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Roman bronze statuette representing a Germanic man with his hair in a Suebian knot.Dating to the late 1st century – early 2nd century A.D. The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
Germanos ( Greek: Γερμανός) is a Greek holding company based in Athens, Greece. The Germanos chain of stores is a multinational chain of retail electronic goods vendors. They specialize in offering electronic devices such as computers, digital cameras, mp3 players and mobile phones. They also offer fixed and mobile telephony as well as ...
Kineta is situated on the northern coast of the Saronic Gulf, south of the Geraneia mountains. The rocks of Kakia Skala lie to the east. The nearest towns are Agioi Theodoroi (8 km to the southwest) and Megara (12 km to the east). Corinth is 25 km to the west, and Athens is 45 km to the east. The old Greek National Road 8 and the new Motorway 8 ...
Agia Lavra. Coordinates: 38°0′47″N 22°4′52″E. Metropolitan Germanos of Patras blessing the flag of the Greek resistance at Agia Lavra Monastery (painting by Theodoros Vryzakis, 1865). Agia Lavra ("Holy Lavra ") is a monastery near Kalavryta, Achaea, Greece. It was built in 961 AD, on Chelmos Mountain, at an altitude of 961 meters, and ...
Painting by Theodoros Vryzakis, 1865. Germanos III of Old Patras ( Greek: Παλαιών Πατρών Γερμανός Γʹ; 1771–1826), born Georgios Kontzias (Γεώργιος Κοντζιᾶς), was an Orthodox Metropolitan of Patras. He played an important role in the Greek Revolution of 1821, having diplomatic and political activity ...
The wooden watchtower reconstructed in 2008 and based on the work of Dietwulf Baatz. The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes ( German: Obergermanisch-Raetischer Limes ), or ORL, is a 550-kilometre-long section of the former external frontier of the Roman Empire between the rivers Rhine and Danube. It runs from Rheinbrohl to Eining on the Danube.
Greek genocide; Background; Young Turk Revolution, Ottoman Greeks, Pontic Greeks, Ottoman Empire: The genocide; Labour Battalions, Death march, Massacre of Phocaea ...
The anti-Ottoman revolts of 1567-1572 were a series of conflicts between Albanian, Greek and other rebels and the Ottoman Empire during the early period 16th century. Social tensions intensified at this time by the debilitation of the Ottoman administration, the chronic economic crisis, and arbitrary conduct of the Ottoman state authorities.