Olympiacos and AEK recorded their first wins in the new Super League season, but PAOK stumbled at home, with all three of them to be involved in European action in the new week.
Champion Olympiacos left it for the second half to score past Asteras Tripolis in Piraeus on Friday, but the emphatic 3-0 result, courtesy of Kostas Fortounis’ opener and Giorgos Masouras’ brace, will have pleased Olympiacos manager Pedro Martins ahead of the Champions League playoffs with Omonia Nicosia.
AEK also left it late, but won 2-0 at Panetolikos on Saturday, goals coming from Marko Livaja and Petros Mantalos, while AEK keeper Panagiotis Tsintotas saved a penalty.
PAOK, on the other hand, could not beat spirited Atromitos at home, conceding a 1-1 draw on Friday, three days after eliminating Benfica from the Champions League qualifiers. Andrija Zivkovic gave PAOK the lead but teammate Enea Mihaj scored an own goal to equalise for Atromitos.
Aris is the only team so far to score two wins in as many games, with a host of teams having only played one game to date.
Three days after sacking coach Michael Oenning, the Thessaloniki team won 1-0 at Volos and sits alone at the top of the table for now. Aris has agreed terms with former Lamia manager Akis Mantzios.
Lamia is actually at the foot of the table with two losses in two matches, after losing on Sunday to visiting OFI 2-1.
The Panathinaikos vs Apollon Smyrnis and PAS Giannina vs Larissa games were postponed, as promoted Apollon and PAS have asked for more time to prepare.
The 98th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe was commemorated on Sunday, September 20, in a special event hosted by St Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church in Mascot, Sydney and The Hellenic Lyceum of Sydney.
The event, titled ‘The Traumatic Consequences of the Asia Minor Catastrophe on the Modern Greek Nation,’ treated people to a keynote speech on the history of the catastrophe, as well as a number of traditional songs from Asia Minor presented by a young band.
A band played traditional songs from Asia Minor. Photo: Mark Petropoulos.
Photo: Mark Petropoulos.
Guest speaker, Vrasidas Karalis, who is a Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney, presented the main talk on the night.
People of all ages listened intently as Mr Karalis, surrounded by young children dressed in traditional Greek dancing costumes, spoke firstly about the Greek presence during the Ottoman Empire, followed by a history of the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
A special commemoration event for the 98th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe was held on Sunday at St Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church in Mascot, Sydney. Photo: Mark Petropoulos.
His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia ended the event with a small speech, where he described the life story of prominent ecclesistical figure, Saint Chrysostom, Metropolitan of Smyrna.
The event, which was also attended by Consul General of Greece in Sydney, Mr Christos Karras, ended with some light refreshments enjoyed by all.
Three people have died after a rare storm known as a “medicane” battered parts of Greece, flooding streets and homes and causing electricity outages.
The Greek islands of Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Ithaca were all badly hit by Cyclone Ianos on Friday, as winds reaching 100 kilometres per hour damaged buildings, uprooted trees, sank sailboats and left thousands along Greece’s western coast without power.
The medicane – a combination of Mediterranean and hurricane – then swept through central Greece, hitting mainly areas around the cities of Karditsa and Farsala, before it moved south to the island of Crete.
Damage from the storm in Kefalonia. Source: Twitter / @Jack_T_92 via Reuters.
The body of a man was found under the collapsed roof of his house in a village near Karditsa on Sunday, the Athens News Agency said. On Saturday, a 63-year-old man was found dead in the same area and the body of an elderly woman was found in nearby Farsala, according to fire brigade officials.
Authorities were still searching for a woman reported missing in Karditsa.
The heavy rainfall on Saturday turned Karditsa, in one of Greece’s biggest plains, into a lake. Video footage showed flooded highways, collapsed bridges and agricultural land turned into mud lakes with farmers carrying their sheep to rescue.
Roads in parts of central Greece were left swamped. Photo: Sky News.
A river flooded its banks and damaged roads and a medical centre in the town of Mouzaki.
Experts estimate that about 5,000 houses were flooded in the area of Karditsa. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is expected to visit the region in the coming days, said the government will provide economic relief to the affected areas.
By Saturday night, Ianos had reached Crete, where heavy rainfall flooded streets and shops. The fire brigade said it had received more than 2,450 calls in the affected regions for assistance to rescue.
A woman walks on a street amid belongings after a storm at Karditsa town, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. Photo: AP Photo/Vaggelis Kousioras.
Medicanes have similar features to hurricanes and typhoons. They can form over cooler waters and usually move from west to east, whereas hurricanes move from east to west.
Warmer sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea can allow the storms to take on more tropical appearances and characteristics, increasing the wind speeds and making the storms more intense.
Cyclone Ianos could end up being one of the strongest medicanes on record.
