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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
ERASMUS+ KA2 projectNorway, Belgium, Germany, Greece
My country in Europe My country in Europe Hellas (Greece in Hellas (Greece in EnglishEnglish))
National emblem
Flag
Hellenic Republic
Area: 131,990 km2
Population: ~12,000,000Hellas
(Greece)
Hellas is surrounded in the north by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania, in the west by the Ionian Sea (Italy), in the south by the Mediterranean Sea (Africa) and in the east by the Aegean Sea (Turkey)
GREEK LANGUAGE IS A BRANCH OF INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES , IT APPEARED 3,500 YEARS BC. THE
LATIN ALPHABET ORIGINATES FROM IT..
The vast majority of Greeks are Orthodox Christians and belong to the autocephalous Church of
Greece
The most famous national symbol for Greek is their flag. It has five blue and four white stripes and a white cross inside a blue square on the left up corner. The nine stripes symbolize the syllables of the words "freedom or death", which in turn is the national motto of Greece. The cross symbolizes the Christian Orthodox religion which is the official religion of Greece. The colors symbolize the blue sea and white waves.
Athens, the capital of Greece
Parthenon Plaka
Greek ParliamentMonasteraki
Thessaloniki the second city of Greece
Greece has 2,000 islands. Some of them are:
Crete
RodosSamos
Zakynthos
Corfu
Mykonos
Santorini
Lefkada
Famous foodSouvlakiMousakas
Ntakos
gyros
Mediterranean diet
The Greek people excelled, from ancient years. They were philosophers
HeraclitusPythagorasSocrates
Plato Aristotelis
Physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, inventors
Hippocrates
Thales
Archimedes
Historians, Tragedians
Thoukididis Homer Herodotus
AischylosEuripides
Great ancient Commanders
Alexander the great
Pericles.
Leonidas.
Important greek Politicians after the liberation from Ottomans.
Kapodistrias
Charilaos Trikoypis
Kolokotronis Thedoros
Elefterios Venizelos
Writers, poets, Composers
Nikos KazantzakisOdysseas Elytis
Mikis Theodorakis
George SeferisManos Xatzidakis
Konstantinos Kavafis
Dionisios Solomos
Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard) Great phycisist
Dimitris Nanopoulos Famous phycisit in CERN, NASA, ESA, HARC Houston)
Georgios Papanikolaou- Pap Test
Contemporary distinguished Greek people
Greece today• A country in the middle of a political and financial crisis, BUT with solidarity and humanity
Veria, our city, a town of 65.000 inhabitants in Northern Greece
Veria the capital of the prefecture of Imathia
Region: Central Macedonia Prefecture: Imathia
In our city Veria you can see the traditional architecture
along with the modern town
The oldest school of Veria renovated and serves as the town hall
The Public Central Library of Veria• The Public Central Library of Veria is one of the most
known in Greece. It contains more than 100.000 books and 70.000 e-books, board games, CD-Roms and music CD’s. The library received the "Access to Knowledge award" by the Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates for the year 2010.
Famous Sightseeing's
The new Court
The old Court
The Archaeological Museum
The Byzantine museum
An old church , 15th century(There are 72 Byzantine churchs)
Veria is one of the places which Saint Paul visited
The town of Veria was a mosaic of cultures …
Jewish synagogue, when there was in Veria populous Jewish community (until 1943)
Medrese Mosque, a monument of the Ottoman occupation
The river Tripotamos flows through the town
Vergina, a small village near Veria, an important center of the Hellenic history. It became widely known in 1977, when the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovered a burial monument, including the tomb of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
Inside the"Great Tumulus
The entrance to the "Great Tumulus" Museum
from the museum
Local Cuisine
beans in the oven
pies filled with cheese, leek and herbs revani
meetaballs
The region’s economy is based mainly at agriculture and at the production of fruits (mainly peach) and vegetables
The river Aliakmonas crosses the county of Imathia, and is the biggest river of Greece
• The dams that have been created are used to generate electricity
Concerts and other events on the river’s banks
The open amphitheater “Melina Mercouri”
SPORTS
The local football team Veria
The famous hanball team Philippos
Other sports activities…
Ski centers 25Km from Veria, at mountain Vermio
5th Lyceum of Veria
Our school- 5th Lyceum of Veria• 5th Lyceum is the biggest
Lyceum in Veria.• It has 370 students and 40
teachers.• There are three grades in
our school.• Students of the 3rd grade
sit for university entrance exams in May.
The corridor
Teachers’ office (main building)
Our school yard
The football ground in the yard
5th Lyceum of Veria is well equipped, with a large library
… and a lot of laboratories
One of the Laboratories
Students in the Lab
We LOVE our school!
And we are proud of itBecause……….
1. 90 % of the students succeed in the panhellenic university exams and get a place in a university faculty.
2. It runs a lot of enironmental projects to make us more sensitive to the environment protection.
3. There is a theatrical group and a music band to develop our talents
4. we have the opportunity to take part in european projects, ex- Comenius, Erasmus, etwinning, so we make friends from Europe and we learn to cooperate with each other.
5. We have participated in European youth Parliament
6. We have got four distinctions in Food4you european competition organised by Italy
7. School has been awarded three successsive years with the european etwinning prize “Maria Slodowska-Ciouri” for the etwinning projects with schools from France, Slovenia, Italy and one etwinning award on national level.
8. School sports teams are ones of the best in Imathia prefecture at handball and football.
9. There are talented students who write poems, literature, who are vey good at graphics design.
The activities of our school online
http://blogs.sch.gr/5lykvero/
http://5lyk-veroias.ima.sch.gr/
Pics from the awards
Also in our school there are held
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uwb07G3R8
Activities against racism
• Activities for refugees• common activities with the nearby Special Needs School
Thank you for your attention!
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