Team Greece, European Basketball Champions!

[ST Dragon]

Team Greece, European Basketball Champions!

http://www.eurobasket2005.com/en/default.asp

Poor Germans & French.

They didn’t know what hit them!

Nowitzki & Tony Parker can go home now. 😉

All Europe bows to their New Champions!

A tribute to Greece.

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), Greek Macedonian conqueror of the Persian Empire, Egypt & India.

Alexander defeats King Darius and his Persian army at the battle of Issus. (333 BC)

Alexander in the battle against Porus, one of the most powerful Indian leaders, at the river Hydaspes (India 326 BC).

Imperator Constantinus XIII Dragases-Palaeologus, fallen in defence of the Christian Faith and the Fatherland, against the barbaric hordes of the East, on the 29th of May, 1453, in Constantinople.

State Flag of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire)

Coat of Arms of the Palaeologus Dynasty.

The Heroic Exit of the Besieged Warriors at the Mesologi Fortress, against the combined Turko-Egyptian forces (Greek Revolution 1826)

Modern State and Army Flag (Old Navy Flag)

 

[Mask of Destiny]

My fiance is 1st generation Greek-American. Though she doesn't care too much about sports.

Congratulations to the Greek team.

 

[schi0249]

Aren't they the ones who spanked the US in the olympics?

 

[Runik]

Originally posted by ST Dragon@Tue, 2005-09-27 @ 04:18 AM

Poor Germans & French.

They didn’t know what hit them!

Nowitzki & Tony Parker can go home now. 😉

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Mmmmhhh ... yeah ...

1) The french team was 2 points ahead at 3 seconds of the end of the semi final, and the greek team scored a money time 3 point ... so I don't see what's the point of your sentence, has both teams were really close to each other ...

2) Basketball is far from being the no 1 sport in France, by far

3) The greek soccer team was sacred european champion last year, and they too eliminated the french team in the semi finals ... history is repeating itself

4) I don't like basketball much (for what it's worth 😛 )

 

[it290]

Damn, that's some serious patriotism you've got going on there. On a side note, is Alexander the Great actually considered Greek? Not too clear on the history there... I know he was Macedonian, but he was of Greek descent? He's an interesting figure, but certainly he's not considered too 'great' by many of the people he conquered.

 

[ST Dragon]

Yes he was Greek.

Macedonians were the last Indo-European, Greek race to invade Greece, like the Achaeans, Dorians & Ionians before them. They established them selves on the northern part of Greece named Macedonia. They referred to them selves as Greeks, descendants of Hercules & their language was Greek. Their capital city was named Pella in the Greek province of "Filipi", after their King’s name “Philip” (Alexander’s father), which is situated in Northern Greece, not very far from Thessalonica, the Co-Capital of modern northern Greece.

Alexander’s mother was called “Olympia” and was from a Greek island on the Northern Aegean Sea, called “Samothraki”. There are quite a few ancient Greek temples there built by Philip, Alexander’s father.

The tombs of the Greek-Macedonian Kings are situated in “Vergina” a small Greek town not far from Filipi. They’re very well preserved today & the treasures recovered from the site, are all placed for the public in the Archaeological museum in Thessalonica. Note that all inscriptions on the Tombs & on the treasures are written using the Ancient Greek language & alphabet, not Slav (Cyrillic which did not exist at the time).

When Alexander united all Greek city-states under his rule & started his campaign to the east against the Persian Empire, his primary motive, as he said, was to impose the Greek spirit, culture & language (Not Macedonian) to the barbaric nations of the east (As the Greeks of the time referred to)

Alexander brought Greek ideas and the Greek way of doing things to all the countries he conquered. This great general and king made possible the broadly developed culture of the Hellenistic Age.

Now, the so-called “Skopians” which want to refer to them selves as “Macedonians”, are nothing more than a Slavic race (Slavs) (Like the Serbians, Bulgarians, Russians, Ukranians, etc…), a race that established them selves in the Northern part of Macedonia during the Byzantine Empire period (Eastern Roman), almost 1000 years after the death of Alexander the Great.

They were minions to the Greek Byzantine Emperors & their alphabet was the Cyrillic, created by Cyril & Methodius, two Greek philosophers of the Byzantine period. They were also turned into Christians by the Greek-Byzantine priests.

In the 20th century, their land was a region of the former Yugoslav republic called “Macedonia”, which after the division of Yugoslavia (in early 90’s), they preserved the name in contrast to the Greek Macedonian part. But the people are not Macedonians, not Greeks; they’re Slavs & definitely not descendants of Alexander, as they came a lot later.

Well for one thing Alexandros, Philipos, Olympia, etc… sound nothing like, Stanislav, Petrovits, Ilits, Bagevits, skatoulovits, malakovits, which are common Slav-Cyrillic names & definitely not Greek.