A second fire in one week broke out in the refugee camp on Samos on Sunday evening.
Two or three containers at the Samos centre were destroyed but no-one was injured, a police source said.
“There is no risk of the fire spreading,” a spokeswoman for the fire service told AFP.
Authorities believe the fires were intentionally set and police are now on the scene investigating.
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On Saturday, September 19, the National Committee of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia inaugurated the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 in Picton, New South Wales.
The program of celebrations will cover a period of about 15 months until the end of 2021. On Saturday, all events were dedicated to the emblematic figure of Andonis Manolis, who was one of the first two Greeks to adopt Australia as their homeland.
The first phase of the action began at noon with a Trisagion Service performed at the tomb of Antonis Manolis by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios. It continued at 12:30 with the unveiling by the Mayor of Wollondilly, Mr. Robert Khan, marking the street in the name of Antonis Manolis.
The service ended at the Picton War Memorial with the laying of wreaths by members of the Greek Australian community.
The second phase of the ceremony took place at a restaurant in Picton, where around 60 people, abiding by Covid restrictions, attended a meal and heard a speech by the expatriate historian Dr. Panagiotis Diamantis.
At the same time, ceremonial greetings were made, with the Minister Mr. Taylor and the Municipal Councillor of Wollondilly Mr. Michael Banasik emphasising specific incidents with which their life has been impacted by Greeks and their activity in Australia. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese recognsies that the whole event symbolised the significance of the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution for the wider Australian society.
A storm pounded parts of central Greece, creating flooding Saturday that killed two people, left 1 missing and forced emergency workers to rescue more than 600 people.
Authorities identified the two victims as an elderly woman found dead in her flooded home in the region of Thessaly and a 63-year-old shepherd swept away by rising floodwaters. They also said a woman who is missing ignored instructions by firefighters and police not to drive into an area where a bridge spans a river.
The country’s firefighting service said Saturday that it had fielded almost 2,500 calls from trapped residents in central and western Greece or about removing fallen trees that were blocking roads.
A man crosses a flooded street after a storm at Karditsa town, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Vaggelis Kousioras)
Greece’s train operator, Trainose, said service linking southern and northern Greece was suspended.
Water from a river that burst its banks damaged at least two bridges and several buildings, including the local health center in the Thessaly town of Mouzaki, which collapsed. Parts of the stricken area were without electricity.
The storm is projected to move on to the Greek islands, including Crete, shortly.
An interesting lecture on the Treaty of Lausanne will be presented online by Markos Carelos, on Thursday 24 September, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne.
The focus of this presentation is the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, viewed through the perspectives of two leading Greek contemporary critics of the treaty: Georgios Streit (1868–1948) and Emmanouel Emmanouelides (1867–1943).
It is a central contention of this presentation that the compulsory nature of the Treaty’s Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations violated what in the 21st century would be regarded as inalienable human rights. Numerous instances of large-scale, systematic violence, targeting the Ottoman Empire’s non-Muslim minorities, which surged in the decade preceding the Empire’s dissolution — displacements, massacres and genocide — were implicitly endorsed by the Treaty of Lausanne.
By conferring interational recognition of these means and the resultant ethnically based nation states, the treaty exacerbated pre-existing chasms, not only across newly defined borders but also within Greek domestic politics and society. Tragically, therefore, the Treaty of Lausanne simultaneously heightened the need for ethnic conciliation but simultaneously impeded it.
Based on new archival research, the analysis of Streit’s and Emmanouelides’ perspectives, the presentation examines the two intellectuals’ activities and views in relation to the treaty, and thus calls its immediate aftermath and lasting legacy in question.
Markos P. Carelos received his Bachelors and Masters in History from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Since 2017 he has been a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle in Australia and the University of Zurich (cotutelle de thèse). Markos’ thesis is about the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and Greek Political Thought.
Location: Zoom Webinar: https://bit.ly/2ZAqayQ
YouTube Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/user/gocmv,
They say the brightest dreams are born from your darkest moments. For Kathy Tsaples, author and owner of ‘Sweet Greek’, it was lying on a hospital bed with stage three cancer, close to facing the end of her life.
“Facing the prospect that I was going to die, I needed to be able to leave something behind,” Kathy Tsaples says to The Greek Herald.
Kathy Tsaples was born to Greek parents in the 1950’s in Melbourne. She grew up on Greek food, culture and tradition, using all three as inspiration for following her passion.
Kathy was working in the corporate world until her life was flipped completely upside down. After inspecting what she thought was a cyst, she ended up becoming diagnosed with aggressive stage three breast cancer.
“Sweet Greek has come a long way. We’re all about providing and selling authentic Greek cuisine.” Photo: gastrology
“I didn’t know what was going to happen, and here I am nearly 10 years later, nothing has happened and I’m very grateful for that,” Kathy says thankfully.
