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  Edessa, Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edessa is an ancient town of 25,000 inhabitants in Central Macedonia, Greece, the capital of the Pella prefecture and is also the provincial capital of the province of the same name.
Edessa is also the home of the Marketing and Administration Department of the University of Macedonia.
Edessa has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, a train station (Florina - Edessa - Veria), a sports centre, a post office, and squares (plateies) including Egon Square.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edessa,_Greece   (262 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greece
The real danger to the ideal of Greater Greece covering all the Balkans was not, is not now, the Turk, who remains always only an unpleasant incident in the history of these lands; it is the presence of other Christian races, Slavs, who dispute the Greek ideal with their languages and national feeling.
As soon as the affairs of free Greece began to be settled, one of the first acts of the national party was to throw off the jurisdiction of the Phanar.
Greece may be a long way behind France or England, in the same class of country; she is simply part of another world compared with Turkey.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06735a.htm   (10885 words)

  
 The Ellada Site - Macedonia - Edessa
Edessa was the capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia.
Edessa is served with buses from Athens (10 hours daily - tel: 01/ 512 9308) and Thesaloniki (1h 50' - tel: 031/515380).
In addition, the Tzam- of Edessa which is now a Museum and the house of Men,laou Lou, after whom are named the yearly street fairs (held at the end of May) are also well worth seeing.
www.ellada.com /maced01.html   (553 words)

  
 Edessa, Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Edessa is a small town (population 15,000) in central
It is located a few miles west of Pella, the ancient Macedonian capital.
This is the most well-known site in Edessa: The waterfalls constitute the landmark of the town.
www.cogsci.indiana.edu /farg/harry/geo/edessa.htm   (86 words)

  
 Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 01-03-22
Greece, the birthplace of democracy, was subject for centuries to foreign domination, culminating in almost four hundred years of political suppression by the Ottoman Empire.
The roots of the modern state of Greece date back to March 25, 1821, which marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman rule and led to eight years of war before victory and freedom were achieved.
On the Cyprus problem, he reiterated that Greece is opposed to the division of the island and the occupation of 38% of its territory by the Turkish armed forces.
www.hri.org /news/greek/mpab/2001/01-03-22.mpab.html   (1968 words)

  
 Croatian American Cultural Center Performing Artists
Edessa (named after a town in northern Greece) calls its style "Balkan without borders...music from an area that has been a cultural crossroads for centuries." It is the music that inspired the late David Nadel when he created Ashkenaz.
Christos was born in a tobacco-growing village in the area of northern Greece known as Macedonia.
The lyrics speak frequently of love (experienced as passion or pain, and sometimes both simultaneously!), of the mountainous and coastal landscape of Greece (emphasizing the importance of the water), and of travel, emigration and nostalgia; because many songs originated as humorous or soulful improvisations, they often mention particular places and people along the way.
www.slavonicweb.org /artists/artists.html   (9727 words)

  
 Discover Greek Macedonia
Built on the an isthmus on the shores of lovely lake Orestiada and surrounded by mountains, it is a city of old neighbourhoods, narrow lanes, stately mansions and Byzantine churches...
Kavala is one of the most attractive of Greece's large cities rising like an ampitheatre from the beautiful harbor up to a huge byzantine fortress.
Mount Olympus is Greece's highest mountain and the home to the Gods of Greek mythology.
www.magicaljourneys.com /Macedonia/macedonia-discover.html   (566 words)

  
 MINELREL-L Archive (07241998-21:47:43-24430)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The MHRMC and ARCAM call on the international community to condemn Greece's actions and to apply pressure on the Greek government to comply with all human rights conventions to which it is a signatory and allow these ethnic Macedonians to freely cross the border into Greece.
The persons with foreign passports were denied entrance in Greece mainly because of two reasons: if the place of birth in the passport is written with the Macedonian toponym, not with the Greek one, and if the person has been registered by the competent Greek services as a well-known activist of the Organization of children-refugees.
As it is generally known, Greece does not recognize at all the existence of a Macedonian national minority.
www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /minelres/archive/07241998-21:47:43-24430.html   (723 words)

  
 Guide of Macedonia: greece travel chalkidiki, thessaloniki hotels, chalkidiki guide, travel city thessaloniki, edessa ...
The weather almost never gets as hot as it does in southern Greece and Halkidiki, the region's top destination, tends to attract families and tourists who would rather not expose themselves to the intense heat and sunlight of the southern Aegean.
Halkidiki is a big, three-legged peninsula and attracts the vast majority of holidaymakers who chose northern Greece as their vacation spot.
Its towns, like Edessa and Veroia, are built along rivers whose white waters yield most of the country's catch of trout and eel.
www.zeus.gr /guide/makedonia.html   (498 words)

