Hellenic Republic
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Ναύπακτος - Naupaktos at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth - Κορινθιακός Kόλπος |
Dolphin Fresco, Minoan, Knossos, Neopalatian Period 1600 - 1450 BC - Μινωικός πολιτισμός |
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Heraklion - Ηράκλειο |
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Η τοιχογραφία των ταυροκαθαψίων - Bull-Leaping Fresco, Minoan Palace at Knossos, Crete, 1600 - 1450 BC |
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... a part of Biblical Phoenix - Φοίνιξ , now called Loutro - Λουτρό |
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Rethymno - Ρέθυμνο
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Relics of Saint Titus in Church of Saint Titus in Heraklion, Crete, Greece - Άγιος Τίτος, Ηράκλειο |
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Άγιο Όρος Άθως - Athos, the Holy Mountain |
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Κουλές - Venetian-era fortress Rocca al Mare in old port of Heraklion
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Μοναστήρι Αγίου Πνεύματος στο Σπήλι Ρεθύμνου - Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Spili |
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| Βουλή των Ελλήνων - Hellenic Parliament |
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Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysius the Areopagite, Athens -
Καθολικός Καθεδρικός Ναός του Αγίου Διονυσίου του Αρεοπαγίτη, Αθήνα
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Άγιος Ανδρέας - Saint Andrew's Greek Orthodox Basilica in Patras, Greece, within 20 kilometers of the site of the Battle of Lepanto |
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| Εμμανουήλ Παππάς – Emmanouel Pappas (1773 – 1821), hero and leader of the Greek War of Independence from the yoke of the Muslim Ottoman Turks, monument in Θεσσαλονίκη – Thessaloniki. |
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Built in 306 Anno Domini on the orders of the pagan tetrarch Galerius, a few years later the Rotunda was converted to a Christian Church on the orders of Emperor Constantine, the Greek Orthodox Church of Agios Georgios - Άγιος Γεώργιος. Why is the minaret still there? |
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| ... those most extraordinary brothers from Θεσσαλονίκη – Thessaloniki. |
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| In Київ – Kyiv – Kiev – Киев – Kijów – Кіеў – Kijevas, and part of the sculpture group, Памятник княгині Ользі –Monument to Princess Olga. |
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... on the shores of the Aegean, Thessaloniki, Bulgarian thanks to SS. Cyril and Methodius. |
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Αγίων Κυρίλλος και Μεθοδίος - Святых Кирилла и Мефодия
Saints Cyril and Methodius, Patron Saints of Europe, Church in Thessaloniki |
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Παρθενώνας - Parthenonas, but in Ancient Greek Παρθενών - The Parthenon, photographed here from the southeast corner on 9 January 2013.
Constructed and decorated from 447 to 432 Before Christ, and dedicated to Athena - Ἀθηνᾶ - Ἀθηναία - Ἀθηναίη - Ἀθάνα , the patron of Athens,
the proportions, the form and overall style and some details still exist. Still, if a personal opinion is permissible here, I would rather
see the most glorious Parthenon completely rebuilt on the existing structure, including with the "Elgin Marbles," which the British in the
person of Thomas Bruce swiped in the early Nineteenth Century and which are now in the British Museum. (Bruce did this with Muslim Ottoman Turk
permission of course, as the British and other purported European Christians have so often been wont to side with Muslims against Orthodox Christians!)
The Parthenon then, if not sooner, should be re-consecrated as the Orthodox-Catholic Church it was from the Fifth Century through the Fifteenth,
when the Muslims turned it, as they had Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, into a Mosque, though centuries later the Muslims used this most glorious
former Church as an ammunition and gunpowder warehouse, the explosion of which on 26 September 1687 is why we now see piles of rubble on the
Athenian Acropolis - Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, where once stood the crown jewels of the architecture of classical antiquity. |
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Δωρικός Ρυθμός - the Doric Order from the Greek Archaic Period - Αρχαϊκή εποχή,
c. 750 BC until the invasion of Xerxes I - Ξέρξης of Persia (Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther) in 480 BC,
these from the Athenian Acropolis - Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, in Ancient Greek, Ἀκρόπολις |
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This Athenian doggie is obviously a serious thinker. |
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... just European Christendom, here in Patras, Greece |
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Ελλάδα - Ενωμένη Ευρωπαϊκή Χριστιανοσύνη |
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Greece - United European Christendom |
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