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	greekworks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The insistence of the Greek navy to proceed with the acquisition of its three Knox-class frigates cannot be held against the Greek American community, of course.
		The Greek navy’s worst decision, however, was to turn its lease agreement into clear-cut ownership (after all the shortfalls were obvious), which permitted the upgrade of the weapons, armor, and equipment suite, but also meant a long-term commitment to ships that were clearly inadequate and cost-ineffective.
		This in turn meant that the Greek navy could significantly increase its capabilities in the short term, permitting itself enough time during the next 10 years to organize a well-structured replacement program, while the emerging AAW technologies would also be mature enough and less risky to invest in.
	www.greekworks.com /content/index.php/weblog/extended/greek_arms_purchases_the_us_and_the_greek_american_community (2520 words)

	USATODAY.com - Greek navy on Olympic patrols for 'suspicious' ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Dozens of Greek Navy vessels have started patrolling the country's coastal waters as part of a two-layer security zone to protect the Olympic Games, with NATO warships due to keep watch further out to sea, a naval official said Wednesday.
		At least 35 Greek ships are monitoring the Ionian Sea along Greece's west coast, the Aegean Sea and areas off the coasts of Crete and the resort Cyclades islands.
		About 70 vessels have been inspected by Greek forces in recent weeks, but there have been no indications of cargo or personnel considered as possible threats to the Aug. 13 to 29 Games, the source said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-07-28-olympic-naval-patrol_x.htm (446 words)

	Ethics of Greek Culture to 500 BC by Sanderson Beck
		According to Greek epics and legends, the wealthy city Thebes was cursed and devastated by a struggle for power between the two sons of Oedipus.
		Greek swords were improved to cut as well as thrust; spears and shields were made smaller in the 13th century BC, while the Hittite and Egytpian empires were contending for power in Syria.
		During his rule the Greek colony of Naucratis was established in Egypt, and he named his son after the Egyptian Saite kings; but Psammetichus was killed about 581 BC after ruling only three years.
	www.san.beck.org /EC18-Greekto500.html (18206 words)

	The Persian Wars
		Luckily for the Greeks he was distracted by a revolt in Egypt, and in the meantime the Athenians hit it rich, striking a large vein of silver.
		In 480 the Greeks attempted to stop the Persians at Thermopylae, a point north of Athens where the was in antiquity a narrow pass between the mountains and the sea.
		The Greek alliance threatened to disintegrate as those northern Greek cities which were captured by the Persians lost interest in defending their comrades to the South, and the Peloponnesian cities wished retreat to defend the Peloponnese itself.
	www.siu.edu /~dfll/classics/Johnson/GreekCiv/alia/Persian.html (3071 words)

	Greek nationalism, the "Megale Idea" and Venizelism to 1923
		Greek nationalism has the "Megale Idea," the counterpart of Serbia's "Nacertanije." Literally translated as the "great idea" or "grand idea," the Megale Idea implies the goal of reestablishing a Greek state as a homeland for all the Greeks of the Mediterranean and Balkan world.
		Although Greek guerillas gradually secured the southern half of Macedonia by defeating pro-Bulgarian units, nothing came of their victories because the 1908 Young Turk revolution restored Ottoman rule, apparently in a form that was stronger than ever.
		Greek troops landed at Smyrna (Izmir) in 1919, and the 1920 peace treaty with Turkey designated a large part of western Anatolia as an autonomous zone under Greek occupation.
	www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect14.htm (4026 words)

	Hellenic Navy - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For information naval warfare in the ancient Greek world, see the article on triremes and its related links.
		The Hellenic Navy, (Greek: Πολεμικό Ναύτικο), is the naval force of the modern nation of Greece (Hellenic Republic).
		The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of Admiral Miaoulis and Lady Bouboulina, which fought in the Greek War of Independence.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Greek_Navy (193 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Ships
		The Greek Navy was consisted of 1 old battleship (built in 1940, disarmed and turned to training duties in 1932), 1 minelayer, 10 destroyers and 6 submarines when Greece entered the war.
		The Greek Navy sank 2 Italian subs (the Uarsciek was captured by Greek and British destroyers on 15 Dec, 1942 in the Mediterranean but sank while in tow and the Neghelli) and 1 U-boat.
		Also the same destroyer is claimed from Greek sources to have sunk U-623 on 13 February 1943, in the South Atlantic, west of the African coast.
	uboat.net /allies/ships/greek.htm (325 words)

