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Diamantidis (Greek language, Greek: Διαμαντίδης) is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Antonis Diamantidis (1892–1945), Greek musician * Giannis Diamantidis (born 1948), Greek politician * Dimitris Diamantidis (born 1980), Greek basketball player * Georgios Diamantidis (born 1984), Greek swimmer {{Surname, 2=Greek-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the list of languages by first written accounts, longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Diamantidis
Antonis Diamantidis (Greek: Αντώνης Διαμαντίδης), also known as Antonis Dalgas (Greek: Αντώνης Νταλγκάς) was a Greek musician. He was notable for his rebetiko songs. He was also a songwriter and best known as a singer. Life and career Diamantidis was born in 1892 in the Arnavutköy suburb of Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). He took up music from an early age, learning to play both the guitar and the oud, and by 1910 he began to work professionally as a singer. Because of the unusual and stirring "waves" in his voice, he was given the nickname Dalgas ("Νταλγκάς" which means "passion" in Greek, and "ripple" in Turkish), by which he would be known for the rest of his professional career. In 1919, he married Argyro Nikolaou in Istanbul, with whom he had one daughter, Anna. From 1920 to 1922, he and his band entertained Greek immigrants to America on the ocean liner "King Alexandros." It was during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giannis Diamantidis
Giannis Diamantidis (, born 1948) is a Greek politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and the former Minister for Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries of Greece. Life Diamantidis was born in 1948 in Nikaia, Greece. He is the son of Dimitris Diamantidis, a former Member of Parliament, and Polyxeni Leontiadou. He studied at the Department of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, he took part in the Law School protests of March 1973 against the regime. Giannis Diamantidis has been continuously elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament between 1989 (November) and 2012 for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (; , ), is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was one of the two major parties in the country, along with New Democracy, its main political r ... (PASOK) in the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitris Diamantidis
Dimitrios 'Dimitris' Diamantidis ( ; born 6 May 1980) is a retired Greek professional basketball player, who spent the last twelve seasons of his EuroLeague career with Panathinaikos BC, Panathinaikos. Widely regarded as one of the greatest European players ever to grace the game, he marked his era by being the most versatile player in the EuroLeague, serving as an inspiration to a whole generation of young European stars. Diamantidis is the only Greek player who is a member of both the EuroLeague 2000–2010 All-Decade Team and the EuroLeague Basketball 2010–20 All-Decade Team, EuroLeague 2010–2020 All-Decade Team. In 2016, Diamantidis was honored with the highest European award, being named as a EuroLeague Legend for his career accomplishments. At the age of fourteen, Diamantidis started his basketball career with the youth clubs of his hometown team, Kastoria B.C., AS Kastoria. A year later, he made his professional debut with Iraklis BC, Iraklis Thessaloniki, had daughter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
