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Nikos
Crónia
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28. Oktober - OXI dagen!
28th of October - The OXI day!
Listen
to this; Hør på dette;
En
stor nasjonal helligdag
til minne om den dagen i 1940 som genaral
Metaxa, daværende statsminister, sa "OXI!" til
Mussolinis krav om at italienske tropper skulle få rett til å
spasere inn i Hellas.
I de påfølgende kamper, maltrakterte den gresk armen
italiennerne til verdens store forundring og til Hitlers store
iritasjon."
Dette har jeg kopiert og fritt oversatt fra Greek
Handbook by Tom Stone, Lycabettus Press.
En bok jeg liker og har brukt mye. Intrudusjonen lyder såher;
"En A-Z parlør om nesten alt du vil vite om Hellas (og er
ofte redd for å spørre om.)"
Tror dessverre ikke at den finnes å kjøpe lenger!
Denne dagen, og ofte dagene
før, er det parader med skolebarn over alt. På selve dagen er
det også militærparader. Mange steder er stengt, mange folk
ute for å se på, og ofte går de ut og spiser etterpå!
Og så danser ungdommen
natten bort!
Frihet eller Død!
Det greske flaggs
linjer symboliserer antall stavelser i det greske slagordet; Eleutheria
H Thanatos (Frihet eller død)
All norsk
her er min frie oversettelse av den engelske teksten som er tatt fra
Wikipedia.org
Flaggets
farver
Galano Lefki - Blått og Hvitt
- disse to farvene symboliserer det blå i
det greske havet og det hvite fra de rastløse bølgene! I følge en
mytologisk legende, Skjønnhets Gudinnen, Aphroditi steg opp fra disse
bølgene. I tillegg, reflekterer det det blå av den greske himmelen
og det hvite fra noen av de få bølgene som reiser over den. Det er også noen som fåreslår at det hvite og blå symboliserer
antrekket (vrakes) av de greske sjømennene under Frigjøringskrigen!
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"A
big national holiday
commemorating the day in 1940 when Gen. Metaxas, then
premier of Greece, said "OXI!" to Mussolini's demands
that he grant Italian troops "right of passage" into
Greece.
In the subsequent fighting, the Greek army mauled the Italians -
much to the world's surprise and Hitler's extreme
annoyance."
This is from Greek Handbook by Tom Stone, Lycabettus Press.
A book I like and use a lot
and the introduction is like this;
"An A-Z Phrasal Guide to Almost Everything You Want to know
about Greece (and are sometimes afraid to ask.)"
Unfortunately I think that it is impossible to find it for sale
anywhere!
On this day, often the
days before also, here are parades of school children. On the
28th also military parades. Many places are closed, lots of
people are out watching, and often they goes for a meal
afterwards.
And then the youth dances
the night away!
THE
DESIGN AND
PATTENS OF THE FLAG
The number of the lines is based on the number of
the syllables in the Greek phrase: Eleutheria H Thanatos
(Freedom or Death)
THE COLORS
OF
THE FLAG
Galano Lefki - Blue
and White
These two colors symbolize the blue of the Greek Sea and
the Whiteness of the restless Greeks waves and freedom!
According to the mythic legends, the Goddess of Beauty, Aphrodite
emerged from these waves. In addition, it reflects the blue of the
Greek Sky and the White of the few clouds that travel in it. There are
some who suggest that the blue and white was symbolizes the similar
color of the clothing (vrakes) of the Greek sailors during the Greek
War of Independence.
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"Wars
spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes,
the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.”
“We
(Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful,
yet simple in our tastes,
and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness”
Thucydides (Ancient Greek historians and
author, 460-404bc)
From
Wikipedia;
Greece during World
War II (1940-1944)
- Further information: Military
history of Greece during World War II, Axis
Occupation of Greece during WWII, Consequences
of German Nazism,
and Battle
of Greece
In the early hours of October
28, 1940,
Italian
dictator Mussolini
demanded that Greece surrender all its arms and allow the Axis
troops to invade the country; the administration then gave what
became known as the simple negative response of “No” (see Okhi
Day), thereby siding with the Allies.
Italian troops immediately began invading
the country from southern Albania.
However, they were checked by the significantly smaller Greek
Army, signalling the Allies' first major victory on land against
the Axis powers. A prolonged period of fierce fighting in the Pindus
mountains followed, in which Mussolini's forces were
successfully pushed back. Hitler
and his generals realized that their strategic southern flank
needed to be secured more effectively so German forces, whose
ranks included troops from Bulgaria
and Italy,
invaded.
The invasion
of Greece by Nazi Germany began on April
6, 1941
and led to the complete occupation
of the country. Greek
Resistance to the occupation was fierce, often with bitter
retaliation from the occupiers. The Greek resistance in 1940-41
however, is believed to have forced a delay in German plans to
initiate invasion
against the Soviet Union, thereby extending the campaign
into the punishing Russian winter. Meanwhile the extremely heavy
losses suffered by German paratroop forces (5000) in the Battle
of Crete foiled a planned German campaign in the Middle
East against British-held Iraq and its oil fields. Germany
retained its disastrous grip on the country until October
12, 1944
when its troops finally withdrew after the landing of Allied
Forces in Athens. The Jewish communities of Greece, especially
of Thessaloniki, suffered the heaviest toll in the Holocaust,
ca. 300,000 Greeks died of famine and the country's economy
languished.
Post-war era
(1944-1966)
- Further information: Greek
Civil War
After liberation from Nazi
Germany, Greece experienced an equally bitter civil
war, caused by differences that emerged between communist
and non-communist resistance forces. Civil war began between the
communist Democratic
Army of Greece and the elected government which had the
support of the Hellenic
Army and lasted until 1949, when communist partisans were
defeated in the Battle of Grammos-Vitsi. During the 1950s and
1960s, Greece experienced a gradual and significant economic
growth, also aided by grants and loans by the United
States through the Marshall
Plan.
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epishmh argia |
offentlig
helligdag |
public
holiday |
ta
geneJlia /
h hmera gennhshV /
h eorth twn geneJliwn |
fødselsdag |
birthday |
h
argia
h adeia
h eorth (giorth) |
uvirksomhet,
ferie
ferie, ha lov til
feiring, festdag |
idleness,
leisure, holiday
leave, holiday
holiday, festival |
| kataskhnwsh
diakopwn |
ferie
leier |
holiday
camp |
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