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Alexandra Mitsotaki is a Greek social entrepreneur. She is cofounder and president of the World Human Forum. In 2019 she launched the Convergences Greece Forum. She founded ActionAid Hellas [1] in 1998 and served as its chair until 2017. In this capacity, in 2014 she co-founded Greece's first microcredit institution, Action Finance Initiative ...
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece , by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [ 1 ] 2001, [ 2 ] 2011 [ 3 ] and 2021.
ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose stated primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide. [ 1 ] ActionAid is a federation of 45 country offices that works with communities, often via local partner organisations, on a range of development issues.
Since the 2015 European migrant crisis, Caritas Hellas has been heavily involved in providing humanitarian aid to people migrating to or through Greece. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Its initial response included the distribution of food, shoes, and hygiene items, while its longer-term efforts focused on providing psychosocial and translation support in the Kara ...
Patras was the first city of the modern Greek state to develop a city plan applying the orthogonal rule by Stamatis Voulgaris, a Greek engineer of the French army, in 1829. [351] Two special genres can be considered the Cycladic architecture, featuring white-coloured houses, in the Cyclades and the Epirotic architecture in the region of Epirus.
Photos show a Roman sector of the city with numerous shops and a government office. More and more of ‘lost city’ in Greece uncovered. Take a tour of the abandoned site
The large city centre (Greek: Κέντρο της Αθήνας, romanized: Kéntro tis Athínas) of the Greek capital falls directly within the Municipality of Athens (Greek: Δήμος Αθηναίων, romanized: Dímos Athinaíon), which is the largest in population size in Greece and forms the core of the Athens urban area, followed by the ...
It is the fourth largest city in Greece with a municipal population of 179,302 (2021) [3] and 211,370 in its wider metropolitan area, [5] according to the 2011 census. The greater area of Heraklion has been continuously inhabited since at least 7000 BCE, making it one of the oldest inhabited regions in Europe.