Nikolaos "Nikos" Oikonomou is a former Greek professional basketball player, and a current professional basketball coach. During his playing career, the 2.08 m tall power forward was a four-time FIBA EuroStar selection. He was inducted into the Greek Basket League Hall of Fame in 2022. Oikonomou also runs Basket4All, a basketball camp for young children. He hails from Emmanouil Pappas, Serres.
Nikos Oikonomou, as a player of Panathinaikos.
Emmanouil Pappas (village)
Emmanouil Pappas is a village in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality of Emmanouil Pappas. It is situated in the foothills of mountain Menoikio, 17 km east of Serres, and 101 km northeast of Thessaloniki. The former name of the village was Dovista. It was renamed Emmanouil Pappas in 1927, after the hero of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia who was born there in 1773.
Airphoto of Emmanouil Pappas
The old school building
The seals of the "Progressive Fraternity Dovista" (founded in 1883) and the "Music-Gymnastics Society Virtue" (founded in 1910). The existence of the Greek flag in the second seal, despite the fact that the village was still under Ottoman rule back then, is remarkable
Bust of Emmanouel Pappas in the central square of his native village
