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Post by leandros nikon on Jan 4, 2023 18:32:51 GMT -5
"there's no need to repeat the same things again and again.we just disagree.This thread is locked for now,the last posts are irrelevant to it's subject.this thread is for biographies of prominent modern Greeks only."
Stay on topic!
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Post by leandros nikon on Jan 4, 2023 18:28:00 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
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Post by leandros nikon on Jan 3, 2023 16:55:31 GMT -5
Η ΚΥΠΡΟΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ Η ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ!
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Post by leandros nikon on Jan 3, 2023 16:53:25 GMT -5
Yes,these Orthodox fathers that you talk about,are Greek orthodox christians from Asia minor.That's why they happen to have Greek names and they preached in the Greek language.Which was the lingua franca of the Byzantine empire,also known as Imperium Graecorum.you understand?
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Post by leandros nikon on Jan 2, 2023 18:47:54 GMT -5
this is the language that Alexander the great was speaking.Greek!
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Post by leandros nikon on Jan 2, 2023 18:21:30 GMT -5
yes we agree,Byzantines were Greek orthodox people.
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 28, 2022 16:07:42 GMT -5
Amele taburu/ Labour Battalions
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 28, 2022 15:54:23 GMT -5
yes,Turks are well known peace loving and democratic people.All of their neighbors concur.Turkish achievements in the region were not kept a secret.Mr Erdogan for instance is well known for his friendly emotions towards all of his neighbors.Syria,Iraq,Kurdish people,Armenia,Greece,Cyprus,Israel....
As an Asia minor Greek i know pretty well what happened to my people....There's a whole million of Greeks that went missing in the period 1919-1922.But dont worry.God's justice will prevail one day.
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 27, 2022 20:28:05 GMT -5
(WORK BATTALIONS - CONCENTRATION CAMPS) The Amele Taburu or work battalions were instituted by Turkey days before the outbreak of WW1. In effect they were concentration camps or hard labour battalions devised at the recommendation of German General Colmar von der Goltz and Liman von Sanders. The battalions were made up of men taken from the regular army, disarmed, and stripped of their uniforms. Those forced to work in the battalions were primarily made up of Greeks and also Armenians, in other words those considered as being sympathetic to the enemy. The plan was not only to disarm and isolate them, but to exterminate them without alerting foreign countries and creating international outrage. In 1914 Turkey mobilised all Greek men from the age of 21 to 45 and in July of the same year sent them to the interior of Turkey to Sou-Sehir in the region of Sevasteia (Sivas). The same fate awaited the Armenians who were mobilised in 1915 and were also sent to desolate regions of Anatolia. Hasiotis writes, ...both Armenians and Greek men who were fit to fight were conscripted into the notorious ‘labour battalions' (Amele Taburu) at more or less the same time, the purpose being the biological annihilation of both elements.1 The extermination of the Greeks and Armenians was carried out in many different ways. Firstly they were forced to work in the most severe of weather conditions for 18 hours a day. They were made to break rocks for the building of roads. They were made to dig, cut wood, clear snow from railroad tracks and some were even made to push train carriages. All these tasks were done without the necessary food and water and without the appropriate clothing when the weather was in many cases below zero and they were deprived of sleep. The exhaustion gradually took effect and the number of deaths increased from the dozens to the hundreds and eventually by the thousands. Hasiotis quotes the following from a Greek embassy report from Constantinople of the 6th of June 1915 (when the persecution of the Armenians was in full swing). The day before yesterday two (Greek) deserters from the Turkish army told us that between Hadem-Kioi, Chataldja, Yurt Tepe and Buyuk-Chekmedje more than 60,000 unarmed soldiers are working feverishly to construct a number of fortifications from one end of the shore to the other.... Of (these) 90% are Greeks and the rest Armenians, with a few Jews and Turks.1 Two months later Hasiotis quotes a similar report dated 15 August 1915. The Christian soldiers are in a frightful state. They are in danger of dying of starvation.... They are dying by the thousand of diseases, fevers, exanthematic typhus, and cholera....1 The tragic death of these ‘soldiers' led many to escape and to take refuge in the mountains or to hide in places where they felt the authorities wouldn't find them. The authorities took the matter of absconders very seriously. Those who were caught were tied up and walked to the court martial and were sentenced after a brief and mock trial. In some cases groups of officers entered houses of Greeks and Armenians to search for absconders and deserters, and in the process would pillage, rape women, harass old men and women in order to have them confess and in the end would burn their houses too. There