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Hronia Polla

August 6 - Sotiris, Sotiria
August 7 - Asterios, Asteria
August 15 - Assumption Day, Maria, Despina, Marios, Peter, Panagiotis, Panayiota
August 26 - Andrianos & Natalias (Adrian and Natalie)
August 27 - Fanourios, Fanouria
August 30 - Alexandros, Alexandra, Sandra

Did You Know

Sfakian People and the Dorians

"In the southwest part of the island of Crete today lives
a Dorian Greek tribe. They are very tall, fair haired and have blue eyes."

The warrior-like Dorians fanned out over much of the mainland, razing the city-states and enslaving the inhabitants, and later conquered Crete and the southwest coast of Asia Minor. Other Indo-European tribes known as the Thessalians settled in what is now Thessaly. Of the original Greek tribal groups, the Aeolians fled to the northwest coast of Asia Minor; the Ionians sought refuge on the central coast and the islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios, although they also held out in mainland Greece, in Attica and the well-fortified city of Athens. more...

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