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The Greek National Anthem

Imagery and text : compiled from several Net sites

Conception and format : Delza Dias Ferreira delzadfer@gmail.com

Revision and English version : Flavio Musa de Freitas Guimarães

Musics : Melina Merkouri - Ta paidia tou Pirea Mikis Theodorakis – “Syrtaki”

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Column 450-330 B. C. photo by Aimilios

Petrou

1. Attica2. Central Greece – Continental3. Central Macedonia4. Crete5. East Macedonia and Thrace6. Epirus7. Ionean Islands8. North Aegean9. Peloponese10. South Aegean11. Thessaly12. West Greece13. West Macedonia

Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα ), officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country whose mainland and most of its islands are in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula.Ancient Greece is often referred to as "the cradle of Western civilization”. The first known Greek civilizations dates from 3000 B. C. Administratively, Greece consists of 13 peripheries subdivided into a total of 54 prefectures. There is also one autonomous area, Mount Athos (Agio Oros, "Holy Mountain"), in Macedonia Periphery.

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Thessaloniki - The Arch of Galerius

Thessaloniki - Aristotelous Square. Thessaloniki is Greece's second largest city and a major economic, industrial, commercial

and cultural center.

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Thessaloniki - Iktinou street in the center

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Thessaloniki - a magical city

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Thessaloniki - Aristotelous Square with Olympion Theatre on the left.

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Thessaloniki - The seafront Nikis Avenue

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Thessaloniki - Thessaloniki City Walls

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Thessaloniki - Music Hall

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Part of Thessaloniki's old market (Modiano-Kapani)

Greece – 3 Central Macedonia

Heraklion or Iraklion

Greece – 4 Crete

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Greece – 4 Crete

Agios Nikolaos at sunset

Vergina - A diadem from 4th century BC discovered in

one of the Macedonian royal tombs.

Greece – 4 Crete

Hania - the old Venetian port. Hania is one of the most beautiful Greek towns and the old port, one of the most

romantic places in Greece.

Greece – 4 Crete

Tertsa - one of a few hippies living on Crete and his donkey

Greece – 4 Crete

Rethimno - an old Venetian port

Greece – 4 Crete

Lasithi - Christos Neophytou

Greece – 4 Crete

Xanthi - on the road to Fanari

Greece – 5 East Macedonia

Kavala from Citadel

Greece – 5 East Macedonia

Chios – Pirgi – a place where somebody has a chance to live in

medieval houses with modern conveniences.

Greece – 8 North Aetean

Molyvos (Mythymna) – Lesvos – meal in a restaurant…

Greece – 8 North Aetean

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Greece – 8 North Aetean

Chios – Avgonima – A village of 11th century. The houses are built of stone with characteristic small windows which were used as loopholes against

possible attacks of pirates.

Kastoria - Greek dancers

Greece – 13 West Macedonia

Rhodes - Commercial Harbor and Arnaldus Gate

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Dodekanisos

Rhodes - Comercial Harbor

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Dodekanisos

Antiparos - parade at national day 25 Mars

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Naoussa - Naoussa's Carnival Festivities

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Santorini – Fira – Fira is the capital of the island .

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Tinos

Santorini - Fira, Caldera - Nea Kameni

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Santorini – Oia - arrival, with view of the donkey trail

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Santorini – Oia - the city is at the top of the caldera of a volcano

Koufonissia - nude and dance

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Mykonos - Taverns below the Church of the Panagia Portiano.

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

Syros

Now… from Syros, we leave the Islands…

Greece – 10 South Aegean - Kyklades

while…

… somewhere in Greece , a happy man dances

“Syrtaki”...

The End