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Greeks in Germany, the Glossary

The Greeks in Germany comprise German residents or citizens of Greek heritage and Greeks who immigrated to Germany.^[1]

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Adam Bousdoukos

Adam Bousdoukos (Αδάμ Μπουσδούκος.; born 25 January 1974) is a German actor of Greek origin. Greeks in Germany and Adam Bousdoukos are German people of Greek descent.

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Anastasia Zampounidis

Anastasia Zampounidis (Αναστασία Ζαμπουνίδη; born 28 December 1968) is a Greek-German TV host. Greeks in Germany and Anastasia Zampounidis are German people of Greek descent.

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Andromache Dimitropoulou (Ανδρομάχη Δημητροπούλου,; born 12 October 1994), known professionally as Andromache and sometimes Andromachi, is a Greek singer who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Ela".

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Antonios Papadopoulos (Αντώνιος Παπαδόπουλος; born 10 September 1999) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Swiss club Lugano. Greeks in Germany and Antonios Papadopoulos (footballer) are German people of Greek descent.

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Antonis Remos

Antonis Remos (Αντώνης Ρέμος,; born Antonios Paschalidis, Αντώνιος Πασχαλίδης; 19 June 1970) is a Greek singer.

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Aris Kalaizis

Aris Kalaizis (Άρης Καλαϊζής., born 1966 in Leipzig) is a figurative Greek-German painter. Greeks in Germany and Aris Kalaizis are German people of Greek descent.

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Artemis Gounaki

Artemis Gounaki (Greek Άρτεμις Γουνάκη; born 7 April 1967 in Munich) is a Greek-German singer, vocal coach, songwriter, composer, and arranger who has done much of her work in Greek. Greeks in Germany and Artemis Gounaki are German people of Greek descent.

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Augsburg

Augsburg (label) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich.

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Aziz Retzep

Aziz Retzep (born 18 January 1992) is a German-Greek footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for TSG Dülmen. Greeks in Germany and Aziz Retzep are German people of Greek descent.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bielefeld

Bielefeld is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Constantin Carathéodory

Constantin Carathéodory (Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. Greeks in Germany and Constantin Carathéodory are German people of Greek descent.

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Costa Cordalis

Costa Cordalis (Κώστας Κορδαλής; born Konstantinos Cordalis; 1 May 19442 July 2019) was a Greek-German Schlager singer.

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Daniela Amavia

Daniela Amavia (Ντανιέλα Αμαβία) (born 4 March 1966), also credited as Daniela Elle and Daniela Lunkewitz, is an actress and model, appearing in numerous films and international fashion events. Greeks in Germany and Daniela Amavia are German people of Greek descent.

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Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany.

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Demis Nikolaidis

Themistoklis "Demis" Nikolaidis (Θεμιστοκλής "Ντέμης" Νικολαΐδης; born 17 September 1973) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. Greeks in Germany and Demis Nikolaidis are German people of Greek descent.

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Despina Vandi

Despina Malea (Δέσποινα Μαλέα; born 22 July 1969), known as Despina Vandi (Δέσποινα Βανδή), is a Greek singer.

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm; Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany.

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Duisburg

Duisburg (Duisborg) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Essen

Essen is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany.

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Evan K

Evangelos Koukoularis (born 27 May 1994), known professionally as Evan K, is a German-Greek guitarist. Greeks in Germany and Evan K are German people of Greek descent.

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Federal Statistical Office of Germany

The Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt, shortened Destatis) is a federal authority of Germany.

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Finite element method

The finite element method (FEM) is a popular method for numerically solving differential equations arising in engineering and mathematical modeling.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Frankfurt Rhine-Main

The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: Rhein-Main-Gebiet or Frankfurt/Rhein-Main, abbreviated FRM), is the second-largest metropolitan region in Germany after Rhine-Ruhr, with a total population exceeding 5.8 million.

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Georgios Donis

Georgios Donis (Γεώργιος Δώνης; born 22 October 1969) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and currently the manager of Saudi Pro League club Al-Khaleej. Greeks in Germany and Georgios Donis are German people of Greek descent.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Germany–Greece relations

Greece has an embassy in Berlin and five General Consulates in Hamburg, Munich, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War (translit) took place from 1946 to 1949.

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Greek diaspora

The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Omogéneia), are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Greek Muslims

Greek Muslims, also known as Grecophone Muslims, are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin whose adoption of Islam (and often the Turkish language and identity) dates to the period of Ottoman rule in the southern Balkans.

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Greek Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hanover

Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Immigration to Germany

Immigration to Germany, both in the country's modern borders and the many political entities that preceded it, has occurred throughout the country's history.

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Ioannis Masmanidis

Ioannis Masmanidis (Γιάννης Μασμανίδης, born 9 March 1983) is a Greek-German retired footballer. Greeks in Germany and Ioannis Masmanidis are German people of Greek descent.

