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Borgå Akilles Borgå Akilles, or Porvoon Akilles in Finnish, is a Finnish sports club from the city of Porvoo, named for Achilles in ancient Greek mythology.
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Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles ( , ; ] ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's "Iliad". His mother was the immortal nereid Thetis, and his father, the mortal Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons.
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Germanos Dimakos Germanos Dimakos (Greek: Γερμανός Δημάκoς , 1912–2004) was a Greek priest and prominent member of the Greek Resistance during World War II, fighting in the ranks of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS). He is best known by his sobriquet, Papa-Anypomonos (Παπα-Ανυπόμονος, "Father Impatient").
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Dimitrios Diathessopoulos Dimitrios Diathessopoulos is a Greek lawyer specializing in sports law, a politician and an important figure in the Greek Sports and International Swimming society. He is called the father of Greek water polo and he is the presently the longest serving president of an athletic federation in Europe.
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Greek Civil War The Greek Civil War (Greek: ο Eμφύλιος [Πόλεμος] "o Emfýlios [Pólemos]", "the Civil War") was fought in Greece from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army (backed by the United Kingdom and the United States), and the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE, the military branch of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), backed by Yugoslavia and Albania as well as by Bulgaria), most probably the first Proxy war of the Cold War. The fighting resulted in the defeat of the Communist insurgents by the government forces. Founded by the Communist Party of Greece and funded by Communist nations such as Yugoslavia, the Democratic Army of Greece included many personnel who had fought as partisans against German and Italian occupation forces during the Second World War of 1939–1945.
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War Cross (Greece) The War Cross (Greek: Πολεμικός Σταυρός ) is a military decoration of Greece, awarded for heroism in wartime to both Greeks and foreign allies. There have been three versions of the cross, the 1917 version covering World War I, the 1940 version covering the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, and the 1974 version covering peacekeeping missions in the subsequent years.
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Attic War In Greek mythology, the Attic War is the conflict between the Amazons and the Athenians, led by Theseus or Heracles. The Amazons fought to free Antiope or her sister Hippolyta from captivity. Per some Greek myths, Heracles abducted Hippolyta during his ninth labor and later gave her to Theseus. Per other myths, Hippolyta was killed during the ninth labor and Theseus, who had joined Hercules during his expedition, abducted Hippolyta's sister Antiope. In all the myths, the Amazons then went to war against the Athenians and were defeated.
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Actaeon Actaeon ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἀκταίων "Aktaion"), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.
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Heracles of Macedon Heracles of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς ; c. 327 – 309 BC) was a reputed illegitimate son of Alexander the Great of Macedon by Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia. Heracles was named after the Greek mythological hero of the same name, from whom the Argeads claimed descent.
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Konstantinos Versis Konstantinos Versis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βερσής , 1901–1941) was a Greek Army officer and hero of World War II.
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Leonidas Varouxis Leonidas Varouxis (Greek: Λεωνίδας Βαρουξής ) was a Greek journalist and a politician. The Varouxises was a key element inf the family Spilotopoulos from Dimitsana, and participated the Greek War of Independence of 1921.
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Gonos Giotas Georgios or Gonos Giotas (Greek: Γεώργιος "Γκόνος" Γιώτας ; Bulgarian: Гоно Йотов , Macedonian: Гоно Јотов ; "Gono Jotov"; 1880–1911) was a Slavophone Greek Macedonian fighter in the Macedonian Struggle from Giannitsa. He was active in the area of Giannitsa, beginning his action in October 1904, initially as a guide in the marshes of Lake Giannitsa. He helped return 6 villages from the Bulgarian Exarchate to the allegiance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In March 1905, he joined the first well-organized Greek military group. Next year, he cooperated with Tellos Agras, achieving great successes. From 1908, he started to act with his own military group, in the end of the same year he sheltered in Athens. He was killed in a battle with the Ottoman army at the lake of Giannitsa on 12 February 1911, after a betrayal.
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Konstantinos Metaxas Konstantinos Metaxas (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Μεταξάς , 1793–1870) was a Greek fighter of the Greek War of Independence and politician from Cephalonia.
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Vasileios Goudas Vasileios Goudas (Greek: Βασίλειος Γούδας , c. 1779 - 1845 ) was a fighter of the Greek War of Independence and an officer of the Greek Army from Epirus.