	Ancient Ships: The Ships of Antiquity - War Ships of the Greeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Greek Brireme from the period of the Trojan War 1250 BCE
		Thinking that the Greeks had given up and returned home the Trojans took what they thought was a large idol into the city as war booty.
		This earlier configuration is close to the structure of the boats used by the Greeks to defeat the Persian fleet at Salamis in 480 BCE.
	www.artsales.com /ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/10_greek_war_ships.html (738 words)

	The Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The mission of the Navy is to conduct the necessary operations and tasks in order to contribute to the deterrence of any enemy attack, to preserve and maintain the integrity of the Country, to protect our sovereign rights and our national interests and to fulfill the goals set by the national defence policy.
		The Navy exercises naval presence in the wider area of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, in the framework of NATO and the bilateral relations, by port calls and bilateral or NATO exercises, thus stressing Greece's interest in the area as well as protecting our national interests in it.
		The Navy continuing its long history and tradition is always present through the presence of its ships in the areas of national interest and maintains a high level of readiness for the execution of its tasks in war in cooperation with the other Services of the Armed Forces.
	www.hri.org /mod/fylladia/white_bibile_2k/k4_1_2_8_navy.htm (1797 words)

	The Raw Story \| Greek navy intercepts boat in Aegean with 60 illegals on board
		In the western Greek port of Igoumenitsa, two lorry drivers were arrested after coast guard officials found six illegal immigrants in the storage compartment of the lorries.
		Greek police Wednesday also found 87 illegal immigrants in a deserted warehouse in the Athens suburb of Aspropyrgos.
		Greek authorities have denied the allegations of the 31 surviving migrants that Greek Coast Guard officials intercepted their boat and arrested them, then took them back towards the Turkish coast before dumping them overboard.
	rawstory.com /news/2006/Greek_navy_intercepts_boat_in_Aegea_09272006.html (314 words)

	Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
		Themistocles wisely advised the Greeks not to try to block the Persians' return, because it would prolong the war; he urged Greeks to repair their houses and sow their land, and playing both sides, sent a secret message of this to Xerxes.
		With 13,000 Greeks and his own Persian army of 100,000 Cyrus, who proclaimed he envied the Greeks' liberty, led the troops east toward Pisidia; from there he said their objective was Syria.
		Using coordinated attacks of army and navy, heavy and light infantry along with cavalry, Dionysius demonstrated the warfare later emulated by the Macedonians; Syracuse was the first to use the catapult to enhance a siege and larger warships with four and even five banks of oars.
	www.san.beck.org /EC19-GreekWars.html (19828 words)

	Greek Spider - Your guide to Greece and Cyprus!
		The Greek soldiers confident in their new army and anxious to invade the Ottoman Empire one day behind their allies ran with jubilation across the Greek-Ottoman border at Thessaly attacking the Ottoman Turkish positions.
		Whereas the largest portion of the Greek army was liberating Macedonia a large segment was liberating Epirus from Ottoman Occupation.
		The navy managed to liberate the island of Lemnos and trapped the Turkish navy in the Dardanelles.
	www.greekspider.com /greek_historic_events/balkanwars2.htm (833 words)

	HELLENIC NAVY - HISTORY
		This is because the place and the morphology of Greek space they present singularity to a large extent and that explains the important role that played and continues to play the sea in the history of Greeks.
		The barren end and mountainous of Greek territory but also breaking into pieces in small valleys with difficulty accessing it from land but with forehead in the sea encouraged immigratory tendencies of Greeks and contributed in the appointment of Greece in international shipping centre[1].
		What the Greeks achieved at the Revolution of 1821 they achieved it because they allocated for first time in the 'Modern Years' a numerous commercial fleet, which was changed to warlike for the needs of Revolution.
	www.hellenicnavy.gr /history2_en.asp (2591 words)

