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Komotini is located in Thrace, northeastern Greece, 58,5 km from Alexandroupoli. It is built in a valley and the foothills of Mount Rodopi, about 30 km from the sea, famous for special blends of Greek coffee and delicious traditional sweets. A multicultural city with Greeks and Greek Minorities, mostly Muslims. There are many remarkable sights and monuments like the Heroon, the Byzantine Castle, museums, Ottoman monuments such as the Imaret and mosques. Also there are many hotels in the city and the surrounding area for visitors as well as many taverns, café-bars and nightclubs.
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Komotini Thrace (Greece)
Kmotini
Komotini (GR) - Makaza - Kardzhali (BG)
The road from Komotini to Kardzhali filmed on August 3rd, 2015
Music by: Safri Duo Played-A-Live (DJ Tandu Mix)
Footage shot with GoPro Hero 3
Fortress and the Byzantine Wall of Komotini
It is the largest and oldest monument of the town.
The city of Komotini was fortified by the Emperor Theodosius I (379-395 AD) because it was considered as a point of strategic importance. The Egnatia Street was passing there and due to military-economic reasons the city was fortified by a wall built with stones.
It had sixteen towers, of which twelve were rectangular and circular on the four corners. The height reached to 9.60 m. It had two main entrances to the SW and SE side, and there were two smaller ones.
Over the centuries and due to the destruction of neighboring villages, thanks to the protection it offered, it became a refuge for the people of the region.
The wall remained intact until 1363. The Turks, during the invasion, destroyed part of the castle and built with its stones of mosques.
The destructive work continued by Bulgarians, who in 1910 demolished towers and a large section of the wall which was left.
Today it remains a neglected monument, remembrance of the glorious past of the city.
Fanari Beach (Фанари Гърция) - Komotini, Greece
1/5/2015
Φωτογραφικό αφιέρωμα στην Πρέβεζα 2017
Photo tribute to Preveza Greece ©
Κάντε Εγγραφή στο κανάλι πατώντας εδω:
#Preveza #Epirus
Views of the central Square of Komotini, a northern Greek town
Video taken at 9.00am on Saturday 3 November 2012
Didymoteicho, Greece (on western banks of the Evros, Thrace)
Didymoteicho, Greece (on western banks of the Evros, Thrace)
Didymoteicho was an important Thracian and Hellenistic town. The town was sacked by the Romans in 204 BC. In the early 2nd century, the Roman emperor Trajan created a new city between the two hills surrounding the town and named it Plotinopolis after his wife Pompeia Plotina. The city would later be one of the most important town in Thrace, having her own assembly. Its remains are now known as the Kale, after the Turkish for castle. In the 1980s, a solid gold bust of Trajan was found on the site of Plotinopoulis and is now in the museum at Komotini.
In medieval times, known as Demotika, it was an important market town and one of the finest hunting places for emperors and later sultans. It was well fortified by the Byzantines and after their reconquest of Constantinople in 1261, it became the most important city in Thrace and Byzantine Macedonia. The city was besieged several times by the Second Bulgarian Empire, and during the Byzantine civil wars of the 14th century.
The Battle of Demotika, the Ottomans' first victory in Europe, was fought before the city in 1352 during yet another Byzantine civil war. In 1361, and after several years of siege, the Ottomans succeeded in conquering the city. Unlike the neighbouring Adrianople which was burnt to the ground, they kept the town intact and made it the capital of the Ottoman Empire for a short time. It was then that they build the great mosque and the baths of the town, both of which were the first of their kind in the European continent. Under Turkish rule the town was known as Dimetoka or Demotika. The Ottoman sultan Bayezid II was born there. After the Battle of Poltava, the exiled King Charles XII of Sweden lived in the town (1713--1714). During the Ottoman period, it was a major center for the Bektashi Sufi order.
In 1912 the town was briefly occupied by the Bulgarians during the First Balkan War, only to return to the Ottomans a year later. The latter offered the city to Bulgaria in 1914, as a reward for entering World War I on the side of the Central Powers. The town was withdrawn from Bulgaria under the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly.The Second World War devastated Didymoteicho.
Discover Limnos island with drone 2..Greece HD
Η Λήμνος είναι το όγδοο μεγαλύτερο νησί της Ελλάδας με έκταση 476 τετραγωνικά χιλιόμετρα και το τέταρτο σε μήκος ακτών (260 χιλιόμετρα).
Βρίσκεται στο βόρειο Αιγαίο, στο Θρακικό πέλαγος, ανάμεσα στο Άγιον Όρος, τη Σαμοθράκη, την Ίμβρο και τη Λέσβο.
Μαζί με τον Άγιο Ευστράτιο αποτελούν την επαρχία Λήμνου του νομού Λέσβου.
Πρωτεύουσα και κύριο λιμάνι της Λήμνου είναι η Μύρινα, που πήρε το όνομα της γυναίκας του πρώτου βασιλιά του νησιού, του Θόαντα.
