Seleucus I Nicator (358 or 353-281 B.C.) was a comrade-in-arms and one of the successors of Alexander the Great. He was the founder of the Seleucid Dynasty and the founder of Antioch, which his son Antiochus I turned into the capital of the Seleucid Empire. He also founded several other Greek cities.
The Seleucid Empire was a dynasty of kings of Macedonian origin that ruled from 312 to 64 B.C. a Hellenistic state expanding from the western coasts of Minor Asia to India. The capital of their kingdom was Antioch in Syria.
Joachim Sgouros was born in Chios in 1864. He was a clergy of the Orthodox Church and he studied in the Theological School of Halki. He was the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki from 1910 to his death in 1912.
The great Roman Hippodrome in Thessaloniki. Inside this Hippodrome, the emperor Theodosius the Great ordered the massacre of more than 7,000 inhabitants of Thessaloniki, when some rebels assassinated the military commander of the city. Its length was over 400 meters. The ruins of the Hippodrome are fragmentarily preserved. A small part of the west side
YMCA Square in which the historic buildings of the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) of Thessaloniki is located. YMCA was founded in 1921. Its priority is to contribute to society by cultivating athletics, culture of volunteerism amongst youth.
Plato (429 to 427-347 B.C.) was a philosopher, follower of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. He founded the homonymous Academy on Athens. He introduced the theory of forms in the philosophical way of thinking. His works, such as the Apology of Socrates, the Symposium, the Republic, Gorgias etc have a timeless and universal appeal.
Pindus is the largest mountain range in Greece and it separates the broader region of Epirus from Macedonia and Thessaly. Its highest peak is on Smolikas Mt. It includes two National Parks.
Pineios is a large river in Thessaly. It flows from the Pindus mountains through the Thessalian plain and empties into the Aegean Sea. Its total length is 216 km. In Greek mythology, Pineios was a river god, associated mainly with fertility. There is another river by the same name in the Peloponnese, which, according to
Probably, the name honours, in a symbolic way, the contribution of nature, because spring water preserves life.
Petropoulakides is the name of the historical family from Mani. Its members, such as Dimitrios Petropoulakis (1800-1870), offered important services to the Revolution of 1821 and the later national struggles for freedom during the 19th century.