	Miaoulis, Andreas. Admiral and integral part of the Greek war of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Greek national hero was born in 1769 in Negropont, Euboea, Greece and died on June 24, 1835 in Athens.
		In 1822 he was given command of the Greek naval forces and in the years to follow he fought the Turkish fleet in many engagements in and around the Aegean sea.
		Miaoulis went on to be involved in the Greek Civil war that followed the Turks being ousted from Greece, despite this before his death in 1835 Miaoulis saw freedom in his own land; a dream he spent much of his life fighting for.
	www.miaoulis.com (253 words)

	Photo Album 7 - Greek Air Force in Asia Minor Campaign
		The Greek Navy Airforce was mainly equipped with English planes, whereas the Greek Military Airforce used French planes.
		On September 1916 after the declaration of the war against the Germans and their allies, a Navy Airforce station was established on the Greek island of Limnos, at the port of Moudros, with the initiative of the famous Greek pioneer aviator Aristedes Moraitinis.
		The Navy station at Moudros was also the base of the British Royal Air Corp command, which operated under the command of Colonel Gorson of the Royal Marines.
	smyrnialbum.s5.com /photo_album_7.htm (377 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Greek Navy Investigates Attack on Norwegian Ship
		ATHENS - The Greek navy sent armed forces to investigate a suspected attack by pirates on a Norwegian cargo ship on Monday, a defense ministry source said.
		The navy sent a frigate, a helicopter and a special forces team to the site south of the Peloponnese peninsula, the source said.
		The incident in Greek territorial waters was south of the town of Pilos, the source said.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-5-2/28376.html (96 words)

	Ancient Greek Battles Of Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, and Salamis
		The only one to defect to the Greeks is Antidorus of Lemnos, Ionia, whom the Athenians rewarded for his desertion by the present of a piece of land in Salamis.
		The idea is to keep the greek ships from sailing to the Hellespont and destroying the bridges there, also to keep his idea of flight from his men, but they are not fooled.
		The navy is sent to guard the Hellespont bridges, but they have to act as the bridges themselves since a storm has destroyed the old bridges yet again.
	www.geocities.com /caesarkevin/battles/Greekbattles1.html (4712 words)

	Greek Community of Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The strengthening of the Greek Patriarchate in the Holy Land, and emigration from the mountains of Turkey in population exchanges, were contributing factors.
		That land was slated for the establishment of the Greek Colony.
		Greek dancing classes are available through the Greek Community of Jerusalem.The classes include teaching of different dances, including syrtaki, hasapiko, hasaposerviko, syrto, balo, and more.
	www.yvelia.com /greekcommunity (619 words)

	Greek Navy Ships--Lemnos (Battleship, 1914-1941)
		Sold to Greece in 1914, she was among the Greek navy ships temporarily seized by France in 1916 as part of an effort to install a favorable government in Athens.
		She is flying the Greek flag at the foremast peak and the Italian flag at the mainmast peak.
		Lemnos is flying the U.S. and Greek flags at the foremast peak and the Italian flag at the mainmast peak.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/greece/grksh-hl/lemnos.htm (419 words)

	ESPN.com - Israel part of seven-nation security task force
		There already are ties involving the Israeli navy, its Greek counterpart, the U.S. 6th Fleet and the relevant air forces.
		Private Israeli firms will also contribute to the Greek security effort, supplying patrol boats for the Greek navy, closed-circuit TV and other monitoring systems for the streets of Athens and other services.
		Greek officials said the foreign security agents will not be allowed to carry firearms.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1826858&type=story (283 words)