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John Argyris

Johann Hadji Argyris FRS (Greek: Ιωάννης Χατζι Αργύρης; 19 August 1913 – 2 April 2004) was a Greek pioneer of computer applications in science and engineering,Hughes TJR, Oden JT, and Papadrakakis M (2011) John H Argyris, Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, 15, 24–31.

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Jonas Kyratzes

Jonas Kyratzes is a German-Greek video game designer and author of video game industry related articles. Greeks in Germany and Jonas Kyratzes are German people of Greek descent.

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Joseph Pilates

Joseph Hubertus Pilates (9 December 1883 – 9 October 1967) was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor.

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Katsimihas Brothers

Haris and Panos Katsimihas (Greek: Χάρης/Πάνος Κατσιμίχας), also known as the Katsimihas brothers (Αδελφοί Κατσιμίχα; Κατσιμίχα is the genitive case of Κατσιμίχας) or Katsimiheoi (Κατσιμιχαίοι) (born in Athens, 19 October 1952), are two Greek singer songwriters, who for the greatest part of their music career, performed as a duet.

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Kostas Mitroglou

Konstantinos "Kostas" Mitroglou (Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Μήτρογλου,; born 12 March 1988) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker.

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Krefeld

Krefeld (Krieëvel), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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LaFee

Christina Klein (born 9 December 1990), better known by her stage name LaFee, is a German pop singer and television actress who has sold more than one million records worldwide. Greeks in Germany and LaFee are German people of Greek descent.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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Linda Zervakis

Linda Zervakis (Λίντα Ζερβάκη; born 25 July 1975 in Hamburg) is a German-Greek television presenter as well as newsreader and journalist. Greeks in Germany and Linda Zervakis are German people of Greek descent.

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List of kings of Greece

The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach from 1832 to 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924 and, after being temporarily abolished in favor of the Second Hellenic Republic, again from 1935 to 1973, when it was once more abolished and replaced by the Third Hellenic Republic.

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Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (meaning "Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine (Upper Rhine), opposite Mannheim.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Mannem or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of 311,831 inhabitants.

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Melina Aslanidou

Melina Aslanidou (Μελίνα Ασλανίδου; born 28 August 1974) is a Greek singer.

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Miltiades Caridis

Miltiades Caridis (Μιλτιάδης Καρύδης; 9 May 1923 – 1 March 1998) was a German-Greek conductor. Greeks in Germany and Miltiades Caridis are German people of Greek descent.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Nationalities Papers

Nationalities Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press for the Association for the Study of Nationalities.

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.

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Odysseas Vlachodimos

Odysseas Vlachodimos (Greek: Οδυσσέας Βλαχοδήμος, born 26 April 1994) is a professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for club Newcastle United. Greeks in Germany and Odysseas Vlachodimos are German people of Greek descent.

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Offenbach am Main

Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main.

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Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor

Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red, was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983.

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Otto of Greece

Otto (1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Panagiotis Vlachodimos

Panagiotis Vlachodimos (Greek: Παναγιώτης Βλαχοδήμος; born 12 October 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger. Greeks in Germany and Panagiotis Vlachodimos are German people of Greek descent.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Shindy

Michael Schindler (born 7 September 1988), better known by his stage name Shindy, is a German rapper. Greeks in Germany and Shindy are German people of Greek descent.

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Soul Kitchen (film)

Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German comedy film directed by Fatih Akın, with a screenplay by Akın and Adam Bousdoukos, based on Bousdoukos' story on his own experiences as the owner of a Greek tavern named "Taverna", where Akın was a regular customer.

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Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Susan Sideropoulos

Susan Sideropoulos (born 14 October 1980 in Hamburg) is a German actress and TV personality. Greeks in Germany and Susan Sideropoulos are German people of Greek descent.

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Tagesschau (German TV programme)

Tagesschau (German for Review of the Day) is a German national and international television news service produced by the editorial staff of ARD-aktuell on behalf of the German public-service television network ARD.

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Theophanu

Theophanu (also Theophania, Theophana, or Theophano; Medieval Greek Θεοφανώ; AD 955 15 June 991) was empress of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage to Emperor Otto II, and regent of the Empire during the minority of their son, Emperor Otto III, from 983 until her death in 991.

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Vicky Leandros

Vasiliki Papathanasiou (Βασιλική Παπαθανασίου,; born 23 August 1949), generally known as Vicky Leandros (ΒίκυΛέανδρος), is a Greek singer living in Germany.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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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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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Germany

Also known as History of the Greeks in Germany.

, Leipzig, Linda Zervakis, List of kings of Greece, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Melina Aslanidou, Miltiades Caridis, Munich, Nationalities Papers, North Rhine-Westphalia, Nuremberg, Odysseas Vlachodimos, Offenbach am Main, Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto of Greece, Ottoman Empire, Panagiotis Vlachodimos, Roman Empire, Shindy, Soul Kitchen (film), Stuttgart, Susan Sideropoulos, Tagesschau (German TV programme), Theophanu, Vicky Leandros, West Germany, Western Thrace, Wiesbaden, World War II, Wuppertal.

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See also

Germany–Greece relations

Greek diaspora by country

References