Greek dances, the Glossary
Greek dance (choros; chorós) is an old tradition, being referred to by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian.[1]
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189 relations: Aegean Islands, Agathonisi, Ai Georgis, Anatolia, Angaliastos, Antikristos, Antipatitis, Antistrophe, Apanomeritis, Aristotle, Armenian dance, Aromanians, Arvanites, Assyrian folk dance, Atsiapat, Ballos, Berat, Black Sea, Bougatsas, Byzantine dance, Byzantine music, Cappadocia, Cappadocian Greeks, Carpaea, Caucasus Greeks, Central Greece (geographic region), Cephalonia, Chios, Choreia, Chronis Aidonidis, Constantinople, Cordax, Corfu, Crete, Cyprus, Dance, Dionysiakos, Dipat, Diplos horos, Dora Stratou, East Thrace, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Edessa, Greece, Endeka Kozanis, Epirus (region), Erythrae, Fisounis, Florina, Gaitanaki, Gaitani, ... Expand index (139 more) »
Aegean Islands
The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.
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Agathonisi
Agathonísi (Αγαθονήσι) is a small Greek island and municipality located at the northernmost point of the Dodecanese in Greece.
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Ai Georgis
Ai Georgis (Άη Γιώργης) is a dance from the village of Nestani in Arkadia, a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus which takes its name from the mythological character Arcas.
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Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Angaliastos
Angaliastos (αγκαλιαστός), is a kind of Greek folk dance from Crete, Greece. Greek dances and Angaliastos are music of Greece.
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Antikristos
Antikristos or Antikrystós (αντικρυστός χορός) is a dance of Greek origin. Greek dances and Antikristos are music of Greece.
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Antipatitis
Antipatitis (αντιπατητής) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Greek island Karpathos, Greece.
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Antistrophe
Antistrophe (ἀντιστροφή, "a turning back") is the portion of an ode sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west.
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Apanomeritis
Apanomeritis (απανωμερίτης) is a kind of Greek folk dance from Crete, Greece.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
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Armenian dance
The Armenian dance (Armenian: Հայկական պար) heritage has been considered the oldest and most varied in its respective region.
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Aromanians
The Aromanians (Armãnji, Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language.
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Arvanites
Arvanites (Arvanitika: Αρbε̱ρεσ̈ε̰, or Αρbε̰ρορε̱,; Greek: Αρβανίτες) are a population group in Greece of Albanian origin.
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Assyrian folk dance
Assyrian folk dances are sets of dances that are performed throughout the world by Assyrians, mostly on occasions such as weddings, community parties and other jubilant events.
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Atsiapat
Atsiapat, also spelt atsapat (Άτσαπατ), is the first in a sequence of three Pontic Greek male dances performed in the region of Pontus, as well as by refugees of Pontos. Greek dances and Atsiapat are music of Greece.
Ballos
The Ballos (Μπάλος) is a Greek folk dance and a form of sirtos. Greek dances and Ballos are music of Greece.
Berat
Berat (Berati) is the ninth most populous city of Albania and the seat of Berat County and Berat Municipality.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
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Bougatsas
Bougatsas (Μπουγατσάς), is a kind of a Greek folk dance from the city of Florina, Macedonia, Greece.
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Byzantine dance
Byzantine dance developed during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, was centered in the capital city of Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople.
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Byzantine music
Byzantine music (Vyzantiné mousiké) originally consisted of the songs and hymns composed for the courtly and religious ceremonial of the Byzantine Empire and continued, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in the traditions of the sung Byzantine chant of Eastern Orthodox liturgy. Greek dances and Byzantine music are music of Greece.
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Cappadocia
Cappadocia (Kapadokya, Greek: Καππαδοκία) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey.
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Cappadocian Greeks
Cappadocian Greeks, also known as Greek Cappadocians (Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες; Rumlar) or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia; roughly the Nevşehir and Kayseri provinces, and their surroundings, in modern-day Turkey.
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Carpaea
Carpaea or Karpaea (Καρπαία and Κάρπεα) among the Aenianians, Magnesians, and Macedonians was a kind of mimic military dance, performed by two persons; the one acting as a laborer, the other as a robber.
Caucasus Greeks
The Caucasus Greeks (Έλληνες τουΚαυκάσουor more commonly Καυκάσιοι Έλληνες, Kafkas Rum), also known as the Greeks of Transcaucasia and Russian Asia Minor, are the ethnic Greeks of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia in what is now southwestern Russia, Georgia, and northeastern Turkey.
