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Lord grant me the confidence of this Romanian geography textbook

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Why would anyone want to go to Dubai instead of Bulgaria

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Thanks, now I have a new fear

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Greek feminism

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Pericles, who died in 429BC of the plague, is still being disinfected, 2500 years later. (h/t Stavros Papantoniou on FB)

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Yes I'm Greek. How did you know that?

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A Karamanli grave in Istanbul. The Karamanlides were a Turkish-speaking, Greek Orthodox population from central Anatolia. The grave is in Turkish, but written using Greek letters

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Someone made this Balkan high speed rail fantasy map and now I can't think of anything else

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New Balkan War just dropped

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Conversion of a 1970s building into a 1920s building in central Athens. Thoughts?

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One of my favourite Athens easter eggs. The pavement abruptly ends due to a rock cluster, forcing you to detour around or clamber over it. But this 'rock' is actually the Sanctuary of Pan, one of Athens' most important archaeological sites and so can't be removed!

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The four seasons of Greece

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The village of Kastraki, at the foot of the Meteora rock pillars

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Most common surname among Greek refugees arriving from Turkey in 1923

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"Greece trip for 1 TL" in Edirne

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Kavala

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Ethnic map of the Ottoman Vilayet of Edirne in 1892. My grandfather was born in Malkara/Malgara and came to Greece during the population exchange.

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Remarkable photo of the island of Aitoliko in the Klissova lagoon, Greece

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The old "Turkish Primary School of Xanthi". Back when Greece had a Turkish minority instead of a Muslim one

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This is a picture which sums up Athens for me. This Byzantine church is a listed building so they couldn't demolish it. So instead they built this massive luxury hotel right over it. A very Greek solution to a very Greek problem.

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Stereotype map of Greece. Credit u/Dmpakias

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Scene from the town of Zakopane, Poland. Due to residents staying indoors, the streets have been taken over by deer

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@HJoyceGender

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Aitoliko, Greece. One of the more unique-looking towns in Europe...

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Monemvasia, Greece

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So the Municipality of Athens created a park by...removing the grass?

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Art Nouveau Thessaloniki ❤️

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Remarkable photographs of Thessaloniki in 1917

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The village of Pramanta in the Tzoumerka mountains

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Athenian parking has reached a new level of absurdity

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In deepest Kolonaki, a pogniant remnant of the Athens that was

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The Frankish Tower on the Acropolis was built in the 13th or 14th century on the Acropolis in Athens as part of a medieval palace complex. Dismantled in 1874 as part of a misguided effort to clear the hill of post-classical buildings.

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Found the spot in Kolonaki where John Lennon and Yoko Ono took that photo

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Ah yes, Greek urban planning

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Map showing the places where Greek refugees from Turkey settled after 1923. The deeper the colour, the higher the percentage of refugees in the settlement

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It's Greek to me

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Great day for Greece's institutions

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Not a brutalism fan, but there's something about Skopje post office....

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Trieste ♥️♥️♥️

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What a marble quarry in Greece looks like

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Stunning photo of Syntagma Square circa 1926. Nostalgia is a foreign country as they say...

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Greece exhibits its own curious form of Yugonostalgia; namely the incredible reluctance to replace road signs that say "Yugoslavia"

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I've always loved this corner of central Athens, the juxtaposition of the little yellow house and modern glass building, and the way Lycabettus Hill reflects in its windows

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A beautiful 1935 apartment building in Kolonaki designed by Manolis Lazaridis, who also designed the Monument to the Unknown Soldier. Unfortunately you can no longer see this building, having been radically altered by Cocomat during its conversion into a hotel

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"A hundred years ago, he said, there were 5,000 Greeks in this neighbourhood. Now there were only seven, most of them his family."

The last of Byzantium’s Greeks cling on in Turkey

As his niece sliced salami behind a pristine display counter, Lazari Kozmaoglu dashed about in the morning sunshine, arranging mortadella slices and barking o

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View of Athens from the Acropolis, 1859

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For those who can't read Greek: Yellow = Papadopoulos Red = Ioannidis Orange = Panagiotoglou Pink= Terzoglou Purple = Kypraios Grey = Hartomantzoglou Green = Karagiannis Brown = Papazoglou Blue = Kazakis

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A stunning example of Athenian modernism, located just a few metres from the Acropolis

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@strangeharbors Let's hope this puts Sam Taylor-Johnson in directors jail once and for all

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Greek transliteration needs some serious reform

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Foreign loanwords in Modern Greek

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Diffusion of Italian surnames: Greco (Greek) vs Spagnuolo (Spanish)

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Beautiful Ioannina and its two mosques. The Fethiye Mosque (1611) and Aslan Pasha Mosque (1618), both now museums

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Is the Greek spelling really necessary???

