This document provides information about Greece and the city of Veria. It begins with an overview of Greece, including its location, population, flag, language, religion, cities, islands, cuisine, and famous historical figures. It then describes the city of Veria, located in northern Greece, including its architecture, sights, river, local cuisine, economy based on agriculture, and cultural events. The document concludes by detailing the 5th Lyceum of Veria, the largest high school in the city, its facilities, academic achievements, extracurricular activities, and involvement in European projects.

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2. My country in EuropeMy country in Europe
Hellas (Greece inHellas (Greece in EnglishEnglish))
National
emblem
Flag
Hellenic Republic
Area: 131,990 km2
Population: ~12,000,000
Hellas
(Greece)

3. Hellas is surrounded in the north by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia and Albania, in the west by the Ionian Sea (Italy), in the south by the
Mediterranean Sea (Africa) and in the east by the Aegean Sea (Turkey)

4. GREEK LANGUAGE IS A BRANCH OF
INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES , IT
APPEARED 3,500 YEARS BC. THE
LATIN ALPHABET ORIGINATES
FROM IT..
The vast majority of Greeks are
Orthodox Christians and belong
to the autocephalous Church of
Greece
The most famous national symbol for
Greek is their flag. It has five blue and
four white stripes and a white cross
inside a blue square on the left up
corner. The nine stripes symbolize the
syllables of the words "freedom or
death", which in turn is the national
motto of Greece. The cross symbolizes
the Christian Orthodox religion which is
the official religion of Greece. The colors
symbolize the blue sea and white waves.

5. Athens, the capital of Greece

6. Parthenon Plaka
Greek ParliamentMonasteraki

7. Thessaloniki the second city of Greece

8. Greece has 2,000 islands. Some of them are:
Crete
RodosSamos
Zakynthos

9. Corfu
Mykonos
Santorini
Lefkada

10. Famous food
SouvlakiMousakas
Ntakos
gyros

11. Mediterranean diet

12. The Greek people excelled, from ancient years. They were
philosophers
Heraclitus
Pythagoras
Socrates
Plato Aristotelis

13. Physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, inventors
Hippocrates
Thales
Archimedes

14. Historians, Tragedians
Thoukididis Homer Herodotus
AischylosEuripides

15. Great ancient Commanders
Alexander the great
Pericles.
Leonidas.

16. Important greek Politicians after the liberation from
Ottomans.
Kapodistrias
Charilaos Trikoypis
Kolokotronis Thedoros
Elefterios Venizelos

17. Writers, poets, Composers
Nikos Kazantzakis
Odysseas Elytis
Mikis Theodorakis
George Seferis
Manos Xatzidakis
Konstantinos Kavafis
Dionisios Solomos

18. Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard)
Great phycisist
Dimitris Nanopoulos Famous phycisit in
CERN, NASA, ESA, HARC Houston)
Georgios Papanikolaou-
Pap Test
Contemporary distinguished Greek people

19. Greece today
• A country in the middle
of a political and financial crisis,
BUT
with solidarity and humanity

20. Veria, our city, a town of 65.000
inhabitants in Northern Greece

21. Veria the capital of the prefecture of Imathia

22. Region: Central Macedonia
Prefecture: Imathia

23. In our city Veria you can see the traditional
architecture

24. along with the modern town

25. The oldest school of Veria renovated
and serves as the town hall

26. The Public Central Library of Veria
• The Public Central Library of Veria is one of the most
known in Greece. It contains more than 100.000 books
and 70.000 e-books, board games, CD-Roms and music
CD’s. The library received the "Access to Knowledge
award" by the Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates for the
year 2010.

27. Famous Sightseeing's
The new Court
The old Court

28. The Archaeological Museum

29. The Byzantine museum

30. An old church , 15th
century
(There are 72 Byzantine churchs)

31. Veria is one of the places which Saint
Paul visited

32. The town of Veria was a mosaic of
cultures …
Jewish synagogue, when there
was in Veria populous Jewish
community (until 1943)
Medrese Mosque, a monument of
the Ottoman occupation

33. The river Tripotamos flows through the
town

34. Vergina, a small village near
Veria, an important center
of the Hellenic history. It
became widely known in
1977, when the Greek
archaeologist Manolis
Andronikos discovered a
burial monument, including
the tomb of Philip II, father
of Alexander the Great.
Inside the"Great Tumulus
The entrance to the "Great Tumulus" Museum
from the museum

35. Local Cuisine
beans in the oven
pies filled with cheese, leek and herbs
revani
meetaballs

36. The region’s economy is based mainly at agriculture and
at the production of fruits (mainly peach) and vegetables

37. The river Aliakmonas crosses the county of
Imathia, and is the biggest river of Greece
• The dams that have
been created are
used to generate
electricity

38. Concerts and other events on the
river’s banks

39. The open amphitheater “Melina
Mercouri”

40. SPORTS
The local football team Veria
The famous hanball team Philippos

41. Other sports activities…

42. Ski centers 25Km from Veria, at mountain
Vermio

43. 5th Lyceum of Veria

45. Our school- 5th Lyceum of Veria
• 5th
Lyceum is the biggest
Lyceum in Veria.
• It has 370 students and 40
teachers.
• There are three grades in
our school.
• Students of the 3rd
grade
sit for university entrance
exams in May.

46. The corridor

47. Teachers’ office (main building)

48. Our school yard

49. The football ground in the yard

50. 5th Lyceum of Veria
is well equipped, with a large library

51. … and a lot of laboratories

52. One of the Laboratories

53. Students in the Lab

55. We LOVE our school!

56. And we are proud of it
Because……….
1. 90 % of the students succeed in the panhellenic
university exams and get a place in a university
faculty.
2. It runs a lot of enironmental projects to make us
more sensitive to the environment protection.
3. There is a theatrical group and a music band to
develop our talents
4. we have the opportunity to take part in european
projects, ex- Comenius, Erasmus, etwinning, so we
make friends from Europe and we learn to cooperate
with each other.

57. 5. We have participated in European youth Parliament
6. We have got four distinctions in Food4you european competition
organised by Italy
7. School has been awarded three successsive years with the european
etwinning prize “Maria Slodowska-Ciouri” for the etwinning projects
with schools from France, Slovenia, Italy and one etwinning award
on national level.
8. School sports teams are ones of the best in Imathia prefecture at
handball and football.
9. There are talented students who write poems, literature, who are
vey good at graphics design.

58. The activities of our school online
http://blogs.sch.gr/5lykvero/
http://5lyk-veroias.ima.sch.gr/

59. Pics from the awards

63. Also in our school there are held
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uwb07G3R8
Activities
against
racism
• Activities for
refugees
• common activities
with the nearby
Special Needs School

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65. Hope you enjoyed it!
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