Pan Hellenic Pride

A blog for everything Greek. Zito Ellada, Zito Kypros

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Me and the bouzouki - Stelios Kazantzidis - Pios Dromos einai anixtos

My first clip of me playing the bouzouki, I rarely play the baglama any more (except when I’m playing old school rembetiko).

Here’s my first clip, apologies for the slight f*** up at the end...

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Feeling some Greek pride.... Cat Stevens Kypros

A fantastic, modern take on Greek Cypriot Folk :)

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Makes me so proud to be Greek. If we all stick together, we can rule the world :)

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Incredible! THE BEST cinematic production about Greece in 2015. Love it!

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Love it, her voice is so sexy! And they are all such cuties in this!

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So happy for the Greeks, who have voted against the scaremongering and austerity that has put more than 30% of the country's population into poverty since we joined the European Union. ZITO H ELLADA! ZITO H PATRIDA MAS. ZITO H DIMOKRATIA! Anyone else who just listened to Tzipras' speech, Greeks around the world unite and party!!!!

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Nigma haven't produced a decent song in a while! I feel like this could be it!

Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai.......

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Stelios Kazantzidis - Epsachna Adika Na Vro - Unfairly I searched to find

Έδωσα χρήμα και καρδιά και πίστεψα στον έρωτα και στην αγνή φιλία Μα ήταν όλα μια ψευτιά αχ αχ και μου ’δωσαν για αντάλλαγμα μίσος κι αχαριστία

I gave money and heart and I believed in love, and in true friendship, But everything was lies Ach Ach, And they gave me in return hatred and ingratitude.

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Stelios Kazantzidis - O Psaras - The Fisherman

Anyone who reads this blog knows how very much in love I am with Stelios. From when I discovered him as a child until now, his songs make my life that much easier. Stelios has a song for everything, O Psaras is about a poor fisherman wanting to find a woman.... but really of course it is about so much more.

Stelios is saying, don't judge me for what I look like, where I came from. or for what I am doing, inside I have a heart and soul of gold.

Κι αν ξυπόλητος γυρίζω μη με βλέπεις και γελάς τη γυναίκα που θα έχω ξέρω να την επροσέχω

And if I stroll about barefoot, Don't stare at me and laugh, For the woman I will have, I will know how to care for.

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Rereading Aesop's Fables in Greek, defo my quote of the day from the Farmer and the Stork... “If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

Aesop's Fables

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Santorini, Greece

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Was in love with this place this year...

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Spectacular Santorini ... Amazing stay here

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6EwO5w2DzE

Facing up to the past - Turkey

Turkey must accept their responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus and its repression of Kurds.

#forwardthinkingdemocracy? #holdturkeyresponsible

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Turkey told to pay Cyprus damages

Turkey must pay 90m euros (£73m; $123m) in damages over its 1974 invasion of Cyprus, according to a decision by the European Court of Human Rights.

The judgement is one of the largest ever ordered by the court.

It said the damages were compensation for losses endured during the invasion and in the subsequent partition.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey invaded the north in response to a military coup on the island which was backed by the government of Greece.

My issues with this article:

1) The military coup was backed by Greece which was ultimately being told what to do by AMERICA

2) This was an invasion in which 40% of Greek Cypriots lost their homes and were ETHNICALLY CLEANSED

Things I'm happy with:

1) That the BBC has gone back to calling the 1974 invasion an invasion not an 'intervention'

2) That the Turks are finally getting a little justice

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Who are your favourite Greek figures of all time? Stelios necessarily features highly on my list but I want to know your views?

Ποιος ειναι ο καλυτερος/ η καλυτερη Ελληνας/ Ελληνιδα?

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Αναστενάζω βγαίνει φωτιά κλαίω ραγίζουν τα βουνά από τα βάσανα μου τα βαριά κι ο ουρανός αστράφτει και βροντά Άκου θλιμμένε ουρανέ τον αναστεναγμό μου δώσ’ μου κουράγιο στην καρδιά, αααααχ ν’ αντέξω στον καημό μου Της μοίρας μου κατάδικος τραβώ τον δρόμο μου σκυφτός Μοίρα σκληρή μη με χτυπάς απάνω στην πληγή μου άσε με λίγο να χαρώ, αααααχ στη μαύρη τη ζωή μου I moan and cry and fire spills out I am crying and the mountains crack with my heavy torment and my suffering the sky explodes with thunder and lightning Listen to me you gloomy sky listen to my groan give me the courage to my heart, aaaach to bear my grief my sadness A convict of my destiny depressed and bent I hit the road Hard fate don’t strike so hard at me don’t strike direct upon my wound let me be happy for a while, aaach in my dark and gloomy life

Stelios Kazantzidis - Αναστενάζω βγαίνει φωτιά - I moan and cry and fire spills out

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Stephen Fry on the Athenian Parthenon Marbles AMAZING