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Irene Koumarianou
Irene Koumarianou (1931 – 25 January 2013) was a Greek actress whose career began in 1951. Biography Koumarianou was born in Galatsi, Athens. She studied at the Greek Conservatory and starred in several plays, mainly at the National Theatre, which included several ancient tragedies, mainly by Epidaurus. She co-starred, with Alice Vougiouklaki, Jenny Karezi, Rena Vlachopoulou and others, during her career. Her film credits included ''History of Life'', ''Girls on kissing'' (1965), ''Tears for Electra'' (1966), ''Too late for tears'', ''Captain jack baton'' (1968), ''The fairy and the lad'' (1969), ''The aristocrat and the Tramp'', ''I pity the stature'' (1970), ''The rascal'', ''The efoplistina'' (1971), ''Mary of Silence'', ''The constellation of the virgin'' (1973). On television she appeared in series such as'' Anastasia'' (1994), The Prince (1996), "Betrayal" (1996), San sister (ET1 – 1998), Alma libre "(2001) and I love-I love and in 2004 had a small role in George Savv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galatsi
Galatsi (, ''Galátsi'' ), called in Katharevousa Galatsion (, ''Galátsion''), is a town, a northern suburb of Athens agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica (region), Attica region. The municipality has an area of 4.026 km2. Until the mid-20th century, the area was mainly made up of farmlands but due to the continuous expansion of the Greek capital, Galatsi was rapidly urbanised and has come to lie in the center of the Athens Urban agglomeration, agglomeration. Etymology Although several etymologies have been proposed about the origin of the name ''Galatsi'', which already appears in the book of 1870, ''History of Athens'', it originates from the surname of Symeon Galakis, a squire who purchased lands around the church of Agia Glykeria in 1851. Consequently, the whole area was given his name, which, according to the phenomenon featuring the old Athenian phonology and known as Varieties of Modern Greek#Phonological features, tsitakism, was pronounced 'Galats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |