Panos and Petrology

Stay Greek Beby! Just like the Most Interesting Man in the World, Chuck Norris wants to par-tay with Mr. Panos. But even Mr. Panos wants to be admitted as a student of Petrology, but there is a long waiting list lol

Be Courageous

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The film is part of a Greek short film festival and the winner with the most "likes" on YouTube will be nominated for a People's Choice Award in Toronto, Canada. The music score was written by a good friend of ours' Natalia Pardalis.

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Νέα Ρωμαίικα γλώσσα

New or Modern Greek language (historically known as Roman), refers to different language varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the period of language Modern Greek place, mostly symbolic, since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, although many characteristics of the New Greek had made ​​their appearance before the centuries - from the 3rd century BCE to the 10th century [5] During the period of Modern Greek, the language was in a state of bilingualism , as well as local dialects coexisted with archaic forms of official language. H Modern Greek began to take its present form in the late 17th century. Today, the Common Modern Greek is spoken by about 12-15 million people, mainly in Greece and Cyprus, and as a minority language in many other countries... (See tranlation here)

Interesting, even Google recognises the proper meaning for the name of the language Ρωμέϊκα is Roman (or Roman language, "...ιστορικά γνωστή και ως Ρωμαίικα...").

Why cannot we? Why should be still living the racist lies of the London Protocol of 1/30/1836?

Fr. John S. Romanides writes:

"The foundation of the plan for the destruction and the dividing up of the Ottoman Empire between Britain, France and Russia became the Balkanization of Ottoman Rumeli and the Westernization of both the Orthodox Christians and the Moslems. But this process required the use of a new term in order to cover up the falsification in progress. What had to be solved was a problem inherited from the Franco-Latin tradition which came into existence in 794. Since this year the Franco-Latins had been calling the East Romans by the name "Greeks." But these so-called "Greeks" were still calling themselves Romans while the Turks, Arabs and other non Franco-Latin peoples were calling them Romans also. So to claim that Hellenes are being liberated from Romans made sense in these languages, but not within the Franco-Latin tradition. To say in the Franco-Latin tradition that "Hellenes" are being liberated from "Greeks" is a nonsensical contradiction in terms. The name "Greek" is the Latin word for Greek and "Hellene" is the Greek word for Greek. So the term "Byzantine" was finally chosen by Britain, Russia and France to make it possible to depict the Hellenic Greeks as being liberated from the Byzantines. This position was first made public in George Finlay's "History of Greece" But before Finlay's "History" appeared, we come across decisions whereby Greeks are being legally transformed into Hellenes. Thus, in the London Protocol of 1/30/1836 signed by Britain, France and Russia, we come across "Greeks" being legally transformed into "Hellenes" in the French language. In Turkish we have "Romans" being legally transformed into "Hellenes." Because Greek diplomats at the time knew French they therefore felt that they did not require translations. But in translations subsequently made we find "Hellenes" being transformed into "Hellenes" instead of "Greeks" being transformed into "Hellenes." In other words they did not know that the Franco-Latin use of the name "Greek" had become a substitute for the name "Roman" since 794."

Read more here: http://www.romanity.org/htm/rom.02.en.the_cure_of_the_neurobiological_sickness_of_rel.02.htm