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Central Greece (geographic region)
Continental Greece (Stereá Elláda; formerly Χέρσος Ἑλλάς, Chérsos Ellás), colloquially known as Roúmeli (Ρούμελη), is a traditional geographic region of Greece.
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Cephalonia
Kefalonia or Cephalonia (Κεφαλονιά), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (Κεφαλληνία), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios.
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Chios
Chios (Chíos, traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea, and the tenth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Choreia
Choreia (choreía) is a circle dance accompanied by singing (see Greek chorus, choros), in ancient Greece.
Chronis Aidonidis
Chronis Aidonidis (Χρόνης Αηδονίδης; 23 September 1928 – 23 October 2023) was a Greek singer from Karoti, a village now belonging to Didymoteicho, Greece.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
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Cordax
The cordax (κόρδαξ), was a provocative, licentious, and often obscene mask dance of ancient Greek comedy.
Corfu
Corfu or Kerkyra (Kérkyra) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the nation's northwestern frontier with Albania.
Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Dance
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.
Dionysiakos
Dionysiakos (Διονυσιακός Χορός) is a form of Greek dance and customs from ancient Greece.
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Dipat
Dipat is a Greek spiritual dance.
Diplos horos
The Diplos Horos (Διπλός Χορός) is a dance from Messenia in the Peloponnese, Greece. Greek dances and Diplos horos are music of Greece.
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Dora Stratou
Dora Stratou (born Dorothea Stratou; Δωροθέα (Δόρα) Στράτου; 1903–1988) was a Greek actress and choreographer, with significant contributions to Greek Folk Dancing and Greek Folk Music.
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East Thrace
East Thrace or eastern Thrace (Doğu Trakya or simply Trakya; Anatolikí Thráki; Iztochna Trakiya), also known as Turkish Thrace or European Turkey, is the part of Turkey that is geographically a part of Southeast Europe.
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Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (translit) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.
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Edessa, Greece
Edessa (Έδεσσα,; also known as the "City of Waters and of the 5 Senses"), until 1923 Vodena (Βοδενά), is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the Pella regional unit, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece.
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Endeka Kozanis
Endeka Kozanis is a traditional Greek dance, mostly danced at the region of Kozani.
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Epirus (region)
Epirus (translit) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region in northwestern Greece.
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Erythrae
Erythrae or Erythrai (Ἐρυθραί) later Litri, was one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor, situated 22 km north-east of the port of Cyssus (modern name: Çeşme), on a small peninsula stretching into the Bay of Erythrae, at an equal distance from the mountains Mimas and Corycus, and directly opposite the island of Chios.
Fisounis
Fisounis is a Greek dance.
Florina
Florina (Φλώρινα, Flórina; known also by some alternative names) is a town and municipality in the mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece.
Gaitanaki
Gaitanaki (γαϊτανάκι) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece.
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Gaitani
Gaitani (Γαϊτάνι) is a village in the southern part of the island of Zakynthos.
Gerontikos
Gerontikos (γεροντικός) is the Greek name for the traditional Starsko Oro (Slavic) dance of the Florina region of Greece. Greek dances and Gerontikos are music of Greece.
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Giknas
Giknas is a folk dance from Orestiada in Thrace.
Greek Americans
Greek Americans (Ελληνοαμερικανοί Ellinoamerikanoí Ελληνοαμερικάνοι Ellinoamerikánoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry.
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Greek dances
Greek dance (choros; chorós) is an old tradition, being referred to by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian. Greek dances and Greek dances are Culture of Greece and music of Greece.
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Greek musical instruments
Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the stringser from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era". Greek dances and Greek musical instruments are Culture of Greece and music of Greece.
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Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco is an ecclesiastical territory or metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Pacific region of the United States, encompassing the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
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Greek traditional music
Greek traditional music (Greek: παραδοσιακή μουσική, "traditional music"; also δημοτικά τραγούδια, "folk songs") includes a variety of Greek styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and other parts of Europe. Greek dances and Greek traditional music are music of Greece.
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Griko people
The Griko people (Γκρίκο), also known as Grecanici in Calabria, are an ethnic Greek community of Southern Italy. They are found principally in regions of Calabria and Apulia (peninsula of Salento). The Griko are believed to be remnants of the once large Ancient and Medieval Greek communities of southern Italy (the ancient Magna Graecia region), although there is dispute among scholars as to whether the Griko community is directly descended from Ancient Greeks or from more recent medieval migrations during the Byzantine domination.
