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Volos
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Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330 kilometres north of Athens and 220 kilometres south of Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia regional unit, Volos is the only outlet to the sea from Thessaly, the countrys largest agricultural region. With a population of 144,449, it is an important industrial centre, Volos is the newest of the Greek port cities, with a large proportion of modern buildings erected following the catastrophic earthquakes of 1955. It includes the units of Volos, Nea Ionia and Iolkos. The economy of the city is based on manufacturing, trade, services, home to the University of Thessaly, the city also offers facilities for conferences, exhibitions and major sporting, cultural and scientific events. Volos participated in the 2004 Olympic Games, and the city has played host to other athletic events. Volos hosted the 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics from 27 July to 5 August 2013, built at the innermost point of the Pagasetic Gulf and at the foot of Mount Pilio. The city spreads in the plain on the foothills of Mount Pelion, bordering the town of Agria to the east, Volos municipality includes both towns, along with many nearby villages, including Makrinitsa and Portaria. Volos is the a major port of mainland Greece in the Aegean sea, with connection by ferry and hydrofoil to the nearby Sporades Islands. There are also connections to Limnos, Lesvos, Chios and Skyros, modern Volos is built on the area of the ancient cities of Demetrias, Pagasae and Iolcos. Demetrias was established by Demetrius Poliorcetes, King of Macedon, Iolkos, Iolcos or Iolcus, was the homeland of mythological hero Jason, who boarded the ship Argo accompanied by the Argonauts and sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece to Colchis. During the course of the 8th century, mainland Greece was subjected to numerous Bulgarian raids, at the end of the century, a large scale Bulgarian military expedition headed by the chieftain Akamir was launched from Belasica. The Bulgarians plundered Thessalia, from their encampment which was located between modern day Volos and Velestino, the Byzantines called those Bulgarians Velegizitas or Vielesti. Volos, Velestino, Zagora and many placenames in Magnesia originate from that period and are of Slavic origin. The first reference to Golos comes from a Byzantine document dated to 1333, Golos either originated from the Slavic word Golos, which means seat of administration. Or from Gol which means bald, naked, as the area has sparse vegetation, two alternative theories allude to a Greek origin through the words βολή, as fishermen threw their nets into the sea from that area, and βώλος. In the 14 century Volos came under the control of Serbia, subsequent conquest by the Republic of Venice, the city marked a Southern border of Vilayet-i Rumeli-i Şarki in the Ottoman Empire, known then as Golos. Volos is a new city, beginning its strongest growth in the mid-19th century
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National Technical University of Athens
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The National Technical University of Athens, sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools. It is named Metsovio in honor of its benefactors Nikolaos Stournaris, Eleni Tositsa, Michail Tositsas and Georgios Averoff and its traditional campus, located in the center of the city of Athens on Patision Avenue, features a suite of magnificent neo-classical buildings by architect Lysandros Kaftantzoglou. A suburban campus, the Zografou Campus, was built in the 1980s, NTUA is divided into nine academic schools, eight being for the engineering disciplines, including architecture, and one for applied sciences. Undergraduate studies have a duration of five years, admission to NTUA is highly selective and can only be accomplished through achieving exceptional grades in the annual Panhellenic Exams. It is a widely spread perception that the vast majority of each years Panhellenic Exams top students interested in the sciences, the university comprises about 700 of academic staff,140 scientific assistants and 260 administrative and technical staff. It also has about 8,500 undergraduates and about 1,500 postgraduate students, eight of the NTUAs Schools are housed at the Zografou Campus, while the School of Architecture is based at the Patision Complex. NTUA was established by decree on December 31,1836, January 21,1837. It began functioning as a vocational school to train craftsmen, builders. In 1840, due to its popularity and the changing socio-economic conditions in the new state. The courses were expanded and the institution was housed in its own building in Pireos Street, in 1843 a major restructuring was made. Three departments were created, Part-Time Vocational School Daily School A new Higher School of Fine Arts The new departments object was fine arts, the new department, which was later renamed School of Industrial and Fine Arts, rapidly evolved towards a major higher education institution. Tradition has it that referred to both technical professions and fine arts. Even today, the school maintains a school of architecture that is related to the School of Fine Arts. The name Polytechnnic came in 1862, with the introduction of new technical courses. This restructuring continued steadily until 1873, at the time, the school became overwhelmed by the plethora of students wanting to learn high technical skills, and this led to its moving to a new campus. In 1873 it moved to its new campus in Patision Street and was known as Metsovion Polytechnion after the birthplace of its benefactors who financed the construction of this campus. At the time, the campus in Patision Street was even partially incomplete and this is when the institute was recognized as a technical education facility by the state, which was a crucial step for its development, as it became accompanied to the countrys needs as it developed. In 1914, new schools were created and was officially named Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion went under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Works