were 2 reasons for isolating the Greeks and the Armenians in the work battalions. The first was the fear from the Turkish administration of a mass revolt by the Greeks and Armenians. And secondly, so that the Greeks and the Armenians wouldn't be able to defend themselves when the Turks took the measures to annihilate them. In Pontus, Greek men who escaped the Amele Taburu were able to organise themselves into groups. Their numbers were in the thousands, and they took to defending the remainder of the defenceless Greeks from further persecution. These defenders of the nation, freedom fighters or Antartes as they came to be called, took part in fierce battles with the Turkish forces and were able to protect the Greek population from further massacre. Perhaps the most well known account of the Amele Taburu is that of Elias Venezis in his book titled The Number 31328. Venezis was born in Ayvalik in 1904 but his family fled to Lesbos to avoid persecution. They returned in 1919 after the Hellenic Army landed in Smyrna. In September 1922 and at the age of 18, Venezis was put into a labour battalion. Of the 3000 that were in his battalion only 23 survived. In his book Venezis details the inhumane methods which the Turks used in the battalion. The film 1922 released in 1978 was inspired by the Venezis book. The film is sometimes called Smyrna 1922. References: • Encyclopaedia of Pontian Hellenism. Achilleas Anthemidis. • I.K.Hassiotis The Armenian Genocide: history, politics, ethics. Richard Hovannisian. Chapter 6. The Armenian Genocide and the Greeks. p.136
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 27, 2022 16:36:14 GMT -5
link.
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 26, 2022 16:20:24 GMT -5
look who's talking!
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 26, 2022 6:55:22 GMT -5
Pyro,are you kidding!
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 26, 2022 5:02:18 GMT -5
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 26, 2022 4:29:40 GMT -5
yes Rex,thank you.....and merry Christmas....
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 23, 2022 18:50:10 GMT -5
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 23, 2022 14:51:57 GMT -5
Thats what you say!The majority of modern Greeks are of Byzantine ancestry and these people always tend to consider the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as their spiritual leader.It is not a coincidence that the westeners were calling the Byzantine empire "imperium Graecorum".
And yes,we are able to assimilate foreigners and thats not a problem.We did so before and we will continue doing so.
Truth is usually somewhere between 0% and 100% no matter what you believe.Modern Greeks share some ancient Greek DNA with ancient Greeks and this is a fact proved by genetics.This is also true about the populations who share ancient Greek DNA in neighboring teritories of western Asia minor,south Balkans and south Italy.
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 23, 2022 13:56:23 GMT -5
First of all,the main criteria of nationality,is national concience.Pyro does not feel Greek and therefore he is NOT.He should change his nickname bcz it is a Greek name and he does not deserve it.Dont tell me about the Vlachs man,the most important benefactors of the modern Greek state were the Vlach benefactors,such as Averof,Arsakis,Tositsas,Zapas etc.
Also we should mention the Greek DNA.Genetics has proved that modern Greeks share some DNA with the ancient ancestors.Falmeryer was obviously wrong.
Pyro,do you believe in racial purity?Great,Adolf did believe in that too.
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 20, 2022 17:13:50 GMT -5
Antigone Costanda
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Costanda (right) in 1955
Antigone Costanda (Arabic: أنتيجون كوستان) (Greek: Αντιγόνη Κωνσταντά, born c. 1934 in Alexandria) is an Egyptian designer, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1954.The pageant took place on October 18, 1954, in London, England with the participation of 16 contestants. In addition to Arabic, Costanda speaks Greek, English, Italian and French fluently. The Greek-Egyptian beauty was the first Miss Egypt candidate to win the title of Miss World for Egypt.
According to Eric Morley's 1967 book, "The Miss World Story", Costanda was positively beaming as she claimed that her victory was also for the Miss World 1953 second runner-up status of Marina Papaelia.
The following year, during the 1955 Miss World beauty pageant held in London, Costanda did not attend the event because of political hostilities between Egypt and Britain over the Suez Canal. British actress Eunice Gayson crowned Miss Venezuela as the new Miss World.
Prior to winning Miss World, Costanda was gaining experience in the modelling profession and was appearing in numerous publications. Winning Miss World further helped her to reach the top of her profession, becoming a successful model in the Middle East, France, Italy and Greece. Her career in later years moved into interior design. She ran a company designing the interior of business buildings. She was one of the judges at the Miss Egypt 2006 contest.
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 18, 2022 15:21:55 GMT -5
Elisa E. Konofagou
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Post by leandros nikon on Dec 16, 2022 16:01:11 GMT -5
it depends on the personality of the girl.
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