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Hasapiko
The hasapiko (χασάπικο,, meaning “the butcher's ”) is a Greek folk dance from Constantinople. Greek dances and hasapiko are music of Greece.
Hatzichristos
Hatzichristos (Χατζηχρήστος) is a type of a Greek folk dance from Central Greece. Greek dances and Hatzichristos are music of Greece.
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Horon
Horon (khorón; Laz: oxoronu) is a group of traditional folk dances from the Pontus or Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey.
Hyporchema
The hyporchema (ὑπόρχημα) was a lively kind of mimic dance which accompanied the songs used in the worship of Apollo, especially among the Dorians.
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Icaria
Icaria, also spelled Ikaria (Ικαρία), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos.
Ikariotikos
Ikariotikos (Ικαριώτικος) or Kariotikos (Καριώτικος, sometimes written with an apostrophe as 'Καριώτικος) is a traditional dance and accompanying song originating in Ikaria a Greek island in the North Eastern Aegean Sea.
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International folk dance
International folk dance includes Balkan dance, Middle Eastern dance, contra dance, Hungarian dance, polka, Chinese dance, and Japanese dance.
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Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: Ἰόνιαι Νῆσοι, Ionioi Nēsoi) are a group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece.
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Isios
Isios is a folk dance on Kalymnos Green The Isios Horos (meaning straight dance) as it is called by the locals is done at social gatherings and festivals.
Isos Sinasos
Isos Sinasos is a characteristic dance of the region and area.
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Kaşık Havası
Kaşık Havası (Kaşık Havası, spoon tune) or Kaşık Oyunları (Kaşık Oyunları, spoon dances; Χορός κουταλιών) are folk dances mostly spread over the Mediterranean region and have a varying structure of their arrangement, performance, rhythmic, and melodic characteristics.
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Kalamatianos
The Kalamatianós (Καλαματιανός) is one of the best known dances of Greece.
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Kalymnos
Kalymnos (Κάλυμνος) is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
Kanella
Kanella (Κανέλλα), is a Cretan folk dance from Rethymno, Greece.
Kangeli
Kangeli (καγκέλι) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece. Greek dances and Kangeli are music of Greece.
Kapitan Louka
Kapetan Louka or Kapitan Louka (Καπετάν Λουκάς) is a dance from the region of Macedonia in Greece.
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Karamanlides
The Karamanlides (Karamanlídes; Karamanlılar), also known as Karamanli Greeks: "Turkophone Greeks are called Karamanli Greeks or Karamanlides, and their language and literature is called Karamanli Turkish or Karamanlidika, but the scholarly literature has no equivalent terms for Turkophone Armenians." or simply Karamanlis, are a traditionally Turkish-speaking Greek Orthodox people native to the region of Karaman in Anatolia.
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Karpathos
Karpathos (Κάρπαθος), also Carpathos, is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
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Kars
Kars (or; Qars; Qers) is a city in northeast Turkey.
Karystos
Karystos (Κάρυστος) or Carystus is a small coastal town on the Greek island of Euboea.
Kastorianos
Kastorianos (Καστοριανός) is a kind of a Greek folk dance from Macedonia, Greece.
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Katsabadianos
Katsabadianos (Κατσαμπαδιανός), is a folk dance with Cretan origin.
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Kechagiadikos
Kechagiadikos is a circle dance done on the Island of Lemnos in Greece.
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Kemenche
Kemenche (kemençe) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Greece, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan.
Kerkiraikos
Kerkiraikos (Κερκυραϊκός), also called Rouga and Perdika, is a form of a Greek folk dance from the island of Corfu.
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Kinigitos
Kinigitos (κυνηγητός) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thrace, Greece.
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Kleistos
Kleistos horos is a circle dance from Thessaly.
Kochari
Kochari is a folk dance originating in the Armenian Highlands.
Koftos
Koftos (Κοφτός) is a lively Greek dance typical of the areas of Thessaly, Epirus and central Greece.
Korybantes
According to Greek mythology, the Korybantes or Corybantes (also Corybants) (Κορύβαντες) were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing.
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Kos
Kos or Cos (Κως) is a Greek island, which is part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
Koutsos
The Koutsos (Κουτσός) is a folk dance from Didymoteicho, Greece.
Kozani
Kozani (Κοζάνη) is a town in northern Greece, capital of Kozani regional unit and of Western Macedonia.
Kythira
Kythira (Κύθηρα), also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira, is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula.
