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Thanasis Laskaridis is also the founder of The People's Trust [43] in Greece, a charitable trust dedicated to small grants for startup companies and general charity. [9] For his donations to the Greek Navy and coast guard, Laskaridis has been awarded by the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy and the Hellenic Coast Guard.
Despite his vision of a progressive nation with modern infrastructure, Greece was a poor and backwards country in the latter part of the 19th century. Greek satirical poster of 1895 depicting Trikoupis and his main political opponent Theodoros Deligiannis. The flag reads: "down with the taxes, up with the loans!"
The Free People (Greek: Ελεύθεροι Άνθρωποι or Κίνημα Ελευθέρων Ανθρώπων, Κ.ΕΛ.ΑΝ.; KELAN) was a political party founded in February 2021 by journalist Giorgos Tragas. [4]
Almost two-thirds of the Greek people live in urban areas. Greece's largest and most influential metropolitan centres are Athens (population 3,744,059 according to 2021 census) and Thessaloniki (population 1,092,919 in 2021) that latter commonly referred to as the symprotévousa (συμπρωτεύουσα, lit. ' co-capital '). [291]
The party first contested national elections in 1989, [1] when it won a single seat in the June elections. [2] In elections in November 1989 and April 1990 the party retained its single seat.
Category: People by island in Greece. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... People from the Ionian Islands (10 C)
The Nash paper mill. Arthur Evans [4] was born in Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, the first child of John Evans [5] (1823–1908) and Harriet Ann Dickinson (born 1824), the daughter of John's employer and maternal uncle, John Dickinson (1782–1869), the inventor and founder of Messrs John Dickinson, a paper mill.
George Andreas Papandreou (Greek: Γεώργιος Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου, [2] [3] [4] pronounced [ʝeˈorʝios papanˈðreu], shortened to Giorgos (Γιώργος) to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011.