Ως το 1955 η Μύρινα ονομαζόταν Κάστρο, ονομασία που επικράτησε κατά την ύστερη βυζαντινή περίοδο και άτυπα ακόμα έτσι αποκαλείται από τους παλιότερους Λημνιούς...
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Κατάβαση με ποδήλατο από το δάσος της Νυμφαίας Κομοτηνής
Downhill from Nymphaea's forest, Komotini, Greece.
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Avicii featuring Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up
Feeling my way through the darkness
Guided by a beating heart
I can't tell where the journey will end
But I know where it starts
They tell me I'm too young to understand
They say I'm caught up in a dream
Well life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes
Well that's fine by me
So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself
And I didn't know I was lost
I tried carrying the weight of the world
But I only have two hands
I hope I get the chance to travel the world
But I don't have any plans
I wish that I could stay forever this young
Not afraid to close my eyes
Life's a game made for everyone
And love is a prize
So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself
And I didn't know I was lost
Fanari Karditsas 25-9-2016
Fanari (Greek: Φανάρι) or Fanarion (Φανάριον) is a village in Karditsa, Greece, with a population of 433 (2011 census).[1] Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Mouzaki, whereas before that it was the seat of the municipality of Ithomi.[2]
Alexandroupoli Quick Tour by Kostas Gur - HD
Συνεχίζουμε το πανέμορφο ταξίδι μας στον μαγευτικό Έβρο, σε συνεργασία με τον βραβευμένο Εβρίτη κινηματογραφιστή, Κώστα Γουρλουμένο (Kostas Gur).
Αυτή τη φορά πετάμε πάνω από την πόλη μας, την όμορφη Αλεξανδρούπολη.
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ΟΜΝΙΛ Nightclub @ Grand Opening (06.10.2016)
OMNIA CLUB KOMOTINI 25.3.2016
OMNIA CLUB KOMOTINI 25.3.2016
Flight 10: Thessaloniki Castle and Scenery, Greece
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4-6/3/2013,Burak Hakki in Thessaloniki,Greece!!!!
by Mary Vergi.
There are scenes from Star TV news and Makedonia tv (κοριτσια για σπιτι) .I don't own anything, all the rights belong to their respective owners.
Songs:1)Thessaloniki
Lyrics :Ilias Iliopoulos,
Music: Giorgos Zampetas,
Singer:Dimitris Mitropanos
I will take my car,
a little money in my pocket to spend,
and tonight at midnight
I'll get to Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, you're the one,
there is no other in the world,
Thessaloniki my sweet dear,
where else will one find such loveliness
or your very own charms.
Thessaloniki, you witch,
you draw me like a magnet,
Thessaloniki, mother mine,
my sweet dear Thessaloniki.
Thessaloniki, you're the one,
there is no other in the world,
Thessaloniki my sweet dear,
where else will one find such loveliness
or your very own charms.
Thessaloniki, you are beautiful
in every one of your neighbourhoods,
with your sweet girls
and your old corners.
2)Beautiful Thessaloniki - Όμορφη Θεσσαλονίκη
Lyrics / Στίχοι: Vasilis Tsitsanis, Vlahos - Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης, Βλάχος
Music / Μουσική: Vasilis Tsitsanis, Vlahos - Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης, Βλάχος
Singer: Glykeria
You're the pride in my heart
Thessaloniki, you sweet beauty
Though I live in Athens the seductress
It's for you each night that I sing.
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, beautiful Thessaloniki
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, I long for your magical nights.
In your narrow streets
Sweetest moments I lived
Many serenades I made
For all those Bohemian hearts.
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, beautiful Thessaloniki
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, I long for your magical nights.
Your embrace always holds me
I always remember you with pain
If I'm away from you now
Soon I'll be near you again.
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, beautiful Thessaloniki
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, I long for your magical nights.
3)Song:I'm looking for you in Thessaloniki
Lyrics :Filippos Grapsas
Music:Marios Tokas
Singer:Dimitris Mitropanos
After/since I was conceived by an empress fate
i was born by an ancient Macedonian womb
with an empty quiver I'm fighting the winter
from the castle in the heart of Platamon
After/since I'm brought here by a Phanariot path
i'm held by an alley of Thessalonika
come one night to take the promise
before it's swept away by the Northern wind (Vardaris)
I'm looking for you
I'm looking for you in Thessaloniki at daybreak
It's your sight that's missing from the colours of dawn
I'm looking for you
I'm looking for you with a violin and a moon
the dream, you and the bow are missing
Since I'm drunk with a wine from Mount Athos
and I'm shaken with the woes of Polis (=Constantinople)
find the knife that cuts us in half
and come here at the fortress of laments
Since the Gods in Olympus have made up their minds
they gave the keys to the cold and killed themselves
the day wakes up and sleeps alone now
with a motorcycle with computers and flute
I'm looking for you....