George Karagiannakis

History and geo-politics are ongoing learnings. We know that in international politics there are no permanent friends only permanent interests.

[George Karagiannakis @georgemk56]

@FreshSummerWind You fail to miss the key point: In international politics there are no permanent friends only permanent interests!

[George Karagiannakis @georgemk56]

@dublin_damo Add these Dolmadakia, a specialty of the island of Kasos next Crete, with horta!

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@dublin_damo The best coffee in Athens and rivals coffee anywhere! Cafe near Omonia Square.

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@uniquemoviemom Very poor representation of the Battle of the Bulge. They couldn’t even get the weather conditions correct! A shame they wasted some great actors on a mediocre film!

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@Phil_Shatz @ShoahUkraine When I visited the cemetery in 2018 it was in pristine condition!

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@Peter_Fitz Similar to the bayonet charge of the Māoris, Aussies and Greeks against the German mountain troops, at 42nd street on Crete, May 1941.

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@KatieMiller It is incorrect for Australia. You don’t need ID to vote. I’ve voted for 50 years and never shown an ID. Just name and address and confirm you haven’t voted previously!

[George Karagiannakis @georgemk56]

@theepicmap Greek language is not Slavic. It’s an ancient language and alphabet (the word’s from the Greek letters alpha and beta) and forms the basis of many words in the Latin and English languages. Indeed the Slavic alphabet was developed by two Greek monks, Cyril and Methodius.

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@Basileus_Phokas Quite controversial! I believe it’s better to have a minimalist restoration as being done to the Parthenon rather than a recreation of what it looked like 2500 years ago. I marvel at the architecture and construction methods in use at that time not some modern technology!

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@MrKathreptis My father and grandfather also from Kasos. One of the last authentic islands in Greece, with a proud and tragic history.

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@visualsancients Was there only last month. Beautifully restored. Unfortunately without the flowers!

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@Basileus_Phokas According to the Australian Census there are about 500,000 people in Australia who identify with Greek ancestry. Melbourne has about 200,000 not 400,000! Apart from Sydney the other capital cities Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide each having around 50,000.

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@DaemonDiomedes Was there in 2017. Sicily has some of the best preserved Ancient Greek temples but also in Southern Italy, Poseidonia. Magna Grecia was a cultural and historical inspiration!

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@Matta1927 The best preserved ancient Hellenic temples are in Sicily although we are about to see the southern Italian Hellenic civilisation and will compare.

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@ictinus_x Η Ηρωική Νήσος Κάσος

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@DaemonDiomedes The view of the Bay of St. Paul from the Acropolis of Lindos. Majestic !

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@archi_tradition I’d add the amphitheatre in Syracusa, Sicily. One of the largest in the Ancient Greek world.

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@lenaargiri Completely agree #lenaargiri but Greece hardly ever uses the leverage it can and should apply. And it’s not only its geographic position but also the large and economically important private Greek merchant shipping fleet.

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@greece_heritage A magnificent church in a picturesque setting, and what’s intriguing is the depiction of Christ with white hair!

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@ictinus_x That’s the Heroic Island of Kasos, southern most island of the Dodecanese !