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The site of Ramnus (Greek: Ῥαμνοῦς), also Ramnous or Rhamnus, was an ancient Greek city in Attica. It was situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait. Its ruins are found northwest of the modern town Agia Marina in the municipality of Marathon in the modern region Attica, Greece. (Wikipedia)
Thousands flee as fires reach Athens suburbs
(23 Aug 2009) SHOTLIST
Dionysos
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1. Wide pan right of flaming hills
2. Various of fire front
3. Various of flames burning near homes
4. Pull focus on flames
5. Various wides of fire front
Rodopolis
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6. Fire truck driving off
7. People at police road block
8. Pan from fire fighting tank to police on motorcycles
9. Fire fighter putting on gas mask
10. Various of fire fighting tank driving to fire front, followed by police officer on motorcycle
11. Tank arriving at burning building
12. Various of tank hosing down flames in building
Penteli
++NIGHT SHOTS++
13. Mid of fire fighter guiding back fire truck
14. Wide of fire fighters battling blaze in field
15. Various of flames
16. Various of fire fighters at fire front
17. Man yelling outside his home as flames approach
18. Various of fire fighters at fire front
19. Flames burning on hill
20. Mid of resident and volunteer washing his face with water before offering bottle to another man UPSOUND (Greek):
Only if one million Greeks come and help, could we manage to put the fire out
21. Wide of fire front
22. Flames burning
23. House lit up by flames in the background
STORYLINE:
A massive wildfire tore through outlying suburbs north of the Greek capital Athens early on Sunday, destroying homes and forcing thousands to flee in dramatic overnight evacuations, fire service and local officials said.
The fires near the capital raged for a third day, blackening thousands of hectares of rugged land covered by pine forest or thick bushes.
Anti-aircraft missiles at a nearby base were removed as flames approached, the army said.
A state of emergency was declared in greater Athens, in the worst destruction seen there since massive fires struck southern Greece in 2007 and killed more than 70 people.
After daybreak on Sunday, planes and helicopters resumed water drops following an eight-hour pause that allowed the wildfire to spread across parts of Mount Penteli and reach suburban homes.
Clouds of black smoke filled the capital's skyline and obscured the sun.
Authorities evacuated two large children's hospitals, camp sites and homes in villages and outlying suburban areas threatened by blazes that scattered ash on streets across the city.
Fire service officials said no casualties had been reported by early on Sunday, despite the overnight evacuations of hundreds of hillside homes on the outskirts of the city.
With planes and helicopters grounded after nightfall, fire service officials said their effort, aided by a lull in strong winds, was concentrated on protecting more than six towns where homes were under threat.
Late on Saturday evening, pictures from the residential suburb of Dionysos showed the extent of the disaster.
The blaze was also close to the suburb of Rodopolis where fire fighters used a specially converted tank to protect homes.
Video from near Mount Penteli showed the scale of the task facing fire fighters.
Residents, volunteers and army conscripts desperately tried to prevent the blaze from engulfing houses on Saturday night as they were confronted with a wall of flames.
Only if one million Greeks come and help, could we manage to put the fire out, said one man.
The fires, which started late on Friday, were reported in an area more than 25 miles (40 kilometres) wide.
Some of the threatened areas were in the vicinity of the town of Marathon, from which the modern long-distance foot race takes its name.
Municipal officials in that area said the fire was threatening the archaeological site of Rhamnus, home to two 2,500-year-old temples.
Winds of up to 50 kilometres per hour (30 miles per hour) were forecast on Sunday, while officials said the thick smoke was hampering water drops.
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DJI Phantom 2 Vision+, Rhamnous, Greece
The site of Rhamnous (also Ramnous or Rhamnus) was an ancient Greek city in Attica situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait. Its ruins are found just about an hour drive from Athens.
In the early 5th BCE, a small sanctuary was built to both the goddesses Themis and Nemesis. This may show that Themis was originally venerated here in conjunction with Nemesis: one the personification of Right Order and the other the avenger of Order's transgressors.
The cult of Nemesis at Rhamnous came to a formal end with the decree of the Byzantine emperor Arcadius in 382 CE that ordered the destruction of any surviving polytheist temples in the Greek countryside.
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Miltiades (; Greek: Μιλτιάδης; c. 550 – 489 BC), also known as Miltiades the Younger, was an Athenian citizen known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon, as well as for his downfall afterwards. He was the son of Cimon Coalemos, a renowned Olympic chariot-racer, and the father of Cimon, the noted Athenian statesman.
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00:01:24 1 Geography
00:03:46 2 History
00:03:55 2.1 Ancient history
00:07:15 2.1.1 Fortresses
00:08:05 2.1.2 Places of worship
00:09:15 2.2 Medieval period
00:11:12 2.3 Attica after 1829
00:12:10 3 Climate
00:12:39 3.1 European temperature record
00:13:11 4 See also
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Attica (Greek: Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or Attikī́; Ancient Greek: [atːikɛ̌ː] or Modern: [atiˈci]), or the Attic peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece.
It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Sea, bordering on Boeotia to the north and Megaris to the west.
The history of Attica is tightly linked with that of Athens, and specifically the Golden Age of Athens during the classical period. Ancient Attica (Athens city-state) was divided into demoi or municipalities from the reform of Cleisthenes in 508/7 BC, grouped into three zones: urban (astu) in the region of Athens main city and Piraeus (port of Athens), coastal (paralia) along the coastline and inland (mesogeia) in the interior.
The southern tip of the peninsula, known as Laurion, was an important mining region.
The modern administrative region of Attica is more extensive than the historical region and includes Megaris as part of the regional unit West Attica, and the Saronic Islands and Cythera, as well as the municipality of Troizinia on the Peloponnesian mainland, as the regional unit Islands.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Attica (Greek: Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or Attikī́; Ancient Greek: [atːikɛ̌ː] or Modern: [atiˈci]), or the Attic peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece.
It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Sea, bordering on Boeotia to the north and Megaris to the west.
The history of Attica is tightly linked with that of Athens, and specifically the Golden Age of Athens during the classical period. Ancient Attica (Athens city-state) was divided into demoi or municipalities from the reform of Cleisthenes in 508/7 BC, grouped into three zones: urban (astu) in the region of Athens main city and Piraeus (port of Athens), coastal (paralia) along the coastline and inland (mesogeia) in the interior.
The southern tip of the peninsula, known as Laurion, was an important mining region.
The modern administrative region of Attica is more extensive than the historical region and includes Megaris as part of the regional unit West Attica, and the Saronic Islands and Cythera, as well as the municipality of Troizinia on the Peloponnesian mainland, as the regional unit Islands.
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00:00:25 1 Family
00:01:39 2 Tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese
00:03:11 2.1 Persian vassal
00:04:29 3 Return to Athens
00:05:53 3.1 Battle of Marathon
00:09:04 3.2 Expedition at Paros
00:10:08 3.3 Statue
00:10:39 3.4 Stoa Poikile
00:11:02 4 See also
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Speaking Rate: 0.9577999447597204
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Miltiades (; Greek: Μιλτιάδης; c. 550 – 489 BC), also known as Miltiades the Younger, was an Athenian citizen known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon, as well as for his downfall afterwards. He was the son of Cimon Coalemos, a renowned Olympic chariot-racer, and the father of Cimon, the noted Athenian statesman.