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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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/
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