invaded Indiain 326 BC, but was eventually forced to turn back by the near-mutiny of his troops. Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, without realizing a series of planned campaigns that would have begun with an invasion of Arabia. In the years following Alexander's death a series of civil wars tore his empire apart which resulted in the formation of a number of states ruled by the Diadochi– Alexander's surviving generals. Although he is mostly remembered for his vast conquests, Alexander's lasting legacy was not his reign, but the cultural diffusion his conquests engendered.

Alexander founded some twenty cities that bore his name. His settlement of Greek colonists and the resulting spread of Greek culture in the east resulted in a new Hellenistic civilization, aspects of which were still evident in the traditions of the Byzantine Empire until the mid-15th century. Alexander became legendary as a classical hero in the mold of Achilles, and features prominently in the history and myth of Greek and non-Greek cultures. He became the measure against which generals, even to this day, compare themselves and military academiesthroughout the world still teach his tactical exploits.^{[1] ii[›]  "wikipedia"}

Evros Kitchen: λουλουδια του χωριου

Evros Kitchen: λουλουδια του χωριου

Fire in Central Evros - update

Fire in Central Evros - August 24.2011 smoke has reached as far as Alexandroupoli

ΩΡΑ 16.30
Στα χωριά Κοίλα και Μελία κατευθύνονται αυτήν την ώρα Αστυνομικές δυνάμεις για να ζητήσουν από τους κατοίκους να εγκαταλείψουν τα σπίτια τους αφού η φωτιά κινείται προς τα εκεί.
Η μάχη με τις φλόγες τελειωμό δεν θα έχει απ' ότι δείχνουν τα πράγματα στο Ν. Έβρου. Αυτήν την ώρα σε εξέλιξη βρίσκεται μεγάλη φωτιά που ξεκίνησε από την Λεύκιμη και κατεβαίνει προς τα νότια με μεγάλη ταχύτητα λόγω των ισχυρότατων ανέμων. Επί τόπου κάνουν συνεχείς ρίψεις νερού δύο πυροσβεστικά αεροπλάνα και το ελικόπτερο ενώ ισχυρότατες επίγειες δυνάμεις προσπαθούν να ανακόψουν την πορεία της.Η πορεία της είναι προς το Τριφύλλι και την Πυλαία ενώ τα μέτωπά της είναι πάρα πολλά. Ήδη έχει γίνει αντιληπτή και στην Αλεξανδρούπολη που λόγω του αέρα υπάρχει καπνός.

http://www.faros24.gr/epikairotita/kaigetai-simera-o-kentrikosevros.html 

  Δύο μεγάλες πυρκαγιές είναι σε εξέλιξη αυτή την ώρα στον 'Εβρο, στη Λευκίμη και στα Λουτρά.

Λευκίμης: 3 μεγάλα μέτωπα. Πυροσβέστες με ένα ελικόπτερο δίνουν μάχη με τις φλόγες στη Λευκίμη καθώς η έκταση της πυρκαγιάς είναι μεγάλη και στη περιοχή πνέουν δυνατοί άνεμοι με ένταση μεγαλύτερη των 10 μποφόρ. Μπροστά από την πυρκαγιά είναι το χωριό Τριφύλλη που όπως δείχνουν όλα θα απειληθεί.

Οι καπνοί είναι ορατοί μέσα από την πόλη της Αλεξανδρούπολης.

Ώρα 15:00

Οι ισχυροί ανατολικοί άνεμοι που πνέουν στη περιοχή έχουν αλλάξει τη κατεύθυνση της πυρκαγιάς στη Λευκίμη αλλά και στα Λουτρά προς τα δυτικά. 
Λευκίμης: Οι επίγειες πυροσβεστικές δυνάμεις δεν έχουν πρόσβαση για τη κατάσβεση της πυρκαγιάς λόγω του δύσβατου της περιοχής και αναμένονται δυνάμεις κατάσβεσης απο τον εναέριο χώρο.
Λουτρά: Έχει αποφευχθεί ο κίνδυνος στο χωριό των Λουτρών λόγω αλλαγής πορείας των ανέμων.

Ώρα 16:00

Δύο πυροσβεστικά αεροπλάνα τύπου καναντέρ προστέθηκαν στις δυνάμεις πυρόσβεσης.Πυρκαγιά Λευκίμης: Στήνονται αντιπυρικές ζώνες με οχήματα του στρατού αλλά και των κατοίκων του χωριού.Κινητοποιούνται οι στρατιωτικές δυνάμεις αλλά και οι δυνάμεις πρώτων βοηθειών του στρατού.

Ώρα 17:00

Προστέθηκε και ένα ελικόπτερο στις εναέριες δυνάμεις.
http://www.e-evros.gr/index.php?sec=85&cid=10779

Dhidhimoticho - Translated Twin Walls

http://www.edutube.org/video/didimoticho-greece


City of Thrace, seat of homonym province of prefecture Evros. It is built on the feet of a hill called Kale, in distance of 2,5 km from Turkey and is crossed from the tributary of Evros river, Erythropotamos (Red River). It allocates rich history and enough monuments and sightseeing. It abstains 99 km from Alexandroupoli, 437 km from Thessalonica, 948 km from Athens and 50 km from the Adrianupolis (Edirne Turkey). The residents of Didimoticho, as entire the province, they deal mainly with the agriculture and the livestock-farming. The euphoric grounds of region produce cerials, legumes, beets, corn and garlics. Also in the overhill regions livestock-farming is highly known to citizens, mainly cow farming, and is produced big quantities of meat, cheeses, butter and yogurt. 

The area around the town was founded at neolithic times. It was an important Thracian and Hellenistic town.The town was sacked by the Romans in 204. In the early 2nd century b.c, the Roman emperor Trajan creates a new city between the two hills surrounding the town and names it Plotinopolis, after his wife. The city would later be one of the most important town in Thrace, having her own Parliament.



http://www.didimoticho.8m.com/index.html

Nipson anomimat mi monan opsin

IΗ γνωστή καρκινική επιγραφή στην Αγία Σοφία

                                                                                                   










ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ

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Greek - Hagia Sophia

A label, which, according to tradition, was carved on a well outside the Greek Orthodox Church of Hagia Sophia of Konstantinoupolis:

Νίψον ανομήματα, μη μόναν όψιν
(Nipson anomimata, mi monan opsin - it turns out wrong in latin letters, as the Greek letter ψ corresponds to the sound ps)

It means " (When you enter this church) wash off your sins, not just your face".

In Greek, palindromes are called "cancer phrases", because they mimic the movement of the crab, which takes one step in one direction and one step in the other.


http://www.proz.com/forum/lighter_side_of_trans_interp/97966-palindromes_in_different_languages.html?float=true