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Cyclades. Village of Oia Santorini. Gate into heaven, Greece.
Κυκλάδες. Χωριό Οία Σαντορίνη . Πύλη γιά τον παράδεισο.
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Wife of dead Hellenic Navy officer, gives birth to their son 13 days after his death, the baby boy has been named after his father, Konstantinos Pananas.
On Thursday 11th of February, 3 officers of the Greek Navy lost their lives in a terrible accident near the isle of Kinaros under planned exercise on helicopter Agusta Bell 12
Copilot of the Helicopter Konstantinos Pananas (center) and Warrant Officer Eleftherios Evaggelou (right) were the first whose bodies were found , while the body of Pilot Anastasios Evaggelou (left) was found a day later.
13 days after the tragic accident, the wife of Konstantinos Pananas gave birth to their second son, a healthy newborn, the photo was uploaded by her doctor and close family friend as a farewell to his deceased friend.
“ Τοday I got a daughter, and a hero grandson, Marianna and your newborn son. Commander Constantine Pananas, my friend Kostas, allow me an also mere mortal … your trips were not recreational journeys, but journeys of faith to the task you sworn…journeys in the vast Hellenic blue.. they were journeys of an eagle above the aegean to protect us! Your long trips to the Hellenic seas brought you closer to us, to your Marianna, your Panagiotis and your little newborn hero that I held today in my arms…he will hear about the legend of his father with his friends but he will never have the opportunity to hug you!
Take care of us Commander!
Demetris Kakaletris. “
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Zozo Dalmas, the beautiful Greek diva with whom Kemal Ataturk fell in love and became the face of the emblematic greek “Sante” cigarettes.
Zozo Dalmas was one of the first Greek divas. She was born in Contantinople (now Istanbul) in 1905, started her career in the Greek city of Salonika back in the 1920s and she soon became an important actress and well-known operetta singer. But above all Zozo was one of the most beautiful women who lived in the Mediterranean area back then and her beauty helped her to become famous in Greece, Turkey, Syria, Cyprus and Egypt over the years. When she was 20 years old she appeared in a central theater in Constantinople. One night Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the famous founder of the Turkish Republic and its first President, happened to be in the audience and immediately fell in love with her. He courted her with flowers and gifts and they soon became a couple. Kemal spent a lot of money to please Zozo but the truth is she was more interested in the man than his power and wealth. Once she took a pair of scissors and cut-off the picture of Kemal’s face out of each and every Turkish banknote that he dared given her because as she told him “it is the only thing worth keeping out of this stuff!!”. Their affair was kept a secret because political relationships between Greece and Turkey were at an all-time low back then. Zozo lived an extraordinary and glamorous life in her youth; in the mid-1930s a painted picture of a smiling blonde woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to her appeared on the packages of the popular Greek brand of cigarettes “Sante”(as a matter of fact, the brand still uses the very same picture on their products till now-days); in the 40s she was even the inspiration for a couple of Greek rebetiko songs including the legendary in Greece “Derbenterissa” written by the master singer/composer Vasilis Tsitsanis.
Her stormy relationship with Kemal Ataturk along with her friendship with Greek governor Eleftherios Venizelos had it’s consequences on public. Rumor had it that she was a double spy, spying on Kemal at the behest of Eleftherios Venizelos.
She had said to Dimitris Liberopoulos, however. “I was not a spy, just a Greek patriot… And all my diamonds given to me by Egyptian princes and pashas I gave to poor girls and family members …”
She continued to appear on stage till the 50s but unfortunately old-age found her totally penniless and forgotten by most, living in a miserable hovel; she continued however to be a coquette and a flirt till her final days!
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Thessaloniki (also known as SalonikiorSalonica) is the second-largest city in Hellas (Greece), with 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia. It is also known in Greek as η Συμπρωτεύουσα (i Simprotévousa), literally “the co-capital”, a reference to its historical status as the Συμβασιλεύουσα (Simvasilévousa) or “co-reigning” city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinopole. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea.
The city is renowned for its festivals, events, and vibrant cultural life in general, and is considered to be Greece’s cultural capital. Events such as the Thessaloniki International Fair and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival are held annually, while the city also hosts the largest bi-annual meeting of the Greek diaspora. Thessaloniki was the 2014 European Youth Capital.