Kythnos
Kythnos (Κύθνος), commonly called Thermia (Θερμιά), is a Greek island and municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos.
Lafina
Lafina (λαφίνα) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece.
Lambri Kamara
Lambri Kamara (Λαμπρή Καμάρα) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Megara, Attika, Greece.
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Lefkada
Lefkada (Λευκάδα, Lefkáda), also known as Lefkas or Leukas (Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Λευκάς, Leukás, modern pronunciation Lefkás) and Leucadia, is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge.
Lemnos
Lemnos or Limnos (Λήμνος; Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea.
Lerikos
Lerikos (Λέρικος) is a traditional Greek circle dance.
Leros
Leros (Λέρος), also called Lero (from the Italian language), is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea.
Leventikos
Leventikos (Λεβέντικος, Levéntikos); or Bufčansko (Буфчанско), also known as Litós (Λιτός), Kucano, Nešo or Pusteno, is a dance of western Macedonia, mainly performed by ethnic Macedonians and Greeks in the town of Florina, Greece and in the Resen and Bitola regions in the neighbouring North Macedonia. Greek dances and Leventikos are music of Greece.
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Lipothymiarikos
Lipothymiarikos or Horos tis Nifis (Greek Λιποθυμιάρικος or Χορός της νύφης) is a dance done in the early hours of the morning at a wedding reception. Greek dances and Lipothymiarikos are Culture of Greece.
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Loulouvikos
Loulovikos (Λουλοβίκος or Λουλουβίκος) is a male dance from Megara Attikis, Greece.
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Lucian
Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia (Makedonía) is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans.
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Macedonia (region)
Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.
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Makedonikos antikristos
Makedonikos antikristos (Μακεδονικός Αντικριστός) is a dance from Macedonia in Greece. Greek dances and Makedonikos antikristos are music of Greece.
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Makrinitsa dance
Makrinitsa dance (ο χορός της μακρυνίτσας), is Greek traditional dance from Naousa, Greece. Greek dances and Makrinitsa dance are music of Greece.
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Maniatikos
Maniatikos (Μανιάτικος), is a traditional Greek folk dance originating from the Mani, Greece region in the southern Peloponnese of Greece.
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Megara
Megara (Μέγαρα) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece.
Metsovitikos (dance)
Metsovitikos (Μετσοβίτικος xoρός) is a kind of a local folk dance from Metsovo, Greece.
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Monodiplos
Monodiplos is a traditional dance from the area of Messenia in the Peloponnese.
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Mustafapaşa, Ürgüp
Mustafapaşa, formerly known as Sinasos (Greek: Σινασός), is a village in the Ürgüp District of Nevşehir Province, Turkey.
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Mytilene
Mytilene (Mytilíni) is the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos, and its port.
Naousa, Imathia
Naousa (Νάουσα, historically Νάουσσα - Naoussa; Naustã), officially The Heroic City of Naousa is a city in the Imathia regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece.
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Naxos
Naxos (Νάξος) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades.
Nisiotika
Nisiotika (νησιώτικα, meaning "insular (songs)") are the songs and dances of the Aegean islands with a variety of styles.
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Nizamikos
Nizamikos is a Greek dance of Naoussa for men which is danced with handle of the hands with palms bent their struggles.
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Northern Thrace
Northern Thrace or North Thrace (Северна Тракия, Severna Trakiya; Kuzey Trakya; Βόρεια Θράκη), also called Bulgarian Thrace, constitutes the northern and largest part of the historical region of Thrace.
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Ntames
Ntames (ντάμες), is a Cretan folk dance from Rethymno, Greece.
Ntournerakia
Ntournerakia (ντουρνεράκια), is a Cretan folk dance from Rethymno, Greece.
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O Nikolos
O Nikolos (Ο Νικολός), is a kind of a Greek folk dance from the area of Siatista, Greece.
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Omal
The Omal (also called Duz Horon or Flat Horon) was one of the first Pontic Greek folk dances to be developed from the region of Pontos.
Omorfoula
Omorfoula, Ομορφούλα (el) or Litseno is an anonymous Greek folkloric tune. Greek dances and Omorfoula are music of Greece.
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Palamakia
The Palamakia (παλαμάκια) is a Greek folk dance from Zagorochoria and Tzoumerka in Greece.
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Panagia
Panagia (Παναγία, fem. of, +, the All-Holy, or the Most Holy; pronounced) (also transliterated Panaghia or Panajia), in Medieval and Modern Greek, is one of the titles of Mary, mother of God, used especially in Orthodox Christianity and Eastern Catholicism.
