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History
Cities and towns of ancient Greece.
Prehistoric and Bronze Age civilization
Main articles: Helladic period and Mycenaean Greece
The tribes which became the Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the Middle Bronze Age (roughly 2000 BC).[1] The Proto-Greek language dates to the period just preceding these migrations, either to the late 3rd millennium BC, or to the 17th century BC at the latest. The Bronze Age civilization of the proto-Greeks is generally referred to as Helladic and preceded what is known as "ancient Greece".
The so-called Mycenaean civilization culminated in this period, which features in the famous epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. For reasons which are unknown, this culture collapsed spectacularly around 1150 BC, with cities being sacked and a massive depopulation. This Bronze Age collapse approximately coincides with the apparent arrival of the last group of proto-Greeks into Greece proper, the Dorians. The two events have traditionally been causally linked, but this is by no means certain. With the Bronze Age collapse, Greece...
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The Greek historian Herodotus mentions the city as Siris (Σίρις) in the 5th century BC. Theopompus refers to the city as Sirra (Σίρρα) and later, by the Roman historian Livy, it is mentioned as Sirae, in the plural. Since then the name of the city remains in plural and by the 5th century AD it was already in the conteporary form as Serrae (Σέρραι). It is known as Ser in both Macedonian Slavic and Serbian while in Bulgarian it is known as Syar (Сяр) or Ser (Сер), and before 1945 it was also known as Сѣръ. The Katharevousa form for the name of the city was Sérrai (Σέῤῥαι). . She was also known as Serez or Siroz in Turkish according to Ottoman archive of Turkish Prime Ministry. Present Turkish name of her is Serez and derived from "Serrae", which was Serres' former name.
Serres became the site of a major fortress built by the Byzantine Empire to guard the empire's northern frontier and the strategic Rupel Pass into Bulgaria. It was seized by the Bulgarians in the 10th century. In 1196 in the battle of Serres the Byzantines were defeated by the Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Asen I. Nine years later in 1205 the Bulgarian Emperor Kaloyan...
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Η Fnac, έχοντας πάντα ως στόχο την ανάδειξη νέων, εναλλακτικών μορφών καλλιτεχνικής έκφρασης, στηρίζει έμπρακτα την εγχώρια κινηματογραφική δημιουργία και προσφέρει στο ευρύ κοινό την νέα ματιά των Ελλήνων σκηνοθετών που ξεχώρισαν στο 31ο Φεστιβάλ Ελληνικών Ταινιών Μικρού Μήκους Δράμας.
Συγκεκριμένα, σε συνεργασία με το Φεστιβάλ Δράμας, εκδίδει σε ένα DVD όλες τις βραβευμένες ταινίες του ελληνικού διαγωνιστικού τμήματος του 2008. Εκτός από τις ταινίες το DVD περιλαμβάνει υπότιτλους στα ελληνικά και στα αγγλικά, βιογραφικά σκηνοθετών, φωτογραφίες και περιλήψεις ταινιών. Το DVD θα διατίθεται από τις αρχές Νοεμβρίου αποκλειστικά από τα καταστήματα...
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