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Thessaloniki waterfront, 1913

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Xanthi? It's a delight!

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Priests in Crete blessing the opening of a new cannabis shop is basically the most Cretan thing ever

Hopes run high for Marijuana law reform in Greece

Last week was the first time that a Greek store selling marijuana paraphernalia, CBD Oil Shop, was blessed by a Greek Orthodox priest. Archbishop Ireneos of Crete, blessed CBC Oil …

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Think this might be the most Greek photo I've ever taken

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Merry Xmas all xxx

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Stereotype map of Athens (h/t Melina Spathari)

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It's often assumed Athens architecture went classical -> neoclassical -> ugly apartment blocks. But there was a flourishing modernist movement between the wars which adorned the city with art deco and streamline moderne beauties. Here's one by Nikos Nikolaidis and Pavlos Mihaleas

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Jean-Paul Belmondo on Vasileos Konstantinou Avenue in Athens, during the shooting of The Burglars, 1971

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Wind farm on the island of Agios Georgios, Greece

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A striking photo of one of the first modernist 'polykatikies' to go up in post-war Athens. Photo from Patission street, 1957

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Prince Philip was baptised in the Greek Orthodox faith in this church on Corfu

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The house of Ioanna Stefanopoli (1875-1961) in Kolonaki. Stefanopoli was the first woman in Greece to attend university

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Thessaloniki, view from the White Tower, c.1916

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Arachova - one of the most beautiful villages in Greece

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The fascinating journey of architect Nikolaos Nikolaidis (1891-1967) in Athens, who began his career designing eclectic neoclassical buildings, deftly transitioned into Art Deco and then ended up as a fully fledged modernist. An architectural Louis Wain

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The Greek Church of Tripoli, Libya. Built by Greek Muslim pirate Ioannis Sofietis/Muhammad Saqizli in 1647 while he was serving as Pasha of Tripoli.

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Santorini, 1940 (pre-tourism)

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Corfu Town at night (photo by Eddie Kastamonitis)

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Guess the Greek island

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So Thessaloniki needed a new courthouse and decided to build this brutalist building ONTOP of the historic city walls? And then add a bunch of car parks? Am I gettng this right?

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Mikis Theodorakis and Giorgos Zambetas, Athens, 1961

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Stereotype map of Bulgaria (Credit: u/Polaroid1999)

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Cut off from the rest of the world by barriers until 1995, the Muslim villages of northern Greece are some of the most mysterious places in Europe. Last summer, I visited them for @newlinesmag

The Mysteries of Greece's Forgotten Mountain Villages

Life is complicated in Southeast Europe and the remote region of Thrace is certainly no exception

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Kavala, Greece -1910 and now

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Thessaloniki in the early 1950s. Back when buses, trams and cars all passed under the Arch of Galerius

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Mykonos, 1940

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Athens, 1971. Hard to believe that Dionysiou Areopagitou was once a busy road. Today it's one of the city's most evocative pedestrian zones, circumnavigating the Acropolis

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New obsession: boats with English names written in Greek

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The municipality wanted to blow it up with dynamite to complete the pavement, but the aracheological service managed to prevent it at the last moment

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The Aliakmonas is the longest river in Greece at 297km in length. Yet it doesn't flow through a single city, town or even village. Quite strange if you think about it.

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Nafpaktos, Greece

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Ermou Street, Athens, 1980

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Crete, 1953: Arrival of a tourist boat on the island

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Once upon a time there was a city... (Athens, 1906)

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Ever wanted to see what a typical Greek periptero looked like in the 70s?

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Two interwar beauties facing each other in Kolonaki. Would be a different city if all our apartment buildings looked like this

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Syros, 1865 and now

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Thessaloniki, 1958. Most of these buildings no longer exist

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Just when you think you've seen it all in Greece.....here's the Public Library of Farsala

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Despite Meloni's threats, Italians are still inventing nonsensical English words to replace existing Italian ones. Here, a pista ciclabile (cycle path) is now a 'bike line'