Visit Greece: Top Ten Places to Visit in Greece
The Top Ten Towns/Cities/Places/Islands to visit in Greece. Greek Tourism at its best. And just know you should eat all the Greek Food possible.
1. Athens
2. Nafplio
3. Mystras
4. Monemvasia
5. Olympia
6. Delphi
7. Vergina
8. Crete
9. Santorini
10. Rhodes
Filmed outside of Sparta, Greece
A walk in Vergina, Greece
I walk around the block in Vergina, Greece.
Thessalonike - Macedonian City
Thessalonike - Macedonian City (Not Solun)
Inscribed base of a statue of Thessaloniki, of the 2nd c. A.D., found in the area of the ancient Agora and part of a group of statues of the family of Alexander the Great.
Inscription:
ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΝ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΝ
Inscription reading
To Queen Thessalonike, (Daughter) of Philip.
Archaeological Museum.
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The city was founded around 315 BC
by the King Cassander of Macedon, on or near the site of the ancient town of Therma and 26 other local villages. He named it after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great and princess of Macedon as daughter of Philip II.
Under the kingdom of Macedon the city retained its own autonomy and parliament and evolved to become the most important city in Macedon.
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Robin Lane Fox
The Classical world came to Afghanistan with Alexander the Great, between 329 bc and 327, he conquered the area before moving into India, but he left behind him settlers, cities that he found it, and of course being Greeks they express their culture. The Greek legacy is so strong because the art so divine beautiful. The legacy of Greek art reach in Afghanistan by sea on every land and came up into places that Alexander formerly ruled.
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Donald Kagan - Yale university
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We know the Macedonians were fundamentally Greeks. That is to say they were Greek speakers and ethnically they were Greek.
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George Cawkwell - Oxford university
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The Macedonians were Greeks, their language was Greek.
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Historians refer to this enlarged Greek society as the Hellenistic world. At the start of his reign, the 20 year old Alexander was the crowned King of only Macedon - a crude Greek nation of north-east mainland Greece. His mother Olympias came from the ruling clan of the north-western Greek region of Epirus.
[David Sacks (1995), 'A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World',
Oxford University]
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As members of the Greek race, and speakers of the Greek language, the ancient Macedonians shared the ability to initiate ideas and create political forms.
[N G L Hammond, Professor of Greek / Fellow of the British Academy]
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The latest archaeological evidence now confirms that [ancient] Macedonia was named after a Greek speaking tribe of people called the 'Makednoi', meaning in Greek highlanders' from the Greek 'macos' meaning tall, high, or long. Their local dialect of north-western Greek was later replaced by Attic Greek.
[Roger Wilson, 'Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece']
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What language did the Macedonians speak?
The name itself is Greek in root and ethnic termination. It means 'highlander' and is comparable to Greek tribal names such as 'Orestai' and 'Oretai' meaning 'mountain-men'. A reputedly earlier variant, 'maketai' has the same root, which means 'high' is in the Greek adjective 'makednos' or the noun 'mekos'.
[N G L Hammond, 'The Macedonian State']
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Alexander was not the first Greek to recieve divine honours in his lifetime, but the precedents were very few, and of course, inevitably inexact.
('The Greeks Crucible of Civilisation', Ch. 15, p. 228)
[Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek, Cambridge University]
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He [Alexander] achieved what no other Greek leader had accomplished, in uniting all the individual city-states into one [Greek] nation.
[John Guy, 'Greek Life', p.22]
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Hesiod first mentioned 'Makedon', the eponym of the people and the country, as a son of Zeus,a grandson of Deukalion, and so a first cousin of Aeolus, Dorus, and Xuthus; in other words he considered the 'Makedones' to be an outlying branch of the Greek-speaking tribes, with a distinctive dialect of their own, 'Macedonian'.
[N.G.L.Hammond, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1996),pp.904,905]
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Ancient Macedonia was - and still is - a territory of northern Greece,
the ancient Macedonians were of Greek origin and spoke a broader rougher dialect of Greek.
[Dr. Stephen Batchelor, 'The Ancient Greeks for Dummies']
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Visit Macedonia - Kastoria County.
Visit Macedonia - Kastoria County.
The Prefecture of Kastoria is located at the west end of Western Macedonia, bordering with the prefectures of Florina, Grevena, Kozani and Ioannina, as well as with Albania, to the west.