Partalos
Partalos (παρτάλος), is a Greek dance from Macedonia, Greece.
Paydushko horo
Pajdushko horo; (Пайдушко хоро|Paiduško horo) is a folk dance from North Bulgaria and South-west Bulgaria.
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.
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Pentozali
The Pentozali or Pentozalis (Πεντοζάλης) is the trademark folk dance of the island of Crete.
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Pidikhtos
Pidikhtos (πηδηχτός), is a Greek folk dance with Cretan origin, dancing in a circle formation.
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Pilioritikos
Pilioritikos (Πηλιορίτικος) is a kind of a Greek folk dance from Pilio, (Thessaly), Greece.
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Pirgousikos
Pirgousikos is a dance from Chios done during the festival season called the Apokries (Carnival) before Lent and at weddings.
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Pizzica
Pizzica is a popular Italian folk dance, originally from the Salento peninsula in Apulia and later spreading throughout the rest of Apulia and the regions of Calabria and eastern Basilicata.
Plataniotiko Nero
Plataniotiko Nero is a syrtos style dance from the Island of Samos named after a village on the island called Platano and from the famous song on the island called "Το πλατανιώτικο νερό".
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Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Plutarch
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Podaraki
Podaraki (Pontic Greek: Ποδαράκι) is a Greek dance from the Pontos region.
Pontic Greeks
The Pontic Greeks (Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Πόντιοι, or Ελληνοπόντιοι,; პონტოელი ბერძნები), also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek group indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia (in Turkey).
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Pontus (region)
Pontus or Pontos (translit) is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.
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Poustseno
Poustseno Macedonian language Пуштено", Pushteno, meaning "to let go" is a traditional Macedonian dance from Florina, Western Macedonia Greece.
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Proskinitos
Proskinitos is a form of a Greek folk dance from Macedonia, Greece.
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Pyrrhichios
The Pyrrhichios or Pyrrhike dance ("Pyrrhic dance"; Ancient Greek: πυρρίχιος or πυρρίχη, but often misspelled as πυρρίχειος or πυρήχειος) was the best known war dance of the Greeks.
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Rhodes
Rhodes (translit) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Rougatsiarikos
Rougatsiarikos (ρουγκατσιάρικος) is a kind of a Greek traditional dance from Thessaly, Greece.
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Samos
Samos (also; Sámos) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese archipelago, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the Mycale Strait.
Samsun
Samsun, historically known as Sampsounta (Σαμψούντα) and Amisos (Ancient Greek: Ἀμισός), is a city on the north coast of Turkey and a major Black Sea port.
Sarakatsani
The Sarakatsani (Σαρακατσάνοι, also written Karakachani, каракачани) are an ethnic Greek population subgroup who were traditionally transhumant shepherds, native to Greece, with a smaller presence in neighbouring Bulgaria, southern Albania, and North Macedonia.
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Serra (dance)
The Serra (Σέρρα) is a Pontic Greek war dance of ancient Greek origin, from the Pontus region of the Black Sea.
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Shalakho
Shalakho (շալախո,, შალახო or კინტოური) is a dance famous throughout all of Caucasus.
Sianos
Sianos is a Greek dance meant to open festivities or social gatherings.
Simeriani
Simeris/Simeriani (σήμερις or σημεριανή) is a popular song and dance from Sinasos, Cappadocia.
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Sirtaki
Sirtaki or syrtaki (συρτάκι) is a dance of Greek origin, choreographed for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek.
Skiathos
Skiathos (Skiáthos,; Skíathos,; and) is a small Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea.
Sousta
Sousta (Σούστα) is a Greek folk dance, performed at weddings as an activity of courtship between husband and wife.
Southern Italy
Southern Italy (Sud Italia,, or Italia meridionale,; 'o Sudde; Italia dû Suddi), also known as Meridione or Mezzogiorno (Miezojuorno; Menzujornu), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern regions.
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Sperveri
Sperveri is a dance done at the wedding on the island of Rhodes.
Stamoulo
Stamoulo (Σταμούλω) is a Greek dance from Aridaia, a former municipality of Pella, Greece.
Suda
The Suda or Souda (Soûda; Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas (Σουίδας).
Symi
Symi, also transliterated as Syme or Simi (Σύμη), is a Greek island and municipality.