  
 Folklore Museum at Edessa by Greece Museums Guide - #1 Travel Guide to Greek Culture
Greece Museums Guide is an online Greek museum directory and guide for travelers to Greece.
Following an anthropological and ethnographical study carried out by Nora Skouteri, Professor of Folklore in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the museum was re-organised and opened its doors to the public again in September 1998 in a new two-storey building donated for the purpose by the Sivenas family.
(Sericulture and the silk industry were highly developed in Edessa until the 1960s.) On the first floor are local costumes, as worn by townspeople and, mainly, by rural folk from the local mountain villages.
www.greece-museums.com /museum/100   (397 words)

  
 Edessa - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
A small town in modern-day Macedonia, Greece: see Edessa, Greece
You can find it there under the keyword Edessa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edessa)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edessaandaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Edessa   (157 words)

  
 Museums of Macedonia, Greece — Ecclesiastical Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In 1996, the Diocese of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia founded an ecclesiastical museum in the centre of Edessa, on the outskirts of the traditional Varossi district and adjacent to Kokkinos Vrahos.
It occupies the second floor of a three-storey building owned by the diocese.
There are also portraits and uniforms of men who took part in the Macedonian Struggle, traditional women’s costumes, an Italian weapon that is a trophy of the Greek-Italian war of 1940, and the front page of the Makedonia newspaper describing the victories of the Greek army on the Albanian front.
www.museumsofmacedonia.gr /History_And_War/Ekklhsiastiko_Edessas.html   (123 words)

  
 Hotel,hotels,tourism,kaimaktsalan,travel,travelling,pella,edessa,edesa,macedonia,greece
It has cool climate, it is from the biggest countries in production of fruits and it is offered for excursions, sport and swimming.
The eminent waterfalls built in their foot of Vermio of capital Edessa, that assembles a lot of visitors all the seasons of time, and Edessa, are said to be one of the most beautiful regions of Macedonia.
You can visit also, the archaeological and folklore museum, with many exhibits, bas-reliefs, signs and architectural parts from the region of Edessa.
www.web-greece.gr /pella.htm   (137 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Overflow pages
Agobar) von Edessa (deshalb haben wir "in britio Edessenorum"), Essa ist die Moderne Stadt Urfa/Sanliurfa in der Türkei, in der Nähe des alten Haran.
The article brings out the correlations of these types of burials with the time of Ramses III who has been wrongly dated by conventional history and belongs in the 4th century BC.
Alalakh/Tell Atchana is located not far from Ugarit/Ras Shamra and therefore may have had some connections to the Greek Isles or Anatolian/Lydian times, a region from which Greece drew many of its mercenary soldiers who, as a working hypothesis, may have helped spread pottery styles.
www.specialtyinterests.net /eop5.html   (6097 words)

  
 akasyra - bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
At the age of fifteen a Korg workstation replaces the Yamaha keyboard and advanced music harmony and percussion lessons begin.
Meanwhile he plays in various local venues with his friends that lead to his last concert in Greece at the Edessa amphitheatre for an audience of 2500.
At eighteen, he graduates from high school and moves to London, UK to study his father's dream, Civil engineering.
www.akasyra.com /bio.html   (258 words)

  
 Open Air Water Museum at Edessa by Greece Museums Guide - #1 Travel Guide to Greek Culture
In 1991 the Municipality of Edessa decided to improve and develop the Mills area, the Kannavourgio and the “Estia#148; works, by establishing an open air, water-power museum, and creating recreation areas.
In one of the flour-mills there is an aquarium with fish from Lake Agra-Nissi in Vretta, which is the only aquarium in Greece with fresh-water fish.
On the same site there is a row of small shops, a multi-purpose hall, a recreation area and an open-air cinema.
www.greece-museums.com /museum/93   (406 words)

  
 Edessa, Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Famous for its many waterfalls and greenery, Edessa is virtually unknown to tourists, which is a blessing and a shame.
The town is one of the most beautiful in Greece full of little streams, bridges and parks.
Be sure to visit the Byzantine bridge of Kourpi.
www.greecetravel.com /macedonia/edessa.htm   (131 words)

  
 Greece ... the unknown part - photos of Greece on Worldisround
Greece - travel photos - Greece is mainly known by it's mythology, islands and the beaches...
Greece is mainly known by it's mythology, islands and the beaches...
Thanks so much, I love most any part of Greece, but these are terrific, especially!!
www.worldisround.com /articles/236762   (81 words)

