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The new Patra TV is managed and operated by Cosmos Pelop Media S.A. which was established on 1997 with the operation of the predecessor channel called Cosmos in the prefecture of Elis and legalized on March 23, 1998, under the 6564/Ε license, by the Ministry for the Press.
The city of Patras has an important history of four thousand years. Patras has been inhabited since the prehistoric age and constituted an important centre of the Mycenean era. In antiquity it was a leading member of the Achaean League. Patras reached the peak of its power in the Roman era, when an imperial colony was founded there by Augustus.
PLP was a regional television station operating since September 4, 2015 as a continuation of Cosmos Ilia broadcasting in Elis and southwestern Greece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its headquarters were in Pyrgos . It broadcast movies, music video clips and programs, including local Greek but also from the United States , Australia and the United Kingdom .
Patras was one of the first cities in which the Greek Revolution began in 1821; [8] the Ottoman garrison, confined to the citadel, held out until 1828. After the war, most of the city and its buildings were completely destroyed. Patras developed quickly into the second-largest urban centre in late-19th-century Greece. [9]
It houses collections about the history of Patras and the surrounding area from prehistory to the end of Roman times. The museum was designed by Bobotis+Bobotis Architects with an original cost of 21.5 million euros that ended up at a total of 25 million.
Stefanos Thomopoulos (Greek: Στέφανος Θωμόπουλος, 11 April 1859 – 31 July 1939) was a Greek writer and historian, who wrote especially on the history of Patras and its surrounding region. He was the son of the notary Nikolaos Thomopoulos, and was born at 74 Ermou Street in Patras. He graduated the local Gymnasium (High ...
TeleTime is a Greek local television station serving Western Greece. It includes the prefectures of Achaia, Aetolia-Acarnania, Ilia, Cephalonia, Lefkada and Zakynthos. Its headquarters are in Patras. It offers movies as well as local programs and programs from Greece, as well as children's programs and animated series from Nickelodeon.
The Metropolis of Patras (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Πατρών) is a metropolitan see of the Church of Greece in the city of Patras in Achaea, Greece. The see traces its origins to its patron saint, Saint Andrew , in the 1st century.