Syrtos
Syrtos (συρτός, syrtos (also sirtos); plural συρτοί, syrtoi (also sirtoi); sometimes called in English using the Greek accusative forms syrto (also sirto); from the σύρω, syro (also siro), "to drag ") is – in classical and modern Greece – a traditional dance in which the dancers link hands to form a chain or circle, headed by a leader who intermittently breaks away to perform improvised steps. Greek dances and syrtos are music of Greece.
Ta Xila
Ta Xila is a song played for a traditional couple dance on the island of Lesvos.
Tamzara
Tamzara is a folk dance native to Armenian Highlands.
Tapeinos horos
The Tapeinos horos (Ταπεινός χορός) is a traditional Greek dance.
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Tarantella
Tarantella is a group of various southern Italian folk dances originating in the regions of Calabria, Campania and Puglia.
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Tatsia
Tatsia ("sieve") is a Cypriot traditional dance, performed with a sieve (tatsia -τατσιά in the Cypriot dialect).
Thasos
Thasos or Thassos (Θάσος, Thásos) is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea.
Thessaly
Thessaly (translit; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name.
Thrace
Thrace (Trakiya; Thráki; Trakya) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe.
Tilos
Tílos (Τήλος; Telos) is a small Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea.
Topolovgrad
Topolovgrad (Тополовград) is a town in south-central Bulgaria, part of Haskovo Province, situated at the northern foot of the Sakar Mountain.
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Tranos Choros
Tranos Choros (Τρανός Χορός) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Kozani, Greece. Greek dances and Tranos Choros are music of Greece.
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Trata (dance)
The Trata (Τράτα) is a traditional commemorative dance performed every two years in Megara in Attica, but also in the Aegean Islands.
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Tromakton
Tromakton (τρομακτόν) is a Greek dance that usually precedes or follows a Tik. Greek dances and Tromakton are music of Greece.
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Tsakonikos
The Tsakonikos or Tsakonikos horos (Τσακώνικος χορός "Tsakonian dance") is a dance performed in the Peloponnese in Greece.
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Tsamiko
The Tsamikos (Τσάμικος, Tsamikos) or Kleftikos (Κλέφτικος) is a popular traditional folk dance of Greece, done to music of 3/4 meter.
Tsestos
Tsestos (τσέστος), is a challenging dance from Northern Greece (the region named Thrace or in Greek language Thraki. The dance starts with a moderate rhythm and is danced by both men and women with very few figure (this is an intro dance named dousko, the steps are the same with the dance zonaradiko. Greek dances and Tsestos are music of Greece.
Tsifteteli
Tsifteteli (τσιφτετέλι) or Çiftetelli, is a rhythm and dance of Anatolia and the Balkans. Greek dances and Tsifteteli are music of Greece.
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Turkish folk dance
Turkish folk dances are the folk dances of Turkey.
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Ukrainian Greeks
Ukrainian Greeks are a Greek minority that reside in or used to reside in the territory of modern Ukraine.
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Vayia Strose kai Louloudia
Vayia Strose kai Louloudia (Βάγια στρώστε και λουλούδια "lay bay leaves and flowers") is a dance from the Island of Samos.
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Western Macedonia
Western Macedonia (translit) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia.
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Western Thrace
Western Thrace or West Thrace (Θράκη, Thráki) also known as Greek Thrace or Aegean Thrace, is a geographic and historical region of Greece, between the Nestos and Evros rivers in the northeast of the country; East Thrace, which lies east of the river Evros, forms the European part of Turkey, and the area to the north, in Bulgaria, is known as Northern Thrace.
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Zakynthos
Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Zákynthos; Zacinto) or Zante (Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
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Zaramo (dance)
Zaramo (Macedonian Зарамо) is a popular shoulder-hold dance in North Macedonia and also in Macedonia (Greece), in the region around Florina.
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Zeibekiko
Zeibekiko (Ζεϊμπέκικο) is a Greek folk dance, similar to Turkish Zeybek dance.
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Zervos
Zervos is a surname.
Zervos (dance)
Zervos (Ζερβός) is the name of a folk dance in Karpathos and Eastern Rumelia (Northern Thrace - Βόρεια Θράκη)(Ανατολική Ρωμυλία) which is danced in Greece and generally in the Balkans anticlockwise (to the left). Greek dances and Zervos (dance) are music of Greece.
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Zonaradiko
Zonaradiko (Ζωναράδικος) is a traditional Greek folk dance from Thrace (Greece) that is named after the dance's handhold.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_dances
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