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Papandreou Family
Papandreou () is a Greek surname. It is the surname of: * Georgios Papandreou (historian) (1859–1940), historian and linguist * Georgios Papandreou (1888–1968), Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. * Dimitrios Papandreou (1891–1949), Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens. * Andreas Papandreou (1919–1996), Greek economist and politician and Prime Minister of Greece. * Vasso Papandreou (1944-2024), Greek PASOK politician, European Commissioner * George Papandreou George Andreas Papandreou (, , shortened to ''Giorgos'' () to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as a ... (born 1952), Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. * Giorgos Papandreou (born 1969), footballer Etymology. Probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (pápp ...
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Greek Surname
In the modern world, Greek names are the personal names among people of Greek language and culture, generally consisting of a given name and a family name. History Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare. But by the 11th and 12th centuries, elite families often used family names. Family names came from placenames, nicknames, or occupations.Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', 2016, , p. lii During the Ottoman period, surnames with Turkish prefixes such as "Hatzi-" (" Hacı"), "Kara-" ("brave") and suffixes such as "-(i)lis" ("li/lı" meaning "of"), "-tzis" ("ci/cı/çi/çı" meaning "-maker, -smith"), and "-oglou" ("o� ...
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Georgios Papandreou (historian)
Georgios Papandreou (Greek: Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου; 1859–1940) was a Greece, Greek historian, linguist and an author. Bibliography Georgios Papandreou (born 1859) was a Greek Teacher, educator and historian, born in Kalavryta. He was a literary figure based on Ilia, as he had been the first person to write about Ilia's history. In his books he always signed as Georgios Papandreou D.F. Papandreou was born in the village of Skoupi (now part of the municipality of Kalavryta) in Achaia, and spent his childhood years in Pyrgos, Elis, Pyrgos, where he later received education. Eventually, he moved to Athens where he studied philosophy and taught at schools, such as the middle school of Chalcis, Chalkida, as well as the middle school of Kalavryta. Furthermore, he acquired the position of headmaster at the 1st Middle School in Pyrgos for many years. In 1886, he became a PhD of the Athens Philosophical School with likeness in his member ''Away, In Ancient Psophis (πε� ...
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Georgios Papandreou
Georgios Papandreou (, ''Geórgios Papandréou''; 13 February 1888 – 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as the prime minister of Greece (1944–1945, 1963, 1964–1965). He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952, in the governments of Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos. He served numerous times as a cabinet minister, starting in 1923, in a political career that spanned more than five decades. Early life Papandreou was born Georgios Stavropoulos at Kalentzi, in the Achaea region of the northern Peloponnese. He was the son of Father Andreas Stavropoulos, an Orthodox archpriest (protopresvyteros). His last name is derived from his father's Christian name and the word ''papas'' "priest". He studied law in Athens and political science in Berlin. His political philosophy was heavily influenced by German social democracy. As a result, he was adamantly opposed to the monarchy and supp ...
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Archbishop Damaskinos Of Athens
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou (), born Dimitrios Papandreou (; 3 March 1891 – 20 May 1949), was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King George II to Greece in 1946. His rule was between the liberation of Greece from the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II and the Greek Civil War. Early life He was born Dimitrios Papandreou (no relation to the Papandreou political family from Achaea) in Dorvitsa, Greece. He enlisted in the Hellenic Army during the Balkan Wars. He was ordained a Greek Orthodox Church priest in 1917. In 1922, he was made Bishop of Corinth. He spent the early 1930s as an ambassador of the Ecumenical Patriarch in the United States, where he labored to help organize the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Election to the Archbishopric of Athens In 1938, he was elected Archbishop of Athens, ...
