''Achaikos Kiryx'' (, ''Achaean Herald'') was a
newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...
that was founded on June 29, 1840, in
Patras
Patras (; ; Katharevousa and ; ) is Greece's List of cities in Greece, third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaiko ...
,
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
, by Nikolaos Maniakis.
[ It was the first Greek language newspaper published in Patras, preceded only by the '' Le Courrier d'Orient'', published in French in 1828.][ The newspaper's last issue was published on June 17, 1841.][
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See also
*List of newspapers in Greece
The number of national daily newspapers in Greece was 68 in 1950 and it increased to 156 in 1965.
Mid through the Greek financial crisis in 2016, on a national level there were 15 daily general interest, 11 daily sports, 4 daily business, 10 week ...
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