  
 Philoxenia - Thessaloniki 2004: GTP Business directory
Hyatt Regency Thessaloniki cat De Luxe, THESSALONIKI, GREECE
Karditsa Prefecture Tourism & Culture Department, KARDITSA, GREECE
Kos & Nisyros Unified Tourism Conveyor, KOS, GREECE
www.gtp.gr /Philoxenia   (265 words)

  
 CUTTING MACHINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
This CUTTING MACHINE is produced by K.KOTANIDIS and SON, RIZARI, EDESSA, GREECE.
It is approved by the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE -Institution of Agriculture Machine and Constructions, TEST NU.
It is also used for the CUTTING into pieces the COTTON and CORN PLANTS, etc. that remain in field after harvest.During working, it is suspended from hydraulin system of the tractor (3 points) and takes motion from P.T.O. 4 divided knifes with double cuttings
www.alphanet.gr /mak/mak.html   (96 words)

  
 Edessa map - Detailed travel map of Edessa Greece
Edessa map - Detailed travel map of Edessa Greece
Online Edessa map showing major places in Edessa.
Detailed tourist and travel map of Edessa Greece providing regional information.
www.greece-map.net /edessa.htm   (90 words)

  
 Greece 1 boats of greece Picture - athens edessa photos
Greece 1 pictures - boats of greece picture- New travel pictures at Exploitz.com
Find out more about athens edessa stock photos
Greece 1 posted by poseidon photos modified on Sun Jan 19 2003.
www.exploitz.com /pictures/3753/index.php?pix=1   (132 words)

  
 Edessa Travel - Tips, Guides & Reviews on Travel Library
Check out our Edessa hotel reviews before your book.
Our comprehensive hotels listings feature complete direct contact information including email, web site address, telephone, address and location info.
Read travellers' stories and adventures straight from the heart of Greece and get great travel tips from those who know.
www.travel-library.com /europe/greece/edessa.html   (136 words)

  
 The Crusades - Features on thehistorychannel.co.uk
Kingdom of Heaven: The fall of Jerusalem
1147-1149: The Second Crusade was preached by St. Bernard of Clairvaux after the fall of Edessa to the Turks three years before.
It was led by Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III, whose army set out first, and by King Louis VII of France.
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/features/the_crusades-1.php   (1868 words)

  
 Winter in Greece - photos of Greece on Worldisround
Winter in Greece - photos of Greece on Worldisround
Greece - travel photos - Pictures taken in December 2005 in northern Greece (Edessa and Thessaloniki area)....
Pictures taken in December 2005 in northern Greece (Edessa and Thessaloniki area).
www.worldisround.com /articles/263534   (56 words)

  
 Hotel Aigai Edessa - Reviews & Official Contact Details
Hotel Aigai Edessa - Reviews & Official Contact Details
Home > Hotels > Greece > Edessa > Hotel Aigai
Didn't find the hotel you need, here is a list of other 4 star hotels in Edessa:
www.travel-library.com /hotels/europe/greece/edessa/hotel_aigai.html   (118 words)

  
 ALL ABOUT ME - Information About Myself - Updated Constantly With New Information - Miscellaneous   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
CANNOT WAIT TO SEE: The new KISS Movie - The chances of seeing that in Greece before the year 2000 are as close as Greeks paying for parking.
My brother once showed me a 3 hour long tape named "hooligans" which gave a hardcore insight of the risks here in Greece and the grand total of two females during the entrie match.
They tape also made me stop hassling MCP for membership.
maxpages.com /marias/Information_about_Maria - !http://www.maxpages.com/marias/Information_about_Maria   (794 words)

  
 TAS : search word
The Animated Series (to distinguish an animated cartoon from a live action show - for example, ST:TAS is Star Trek: The Animated Series)
TAS (television station), a television station in Edessa, Greece
Tribunal Arbitral du Sport, the French name for the Court of Arbitration for Sport
www.searchword.org /ta/tas.html   (309 words)

  
 EDESSA BLACK - Limestone
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www.stoneexpozone.com /p78.php3?detail=07170   (113 words)

  
 Ajvar and everything else
Mom and a big tree in Edessa, Greece.
The view from the volunteer's home in Prespa, Greece
American mom and host mom in the village.
vanessaperry.blogspot.com   (955 words)

  
 Eleni Theofylaktou
1992, 3rd end of studies' exhibition, Harbour organisation, Thessaloniki, Greece
1996, The seas crossed, Cultural Capital Organisation, Porto Carras, Chalkidiki, Greece
EURAN, European Art Networks AB with questions or comments about this web site.
www.euran.com /elenitheofylaktou.htm   (118 words)

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