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, usually referred to simply as the University of Athens, is a public university in Athens, Greece. Today it is the biggest university in Europe, with more than 104,000 registered students, the University of Athens was founded on May 3,1837 by King Otto of Greece and was named in his honour Othonian University. It was the first university in the liberated Greek state and in the area of the Southeast Europe as well. It was also the academic institution after the Ionian Academy. This fledging university consisted of four faculties, Theology, Law, Medicine, during its first year of operation, the institution was staffed by 33 professors, while courses were attended by 52 students and 75 non-matriculated auditors. It was first housed in the residence of architects Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert, on the slope of the Acropolis, in Plaka. In November 1841 the university relocated on the Central Building of the University of Athens and he followed a neoclassical approach, combining the monuments magnificence with a human scale simplicity and gave the building its H-shape. Construction began in 1839 in a location to the north of the Acropolis and its front wing, also known as the Propylaea, was completed in 1842–1843. The rest of the construction, that was supervised at first by Greek architect Lysandros Kaftantzoglou. The building is part of what is called the Athenian Neoclassical Trilogy. The Othonian University was renamed to National University in 1862, following events that forced King Otto to leave the country and it was later renamed to National and Kapodistrian University of Athens to honour Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of the independent modern Greek state. In 1919, a department of chemistry was added, and in 1922 the School of Pharmacy was renamed a Department, a further change came about when the School of Dentistry was added to the faculty of medicine. Between 1895 and 1911, an average of 1,000 new students matriculated each year and this resulted in the decision to introduce entrance examinations for all the faculties, beginning for the academic year 1927–28. Since 1954 the number of students admitted each year has been fixed by the Ministry of Education and Religion, from 1911 until 1932 the university was separated into the Kapodistrian University and the National University. In 1932, the two legal entities were merged into the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During the 1960s construction work began on the University Campus in the suburb of Ilissia, in a statement, the University Senate said that any educational, research and administrative operation of the University of Athens is objectively impossible. The emblem of the University of Athens is the pagan goddess Athena, the University of Athens is divided into schools, faculties and departments as follows. The naming is nοt consistent in English for historical reasons, but in Greek the largest divisions are generally named σχολές and are divided in τμήματα, there the faculties of Science, Theology and Philosophy are situated
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European Cultural Centre of Delphi
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The European Cultural Centre of Delphi was founded in 1977 upon the inspiration and initiative of Konstantinos Karamanlis with the view of setting up a European and intellectual centre in Delphi. In 1957, Greece filed a proposal to the Council of Europe for the Foundation of an Intellectual Centre in Delphi. The construction for the venue began in 1966. The cost was covered by funds and funds of the Council of Europe. The Secretary General of the Council of Europe and representatives from the Greek Ministries of Culture, the other members are personalities from the realms of the Letters and Arts. The board of directors and the managing Director of the ECCD are appointed by decision of the Minister of Culture, the Ministry of Culture finances the ECCDs regular budget. The Conference Centre of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi is located on the edge of the village of Delphi. Its facilities are spread in a area of 10 hectares and include a Conference Centre, a Guesthouse. The Conference Centre and the Guesthouse were built in the mid-1960s, designed by Kostas Kitsikis and Anthony Lampakis, the facilities are an elegant architectural ensemble of autonomous discrete buildings that follow the natural slope of the mountain, with large windows and patios. The Conference Center has two main and four auxiliary Conference halls, a library and secretarial facilities, the Guesthouse is a modern midsized hotel unit, with a total of 46 rooms, terraces, a bar, a restaurant, lounge and a reception. The theatres ground floor is equipped with a ground-level Multi-Purpose Conference Hall suitable for exhibitions, the Central Offices are housed in a neoclassical building of 518 sqm, in Plaka. The building dates back to the late 19th century and for decades it was the residence of a well known Athenian family and it was purchased by the European Cultural Centre of Delphi in 1983 and was restored to its original form. The annual central event of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi is usually organized during the first ten days of July and includes a scientific symposium. The general theme is decided at a special ECCD board of directors Meeting, some of them include the International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama, the International Meetings of Music and Musicology, the International Meeting Apollo, the Cultural Amphictyony etc. The fourteen International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama, from 1985 until today, the International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama are a milti-dimensional programme combining the theoretical approach to theatre with selected theater productions and theatrical education. The purpose of the Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama is the recording of different approaches and schools in ancient drama, internationally acclaimed Greek theatre director Theodoros Terzopoulos was in charge of the International Meetings of Ancient Drama in the periods 1985–1989 and 1995–2004. The Fine Arts program of the ECCD includes symposia, exhibitions, seminars and it started in 1988 with the International Meeting Fine Arts at the end of the 20th century during which symposia and paintings and sculpture exhibitions were organised. In 1994, the arts programme was redefined aiming at creating the Park of Sculpture at Delphi
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
