A unique triangle of history and civilization in the heart of Macedonia: - Vergina/Aigai, the first capital, the famous nekropolis of the ancient Macedonian kings, - Dion, the secret city of ancient Macedonians - Pella, the glorious Hellenistic capital of the ancient Hellenic kingdom of Macedonia The heart of Macedonia lives in Greece. From the YouTube channel of KRASOPATIR httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM8qgI0H2cw httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tNTRzZcA04

As local politicians in Athens bicker over the placement of a statue of Alexander the Great in front of City Hall on Kotzia Square, and the residents of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s capital Skopje gaze upon their own 24-meter effigy of the Macedonian warrior, the regions of Pella, Imathia and Pieria in ...

Presentation of the excavations at Dion by the Director of the University excavation program, Emeritus Professor Dimitrios Pantermalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Director Pericles Panagiotides www.medio.gr

Tuesday, April 20, 2010     Municipal and cultural representatives from Dion, Vergina/Aigai and Pella, meeting with the Hellenic community of Alexandria: Article in Eleutherotypia, by Giorgos Kiousis. Dion is the old religious and cultural center of the Macedonians, Aigai, in the modern village of Vergina is the old, historic capital of Macedonia, where its kings were ...

Αρχαία τέχνη για όσους μπορούν να... νοιώσουν Η Δρ Μαρία Λαγογιάννη δίπλα σε επιγραφή για τον ναό της Αθηνάς Νίκης Η Δρ. Μ. Λαγογιάννη, εμπνεύστρια της έκθεσης για την Αθηναϊκή Δημοκρατία, μιλά στο "Νέο Κόσμο" ΤΗΣ ΕΥΓΕΝΙΑΣ ΠΑΥΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ H κουβέντα μας με την αρχαιολόγο Δρ. Μαρία Λαγογιάννη, διευθύντρια του Επιγραφικού Μουσείου και εμπνεύστρια ...

By Dimitrios Pantermalis   Sanctuary of Demeter in Dion (Photo from the Greek Mag. "Archaeologia)   Dion (fr Gr Ζεύς, gen, Διός) means a holy, sanctified site Dion, in Macedo­nia, occupies a very narrow stnp of land between Mount Olympus foot and the Thermalhos Sea. The Olympian Zeus temenos, the main sanctuary of all Macedonians In antiquity was located there. Its ...