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Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek academic and economist who founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and served three terms as Prime minister of Greece, prime minister of Third Hellenic Republic, Greece. Papandreou was born in 1919, the son of Georgios Papandreou. In 1938, in his early 20s, Papandreou left Greece for United States to escape the 4th of August Regime, Metaxas' dictatorship (1936–1941) and became a prominent academic. Papandreou returned to Greece in 1959 after years of resisting his father's entreaties. His father, Georgios Papandreou, who was now Prime Minister of Greece, wanted him to return so that he could prepare him as his successor. However, Papandreou's rapid ascension, together with his uncompromising radical rhetoric only amplified Greece's post-Greek civil war, civil war political instability, which created the conditions for a group of colonels to stage a Coup d'état, coup d'etat and rule Greece ...
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Vasso Papandreou
Vasso Papandreou (; 9 December 1944 – 17 October 2024) was a Greek politician. After being in exile during the rule of the Greek junta, she returned to Greece in 1974 and was a founding member of PASOK. In 1981, she was awarded a PhD in economics from the University of Reading. She was a member of PASOK's Central Committee until 1988, and served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology from 1986 to 1987 and as Deputy Minister of Commerce in 1988. In 1989, she was appointed Greece's European Commissioner, taking the post of Commissioner for Employment, industrial relations and social affairs in the second Delors Commission. After her term on the commission, she returned to Greek domestic politics and was elected to the Hellenic Parliament in the 1993, 1996, 2000 elections, 2004, 2007 and 2009 elections. She served in all Costas Simitis government (1996–2004) as Minister of Economic Development (1996–1999), Minister of Interior (1999–2001) and Minister for t ...
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George Papandreou
George Andreas Papandreou (, , shortened to ''Giorgos'' () to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for PASOK-Kinima Allagis. Belonging to a political dynasty of long standing, he served under his father, then-prime minister Andreas Papandreou as Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs (1988–1989 and 1994–1996). He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Costas Simitis from 1999 to 2004. Papandreou was leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party, which his father founded, from February 2004 until March 2012, and has been president of the Socialist International from 30 January 2006 to 25 November 2022. On 6 October 2009, George Papandreou became the 182nd Prime Minister of Greece. He was the third member of the Papandreou family to serve as the country's prime minister, foll ...
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Giorgos Papandreou
Giorgos Papandreou (born 12 February 1969) is a retired Greek footballer who played for several teams in Greek Super League (Kavala, Paniliakos, Athinaikos, Ethnikos Asteras and Kalamata) and Cypriot First Division (Digenis Morphou and APOEL). He also played for years in Beta Ethniki and Gamma Ethniki The Gamma Ethniki (, C National Division) is the Greek football league system, third highest football league in Greece. History The Gamma Ethniki began in 1965 as an amateur championship, while in 1983 it was changed to professional. Although no .... He was a powerful striker. References 1969 births Living people Super League Greece players Football League (Greece) players Cypriot First Division players APOEL FC players Paniliakos F.C. players Charavgiakos F.C. players Digenis Akritas Morphou FC players Kalamata F.C. players Kavala F.C. players Athinaikos F.C. players Ethnikos Asteras F.C. players Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players Doxa Drama F.C. players Olym ...
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List Of Political Families In Greece
This article lists political families of Greece where two or more members of that family have been members or ministers of the Hellenic Parliament, the Greek Senate or of the European Parliament. For the purposes of this list, a "family" has been defined as a group of people where each person has one of the following relationships to at least one of the other people listed: *son, daughter, grandson or granddaughter *father, mother, grandfather or grandmother *nephew, niece, grandnephew or grandniece *uncle, aunt, great uncle or great aunt *sibling and first cousin *spouse (husband or wife) *connected by marriage ("-in-law" relationships) The list has been indexed against the name of the first family member to enter one of the bodies mentioned above. History Political dynasties have long been a feature of the Greek political landscape. They are typically characterized as families that have established their political careers usually starting from local politics and gradually mo ...
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Greek-language Surnames
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent 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 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 in science and philosophy were originally composed. The New Testament of the Christian ...
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Surnames
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. Compound sur ...
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