Going through chemotherapy is traumatising on the body and the mind. Because of this, Kathy needed something to keep her mind occupied while she endured treatment.
“I started writing my first cookbook in the chemotherapy chair of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,” Kathy says.
“So sitting on that chair, I needed to have a vision. Because my prognosis wasn’t a good one, they hadn’t given me long to go, I needed to be able to leave something behind for my sons.”
Two cookbooks, a Melbourne produce store, and a strong initiative to charge through life, Kathy’s story is one to be admired. Photo: gastrology
“I wrote about culture and food, what it means to be Greek, and how we live together through our food.”
After incredibly beating breast cancer, Kathy’s love for Greek culture inspired her to write, complete and publish her first cookbook.
“Since I had the opportunity to be born of migrants in the 1950’s, it was appropriate that I continued the culture down through the generations.
Yet, she didn’t stop there, leaving the corporate world and pursuing her love of cooking further. Finding a spot in the Prahan Market in Melbourne, Kathy Tsaples’ store ‘Sweet Greek’ was born.
“It was me being passionate about food and wanting to preserve our culture and cuisine and transfer it through the generations.” Photo: gastrology
“Sweet Greek was born out of a vision and a dream really by me,” Kathy says.
“It was in the first year where I did things pretty tough because it didn’t have a kitchen so I was cooking from home and transferring to the shop.
“It was me being passionate about food and wanting to preserve our culture and cuisine and transfer it through the generations.”
Selling authentic Greek cuisine, everything from Pastitsio to Koulouria, Kathy is proud of her Prahan Market store, hoping to see it grow and attract larger Greek attention.
“Sweet Greek has come a long way. We’re all about providing and selling authentic Greek cuisine.”
Five years after beating cancer, Kathy wrote her second book which celebrates the beauty of life and the opportunities it provides. Two cookbooks, a Melbourne produce store, and a strong initiative to charge through life, Kathy’s story is one to be admired.
The All Saints Grammar 2020 graduates were given a special send-off this year by the principal and His Eminence Archbishop Makarios at the All Saints Greek Orthodox Church in Belmore.
The senior students on Friday were joined by the Principal of the College, Mrs. Eleftheria Lillis, and the priests of the Parish, alongside Archbishop Makarios, who wished them good luck in the ventures outside of school.
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His Eminence encouraged students to face the new challenges in their lives and to use the values and principles taught at the College.
“I assure you that you will have my personal support, as well as that of our Archdiocese and our respected priests,” His Eminence said in a speech.
After the Doxology, awards were given out to distinguished students who achieved high results during their year 12 studies.
After the Doxology, awards were given out to distinguished students who achieved high results during their year 12 studies.
The Marathonio award was given to students who excelled in sports, Pythagoras award for students who excelled in physics and technology, and the Dionysios Solomos award for students who excelled in Language.
The award proceedings and Doxology followed the College’s farewell assembly, where, under COVID-19 restrictions, Year 12 students heard final messages of support from their parents and teachers before going off to study for their HSC examinations. All Year 12 students also received a ‘Care Pack’ by their homeroom teachers.
The sale of the iconic Hotel Grande Bretagne in Syntagma Square is reportedly in it’s final stages, being passed on to an Arabic business group in Qatar.
The luxury 5-star hotel is one of the largest and most expensive hotels in the city, holding 384 rooms, including two 550 sq. metre Royal Suites, costing up to 32,000 euros per night.
According to ogdoo.gr, the sale will include the hotel with all it’s high valued assets, including paintings and chandeliers.
Hotel Grande Bretagne. Photo: Booking.com
The Hotel Grande Bretagne is currently owned by the Hellenic Hotel Company Lampsa SA, belonging to wealthy shipowner Thanasis Laskaridis. According to the Greek news outlet, so far there have been no announced plans to accomodate the 650 employees who currently work at the hotel.
The iconic Syntagma Square hotel was closed for four months during Greece’s COVID-19 lockdown wave 1. It recently reopened in July.
“It has been a point of reference for over a century for Greek and foreigners alike,” said Tasos Homenidis, CEO at owner Lampsa SA, adding that it is ready to “receive guests with a sense of responsibility, giving them and exceptional and authentic accommodation experiences.”
The hotel was initially founded in 1866 by the Savvas Center, originally from Epirus, and was developed on the Stadiou and Karagiorgi streets in Serbia. In 1874 the hotel business was relocated to the Antonis Dimitriou mansion, built in 1842.
The hotel was almost the victim of an attack during WWII in 1944. The EAM, believing Winston Churchill resided in the hotel at the time, reportedly placed explosives on the foundations of its hotel. The operation was stopped by the intervention of a British patrol.
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