First Christmas tree in Greece and the custom of Eiressioni

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The first Christmas tree in Greece was King’s George fir, in 1834. It was decorated out of his house in Nafplio. It was a very strange spectacle for ...

Wedding, mores and customs

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THE WEDDING SYMBOLS White Wedding Dress White was not always worn at weddings, but was established as the color of the marriage during the Victorian ...

Wedding, matchmaker (marriage arranger)

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Typically, except for a few cases, marriages were held in matchmaking. Families decided and very often did not ask the people directly concerned. ...

Wedding, the end of the matchmaking

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When the conversation about the dowry was over, favorable, of course, then they all gave their hands, wished and kissed. Immediately the light was on ...

Wedding, the matchmaking agreement

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In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and Saint Procopius, we.................................... ................... ... and ...

Wedding, preperations

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After the end of the matchmaking, the giving of the hands, the composition of the provisional matchmaking agreement, the diadems and the engagement, ...

Wedding, Thrace

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Among the countless Thracian traditions of marriage, the characteristic is the "kouliki", that is, the brioche (sweet bread) of the wedding made by ...

Wedding, Pontian wedding customs

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The wedding in Pontus was not just a pleasant event, but rather a disturbing one, since the mother was now separated from her daughter. The bride's ...

Wedding, customs of Vlach wedding

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On Sunday morning, at the bride's home was taking place a kind of exhibition of her dowry (paea) and her gifts. The quantity and type of dowry judged ...

Christmas customs, Thrace

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‘Tsoumakes’ On Christmas Eve morning, many children groups came into the dark alleyways of the villages holding thick and long woods that are called ...

Carnival customs

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Bumpkin wedding (Vlachikos Gamos) It is a comic representation of the Bumpkin wedding, as it used to be. Scenes that cause laugh are the come and go ...

Carnival customs - the burn of Tzaros, Xanthi

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Tzaros or Tzarous, according to the inhabitants of East Thrace, was a constructed man-effigy, placed on a mass of yew trees. On the last Sunday of ...