• Events in the year 1979 in Greece. President – Konstantinos Tsatsos Prime Minister – Konstantinos Karamanlis 20 April – Maria Pangalou, rhythmic gymnast...
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    Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders...
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    1979 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1979. 1979 (MCMLXXIX)...
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  • Greece was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 with the song "Socrates", composed by Doros Georgiadis, with lyrics by Sotia Tsotou, and performed...
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    Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages...
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  • The 1979–80 Alpha Ethniki was the 44th season of the highest football league of Greece. From that season Alpha Ethniki became the professional league....
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    December 1979. There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary...
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  • Panachaiki F.C. (category Football clubs in Western Greece)
    second tier of Greek football. Founded in 1891, they have reached the Greek Cup semi-finals twice (1979, 1997). They were the first Greek club outside both...
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    Jews in Greece can be traced back to at least the fourth century BCE. The oldest and the most characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are...
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  • association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The...
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  • The 1979–80 Greek Football Cup was the 38th edition of the Greek Football Cup. Totally 58 teams participated, 18 from Alpha Ethniki and 40 from Beta Ethniki...
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    The Greek government-in-exile was formed in 1941, in the aftermath of the Battle of Greece and the subsequent occupation of Greece by Nazi Germany and...
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    German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita (German: Unternehmen Marita), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany...
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    Greece has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 44 times since its debut in 1974, missing six contests in that time (1975, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1999...
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    Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Ανδρέας; romanized: Andréas; 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1882 – 3 December 1944) was the seventh child and...
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    culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, beginning in Minoan and later in Mycenaean Greece, continuing most notably into Classical Greece, while...
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    Church in Greece is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Indigenous Roman Catholic Greeks numbered...
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    George II (Greek: Γεώργιος Β', romanized: Geórgios II; 19 July [Old Style: 7 July] 1890 – 1 April 1947) was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until...
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    Germany) 19 September 1979 Stadiumi Kombëtar Qemal Stafa, Tirana Attendance: 27,500 Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece) 19 September 1979 Oriel Park, Dundalk...
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    held in Greece for the first time on 18 October 1981. The rest of the European Community voted in 1979 before Greece became a member state. Greece was...
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    in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged romantic relationship between an older male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his...
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    Swissair Flight 316 (category 1979 in Greece)
    On 7 October 1979, a Swissair DC-8 crashed while attempting to land at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. Of the 154 passengers...
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    South Aegean on the islands of Thira (Santorini) and Therasia, in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the...
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    Pavlos Fyssas (category People murdered in Greece)
    Fyssas (Greek: Παύλος Φύσσας; 10 April 1979 – 18 September 2013), also known by his stage name Killah P (meaning "Killer of the Past"), was a Greek rapper...
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    the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862. The second son of King...
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    Crete (redirect from Crete (Greece))
    KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti [ˈkriti], Ancient: Krḗtē [krɛ̌ːtεː]) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the...
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    also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of...
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    recognised by Greece as one of its national symbols and has 5 equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue canton in the upper...
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    The Demographics of Greece refer to the demography of the population that inhabits the Greek peninsula. The population of Greece was estimated by the United...
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    Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece, marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions...
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