The city of Kastoria unfolds amphitheatrically 620 metres above sea level. It is built on a peninsula that penetrates Orestiada Lake, in the shade of the impressive mass of Grammos and Vitsi Mountains. According to the last census, the population of the Prefecture is 53.483 inhabitants, 20.636 of whom live in the city.
Kastoria is connected with Athens by air, through the Aristotle International Airport at Argos Orestikon. The Prefecture is nowadays easily accessed via Egnatia Highway. Alternatively, one can always use the old national road.
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Macedonia today is a geographical region of Greece, and the largest of the Greek territory.
It constitutes most of the geographic and historical region of ancient Macedon, a Greek kingdom ruled by the Argeads whose most celebrated members were Alexander the Great and his father Philip II.
In 336 B.C., Alexander the Great became the leader of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia. By the time he died 13 years later, Alexander had built an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India. That brief but thorough empire-building campaign changed the world: It spread Greek ideas and culture from the Eastern Mediterranean to Asia. Historians call this era the Hellenistic period.
The name Macedonia was later applied to identify various administrative areas in the Roman and Byzantine Empires with widely differing borders.
Wanderlust Greece | 72 Hours in Thessaloniki
Welcome to Thessaloniki and Season 6 of Wanderlust Greece, the Digital Travel Show where guest presenters travel the length and breadth of Greece, broadcasting live on Discover Greece’s social media. #WanderlustGR | #DiscoverGreece
Step with us into a city that beats with a pulse that sets your heart racing, but where the pace slows right down when you’re there. Where locals take time to live life to the full and 72hrs just won’t seem enough. Once it was the Romans and Byzantines who thrived here, but now it’s another type of storyteller stealing the show in a city defined by an overwhelming spirit of creativity.
Řecko Sarti - ubytování pension Vergina House
Prezentace pensionu Pension Vergina House z Řeckých Sarti.
TWO DAYS IN HERAKLION, CRETE, GREECE| WHAT TO DO IN CRETE | CRETE VLOG| HERAKLION ITINERARY
We spent two days in Heraklion, Crete Greece and had an awseome time. Crete is very beautiful and Heraklion is the capital city. It is the biggest city as well which has an old world charm. We explore some beautiful beaches.
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Greece: In search of Alexander the Great
Our search for Alexander the Great takes us to northern Greece where we meet with foremost archaeologists who give insight to his life. Alexander was a Greek king of Macedon, and by the age of thirty had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. We explore the archaeological sites of Aigai (modern Vergina) the ancient first capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site; Pella where he was born and educated; and the sacred city of Dion where he assembled his armies.
Veria Archaeological Museum in Macedonia, Greece
Veria Archaeological Museum
The museum includes collections of Hellenistic and Roman sculpture (funerary reliefs, funerary and honorary altars, portraits, table supports, statues) from the city of Veroia and other sites of the district, Hellenistic pottery and figurines from the cemeteries of Veroia, Hellenistic and Roman architectural parts (columns, bases, capitals etc.) exhibited in the courtyard, inscriptions from Veroia and the adjacent areas.
The most important exhibits of the museum are:
Red-figure bell crater (Kertsch style). The front view bears a representation of the iconographic cycle of Aphrodite and Dionysos. Dated to the middle of the 4th century BC.
Bronze hydria-calpis used as a funerary urn in a cist-grave at Veroia. Dated to 370-360 BC.
Medusa head. Large head of the mythical Medusa, which was attached to the north-east gate of the fortification walls of Veroia. It was an apotropaic symbol, used to discourage and frighten the city attackers. Dated to the first half of the 2nd century BC.
Funerary stele of Paterinos. Tall, palmette relief stele depicting the dead Paterinos, son of Antigonos, standing in the middle of the panel. It is a good specimen of the local sculpture workshop, dated to the end of the 2nd century BC.
Gold jewellery from a female burial. Pair of gold earrings, a gold ring and a necklace made of gold and cornelian rings. Dated to the 2nd century BC.
Law concerning the Gymnasium. A remarkable inscription recording the rules of the Gymnasium of Veroia. The preserved text refers to the obligations of the youths practicing in the Gymnasium. Dated to the first half of the 2nd century BC.
Bust of Olganos from Kopanos, near Naoussa. Protome of the river-god Olganos, son of the mythical Veretos and brother of Mieza and Veroia. This elegant statue is dated to the second half of the 2nd century AD.
Marble table support (trapezophoron). It bears the relief representation of Zeus, transformed into an eagle, abducting Ganymedes. Dated to the 2nd century AD.