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WEB1 day ago · Cruise Ship Tourists Face €20 Tax to Visit Santorini and Mykonos. Tasos Kokkinidis - September 9, 2024. Greece announced it plans to impose a 20-euro tax on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a bid to avert overtourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday.
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WEB3 days ago · Greece’s Economic Crisis and Its Consequences. Dimitrios Aristopoulos - September 1, 2024. Of all the challenges Greeks have struggled with during the last decades, the most significant and traumatic has been the Greek government-debt crisis of 2010. It was an event that changed the lives of tens of millions of people, especially...
Patmos: The Greek Island of John’s Revelation
WEBJun 19, 2024 · The Greek island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea is best known as the location where the Apostle John received and wrote the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. According to ancient Greek mythology, Patmos used to be at the bottom of the sea. It could only be seen when the moon shone above it.
The World Turns Greek on March 25 to Mark Greece’s Bicentennial
WEBMar 21, 2021 · Credit: Greek Reporter illustration. The entire world will turn Greek to mark Greece’s bicentennial, celebrated on March 25, 2021, commemorating 200 years since the declaration of its War of Independence.. In every corner of the globe where members of the Greek Diaspora are present, the anniversary will be marked. Iconic landmarks in all of those countries will be illuminated in blue and ...
The Great Fighters of Greece’s War of Independence
WEBMar 24, 2018 · Portrait by Dionysios Tsokos. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain (April 3, 1770 – Feb. 4, 1843). Kolokotronis is the iconic leader of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.. Kolokotronis was born in Ramavouni in Messenia into a family of rebels and grew up in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese.The Kolokotronis clan was powerful and respected in Arcadia in the ...
Has Cleopatra's Tomb Finally Been Found? - GreekReporter.com
WEBMay 20, 2023 · The tunnel beneath the temple at Taposiris Magna. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Archaeologists recently discovered an underground tunnel, which may lead to the long-lost tomb of the Greek Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, beneath Egypt’s ancient Taposiris Magna Temple.. Cleopatra was a Greek and the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt from 51 to 30 B.C.E.
Greek Name Days Calendar: Who Celebrates Today
WEBWhich Greek name day does the Orthodox church celebrate today? According to Greece’s Orthodox tradition, every day of the year is dedicated to some Christian saint or martyr. When someone is named after one of these saints, that saint’s celebration day becomes his/her “name day.”
The 12 Greek Gods and Their Unique Superpowers
WEBMay 30, 2024 · The war-god Ares was rebranded as Mars. Only Apollo, who was revered by successive Roman emperors, retained his Greek name. The twelve Greek gods are Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, Hephaistos, Hermes, Ares, Athene, and Dionysos. Other divinities in Greek mythology often associated with them include Hades, Hekate, and ...
Why Was Socrates Killed? - GreekReporter.com
WEBAug 11, 2024 · The defendant, Socrates, was a 70-year-old philosopher whose teachings profoundly influenced the city’s youth and intellectual landscape. His execution by drinking poison hemlock remains a poignant episode in Western philosophy. Understanding why Athens killed Socrates reveals much about its sociopolitical and cultural dynamics.