	Balkanalysis.com » 10/01/2006: Greek Navy Opts for Strategic Speed and Flexibility with New Fast Strike Armed ...
		For Greek defense planners, this type of ship is considered to be the front-line defense in case of war with Turkey, especially in the southeastern area of the Dodecannesian islands.
		Just last week, the Greek Navy intercepted another boat containing 60 illegals, mostly Middle Easterners, as it passed westward through the Aegean.
		Even in the absence of war, constant vigilance is required because of the frequency and audacity of the trafficking operations.
	www.balkanalysis.com /security-intelligence-briefs/10012006-greek-navy-opts-for-strategic-speed-and-flexibility-with-new-fast-strike-armed-boats (491 words)

	Hellenic Navy
		In 1989 it was decided to perform a major upgrade to these vital units of our navy, and they now have the most advanced electronics in their class, as well as the ability to use anti-ship missiles while submerged.
		The Project 1232.2 Zubr (or Pomornik class) hovercraft were acquired by the Hellenic navy to facilitate the rapid deployment on troops and equipment throughout the Aegean.
		The Allouette III is the smallest helicopter in the fleet, and is used to train the Hellenic Navy's new helicopter pilots.
	www.hellas.org /military/navy (1066 words)

	Ship of the line G. Averof: Museum of the navy
		George Averoff had been a wealthy Greek patriot and benefactor.He had willed funds for the Greek Navy to acquire a training ship for the Greek Naval Academy.
		The battleship, with the beginning of the First Balkan War in October of 1912, was at the head of the Aegean Fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral Paylos Kontouriotis and set sail to Dardanelles.
		From Alexandria, the battleship was dispatched to Bombay to patrol the Indian Ocean.
	www.bsaverof.com /uk/history.htm (743 words)

	Greek Navy Vessels Visit Boston
		Two vessels of the Greek Navy, the H.S. AEGEAN and the H.S. PROMETHEUS, are paying an official visit to the City of Boston between July 27 and August 2, 2006.
		The visit is part of the training program of Greek Navy Cadets and the ships are anchored in Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 1 and 4 respectively, near the USS Constitution.
		On Saturday, July 29th, at 6:00 p.m., a Wreath Ceremony was held at the Korean War Monument in Charlestown to pay tribute to the men and women of the Greek and the United States Armed Forces who served side by side in defending freedom and democracy in Korea and other places in the world.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /greeknavyboston.html (237 words)

	Greek Navy ship in the Gulf foils possible terror attack
		A Greek Navy vessel taking part in the military operation ''Active Endeavour'' in the Persian Gulf successfully foiled what may have been a terrorist attack against it by a smaller vessel, a senior Japanese defense ministry official revealed on Tuesday.
		Sources at the Greek defense ministry, however, confirmed the incident but did not describe it as a terrorist attempt on the Greek vessel.
		The Greek defense ministry said the incident had involved the Greek frigate ''Adrias'', which was patrolling a region of the Arabian Sea.
	www.greekembassy.org /embassy/content/en/Article.aspx?office=1&folder=339&article=10618 (267 words)

	KYPROS-NET - OCCUPIED CYPRUS - KYRENIA
		The Greek Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael in occupied Kyrenia, from the sea.
		The Greek Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael in occupied Kyrenia, from one of Kyrenia's peaceful neighborhoods.
		The Greek Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael in occupied Kyrenia, with its distinctive Bell-tower.
	www.kypros.org /Occupied_Cyprus/kyrenia (399 words)

	USS Ankachak
		Finally, in August 1948, Ankachak was placed in service for duty in the 5th Naval District, based at Norfolk, Va. She spent the remainder of her career in the United States Navy operating in the waters of the 5th Naval District.
		On 1 July, the tug was transferred to the Greek Navy under lease arrangements.
		In December 1977, her name was struck from the Navy list; and she was sold to Greece.
	www.multied.com /Navy/Tug/Ankachak.html (202 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| Greece seeks Lebanon role
		The Greek navy is likely to play a key role in transporting equipment and soldiers, as well as taking part in other sea operations.
		Sources say that there is a possibility that Greek soldiers will also be among the ground troops that could be sent into a buffer zone between the two warring countries.
		The Greek navy has already been a major player in evacuating refugees from Beirut and now in ferrying humanitarian aid to the Lebanese capital.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100002_05/08/2006_72886 (390 words)

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