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My country in Europe My country in Europe Hellas (Greece in Hellas (Greece in EnglishEnglish))

National emblem

Flag

Hellenic Republic

Area: 131,990 km2

Population: ~12,000,000Hellas

(Greece)

Hellas is surrounded in the north by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania, in the west by the Ionian Sea (Italy), in the south by the Mediterranean Sea (Africa) and in the east by the Aegean Sea (Turkey)

GREEK LANGUAGE IS A BRANCH OF INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES , IT APPEARED 3,500 YEARS BC. THE

LATIN ALPHABET ORIGINATES FROM IT..

The vast majority of Greeks are Orthodox Christians and belong to the autocephalous Church of

Greece

The most famous national symbol for Greek is their flag. It has five blue and four white stripes and a white cross inside a blue square on the left up corner. The nine stripes symbolize the syllables of the words "freedom or death", which in turn is the national motto of Greece. The cross symbolizes the Christian Orthodox religion which is the official religion of Greece. The colors symbolize the blue sea and white waves.

Athens, the capital of Greece

Parthenon Plaka

Greek ParliamentMonasteraki

Thessaloniki the second city of Greece

Greece has 2,000 islands. Some of them are:

Crete

RodosSamos

Zakynthos

Corfu

Mykonos

Santorini

Lefkada

Famous foodSouvlakiMousakas

Ntakos

gyros

Mediterranean diet

The Greek people excelled, from ancient years. They were philosophers

HeraclitusPythagorasSocrates

Plato Aristotelis

Physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, inventors

Hippocrates

Thales

Archimedes

Historians, Tragedians

Thoukididis Homer Herodotus

AischylosEuripides

Great ancient Commanders

Alexander the great

Pericles.

Leonidas.

Important greek Politicians after the liberation from Ottomans.

Kapodistrias

Charilaos Trikoypis

Kolokotronis Thedoros

Elefterios Venizelos

Writers, poets, Composers

Nikos KazantzakisOdysseas Elytis

Mikis Theodorakis

George SeferisManos Xatzidakis

Konstantinos Kavafis

Dionisios Solomos

Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard) Great phycisist

Dimitris Nanopoulos Famous phycisit in CERN, NASA, ESA, HARC Houston)

Georgios Papanikolaou- Pap Test

Contemporary distinguished Greek people

Greece today• A country in the middle of a political and financial crisis, BUT with solidarity and humanity

Veria, our city, a town of 65.000 inhabitants in Northern Greece

Veria the capital of the prefecture of Imathia

Region: Central Macedonia Prefecture: Imathia

In our city Veria you can see the traditional architecture

along with the modern town

The oldest school of Veria renovated and serves as the town hall

The Public Central Library of Veria• The Public Central Library of Veria is one of the most

known in Greece. It contains more than 100.000 books and 70.000 e-books, board games, CD-Roms and music CD’s. The library received the "Access to Knowledge award" by the Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates for the year 2010.

Famous Sightseeing's

The new Court

The old Court

The Archaeological Museum

The Byzantine museum

An old church , 15th century(There are 72 Byzantine churchs)

Veria is one of the places which Saint Paul visited

The town of Veria was a mosaic of cultures …

Jewish synagogue, when there was in Veria populous Jewish community (until 1943)

Medrese Mosque, a monument of the Ottoman occupation

The river Tripotamos flows through the town

Vergina, a small village near Veria, an important center of the Hellenic history. It became widely known in 1977, when the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovered a burial monument, including the tomb of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.

Inside the"Great Tumulus

The entrance to the "Great Tumulus" Museum

from the museum

Local Cuisine

beans in the oven

pies filled with cheese, leek and herbs revani

meetaballs

The region’s economy is based mainly at agriculture and at the production of fruits (mainly peach) and vegetables

The river Aliakmonas crosses the county of Imathia, and is the biggest river of Greece

• The dams that have been created are used to generate electricity

Concerts and other events on the river’s banks

The open amphitheater “Melina Mercouri”

SPORTS

The local football team Veria

The famous hanball team Philippos

Other sports activities…

Ski centers 25Km from Veria, at mountain Vermio

5th Lyceum of Veria

Our school- 5th Lyceum of Veria• 5th Lyceum is the biggest

Lyceum in Veria.• It has 370 students and 40

teachers.• There are three grades in

our school.• Students of the 3rd grade

sit for university entrance exams in May.

The corridor

Teachers’ office (main building)

Our school yard

The football ground in the yard

5th Lyceum of Veria is well equipped, with a large library

… and a lot of laboratories

One of the Laboratories

Students in the Lab

We LOVE our school!

And we are proud of itBecause……….

1. 90 % of the students succeed in the panhellenic university exams and get a place in a university faculty.

2. It runs a lot of enironmental projects to make us more sensitive to the environment protection.

3. There is a theatrical group and a music band to develop our talents

4. we have the opportunity to take part in european projects, ex- Comenius, Erasmus, etwinning, so we make friends from Europe and we learn to cooperate with each other.

5. We have participated in European youth Parliament

6. We have got four distinctions in Food4you european competition organised by Italy

7. School has been awarded three successsive years with the european etwinning prize “Maria Slodowska-Ciouri” for the etwinning projects with schools from France, Slovenia, Italy and one etwinning award on national level.

8. School sports teams are ones of the best in Imathia prefecture at handball and football.

9. There are talented students who write poems, literature, who are vey good at graphics design.

The activities of our school online

http://blogs.sch.gr/5lykvero/

http://5lyk-veroias.ima.sch.gr/

Pics from the awards

Also in our school there are held

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uwb07G3R8

Activities against racism

• Activities for refugees• common activities with the nearby Special Needs School

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