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Giorgakis Olympios Giorgakis Olympios (Greek: Γιωργάκης Ολύμπιος ; Romanian: "Iordache Olimpiotul" ; 1772–1821) was a Greek "armatolos" and military commander during the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Noted for his activities with the Filiki Eteria in the Danubian Principalities, he is considered to be a leading figure of the Greek Revolution.
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Andreas Metaxas Andreas Metaxas (Greek: Ανδρέας Μεταξάς ; 1790September 19, 1860) was a Greek politician, fighter of the Greek War of Independence and diplomat from Cephalonia. He was prime minister of Greece from September 3, 1843 to February 16, 1844. The military leaders of the revolution gave him the ironic nickname of Conte Lalas due to his injury during the battle of Lalas.
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Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium (Greek: Γήπεδο Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης ), formerly known as Asteras Tripolis Stadium, is a football stadium in Tripoli, Greece. The stadium was the home stadium of Asteras Tripoli F.C. until the construction of the New Asteras Tripolis Stadium. The stadium holds 7,616 seats. The stadium was renamed in honour of the hero of the Greek War of Independence, Theodoros Kolokotronis, on November 22, 2012.
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Nikolaos Plastiras Nikolaos Plastiras (Greek: Νικόλαος Πλαστήρας ; 4 November 1883  – 26 July 1953) was a Greek general and politician, who served thrice as Prime Minister of Greece. A distinguished soldier and known for his personal bravery, he was known as "The Black Rider" during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922. After the Greek defeat in the war, along with other Venizelist officers he staged a coup against King Constantine I of Greece and his government. The military-led government ruled until January 1924, when power was handed over to an elected National Assembly, which later declared the Second Hellenic Republic. In the interwar period, Plastiras remained a devoted Venizelist and republican. Trying to avert the rise of the royalist People's Party and the restoration of the monarchy, he led two coup attempts in 1933 and 1935, both of which failed, forcing him to exile in France.
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Nikos Beloyannis Nikos Beloyannis (Greek: Νίκος Μπελογιάννης ) (1915 - 30 March 1952) was a Greek resistance leader and leading cadre of the Greek Communist Party. He was born in Amaliada (Peloponnese, Greece) in 1915. He came from a relatively prosperous family and went on to study Law in Athens, but before being able to graduate he was arrested and jailed in the Akronauplia prison (Nauplion) by the Ioannis Metaxas regime in the 1930s and transferred to the Germans after the Axis occupation of Greece (1941). He escaped in 1943 and joined the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) in Peloponnese in the side of Aris Velouchiotis. After becoming Political Commissioner of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) during the Greek Civil War he was one of the last to leave the country (1949) after its defeat. He is reputed to have authorised the massacre at Meligala.
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Greek genocide The Greek genocide, part of which is known as the Pontic genocide, was the systematic genocide of the Christian Ottoman Greek population from its historic homeland in Anatolia during World War I and its aftermath (1914–22). It was instigated by the government of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement against the indigenous Greek population of the Empire and it included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches, summary expulsions, arbitrary execution, and the destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical, and religious monuments. According to various sources, several hundred thousand Ottoman Greeks died during this period. Most of the refugees and survivors fled to Greece (amounting to over a quarter of the prior population of Greece). Some, especially those in Eastern provinces, took refuge in the neighbouring Russian Empire.
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Aristotelis Kalentzis Aristotelis Irakleous Kalentzis (also "Aristotelis Kalentzis" or "Aristoteles Kalentzis"; Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ηρακλέους Καλέντζης ), is a Greek national socialist horseback archery instructor and author who was sentenced in 1977 to 12 years in prison for terrorist activities (causing explosions, possession of explosives). After his release from prison, he was interviewed by journalist Greek TV reportage show "Made In Greece" and openly admitted to being a national socialist. In another part of his interview, he said (in Greek) that Adolf Hitler is a ""prophet of the World"" and ""an erratic person for those who can understand the deeper side of History"". He also said that ""violence is in Nature's game. National socialists are always in Nature's game, because they are nothing but a part of Nature. Now, if violence is necessary to solve some problems, then we will not deny it""; see the "Τα MME και η κολυμπήθρα του Σιλωάμ (The Mass Media and the Pool of Siloam)" reference in the "References and external links" section of this article.
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Lazaros Kountouriotis Lazaros Kountouriotis (Greek: Λάζαρος Κουντουριώτης ; Hydra 1769 - 6 June 1852 or 12 June 1852) was a Greek Senator of the 1844 Senate and a major actor of the Greek War of Independence of 1821.