2017 in Greece
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Events in the year 2017 in Greece.
Incumbents
- President: Prokopis Pavlopoulos
- Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras
Events
- Michael Skibbe is manager of the Greece National Football team.[1]
January
- Greece is given a rating of 35/40 regarding political rights, and a rating of 49/60 regarding civil liberties, by Freedom House.[2]
May
- 13 May – A train derailment in Adendro killed three people and hits a house.[3][4]
- 13 May - "This Is Love", performed by Demy, represents Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest.[5]
June
- 12 June – The 6.3 Mw Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing one and injuring ten.
July
- 21 July – The 6.6 Mw Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing two and injuring 480.[6]
September
- 9 September - The Greek FIBA team reaches the quarterfinals of the FIBA EuroBasket 2017, losing to Russia 69-74 in the process.[7]
November
- The Greek association football team reaches the playoffs of FIFA World Cup qualification, losing to Croatia 4-1 on aggregate in the process.[8]
- 15 November – In one of the greatest disasters in the area in decades, flash floods hit Western Attica, particularly the Athens suburb of Mandra, killing twenty-three.[9][10]
December
- December – Rebetiko, a Greek music genre, is added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.[11]
Deaths
- 13 January – Magic Alex, or Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics engineer (b. 1942).[12]
- 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP (b. 1913)
- 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP (b. 1954).[13]
- 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918).[14]
- 5 June – Georgios Masadis, footballer (b. 1944)
- 13 November – Yannis Kapsis, journalist and politician, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1929).[15]
- 16 December – Angela Kokkola, politician, former MEP (b. 1932).[16]
References
- ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Greece (2017)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
- ^ "Greece: Freedom in the World 2017 Country Report". Freedom House. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
- ^ Tagaris, Karolina (13 May 2017). "Three dead, 10 injured in Greek passenger train derailment". Reuters. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ "Adendro Greece Train Derailment". CWEB. 14 May 2017. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Kyiv 2017".
- ^ "M 6.6 - 11 km ENE of Kos, Greece". earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
- ^ "Greece at the FIBA EuroBasket 2017". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
- ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Greece (2017)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
- ^ "Τι αποκαλύπτουν οι δορυφόροι για την καταστροφή στη Δυτική Αττική". CNN.gr. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Στους 20 οι νεκροί από τις φονικές πλημμύρες: Η σορός ενός άνδρα εντοπίστηκε στη Μάνδρα". Left.gr. 2017-11-19. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- ^ "UNESCO adds rebetiko to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list | eKathimerini.com". www.ekathimerini.com. 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
- ^ "Αλέξης Μάρδας: Όταν οι Beatles τον "έχρισαν" Magic Alex!" [Alexis Mardas: When the Beatles called him Magic Alex!]. Newsit.gr (in Greek). 13 January 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- ^ "New Democracy MP dies of heart attack at age 63". ekathimerini.com. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ "former Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis dies". ekathimerini.com. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ^ "Veteran journalist, politician Yiannis Kapsis dies | eKathimerini.com". www.ekathimerini.com. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
- ^ Πέθανε η Αγγέλα Κοκκόλα (in Greek)
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