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The Greek name is usually anglicized as George. For example, the name of Georgios Kuprios is anglicized as George of Cyprus, and latinized as Georgius Cyprius; similarly George Hamartolos (d. 867), George Maniakes (d. 1043), George Palaiologos (d 1118).
The word georgos itself is ultimately a combination of two Greek words: ge (γῆ), 'earth, soil' and ergon (ἔργον), 'work'. Aelius Herodianus (fl. 2nd century AD), a Roman-era Greek grammarian and writer, determined Georgios to be a theophoric name, or a name created to honor a deity, a nod to Zeus Georgos, or "Zeus the
Giorgio is a male Italian given name derived from the Greek Georgios and sometimes a surname. It is equivalent to the English name George . Notable people with the name include:
Giorgos, Yiorgos or Yorgos (Greek: Γιώργος, romanized: Giórgos) is a common abbreviation of the given name Georgios. Notable people with the name include: Notable people with the name include:
Georgius is a masculine given name, the Latin form of the Greek name Γεώργιος Georgios; its English equivalent is George. Notable people with the name include: Georgius Choeroboscus (7th century), Greek educator; Georgius Tzul (11th century), Khazar warlord; Georgius Merula (c. 1430–1494), Italian humanist and classical scholar
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels [a] was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou's Centre Union was favoured to win.
Georgios Gemistos Plethon (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεμιστὸς Πλήθων; Latin: Georgius Gemistus Pletho c. 1355 /1360 – 1452/1454), commonly known as Gemistos Plethon, was a Greek scholar [4] and one of the most renowned philosophers of the Late Byzantine era. [5] He was a chief pioneer of the revival of Greek scholarship in ...
Georgios Tsolakoglou with Wehrmacht officers arrives at Macedonia Hall of Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, to sign the surrender (April 1941). After the fall of Greece, the puppet government of General Georgios Tsolakoglou was appointed Prime minister of the new Greek government on April 30, 1941.