Mangas, the Glossary
Manges (Greek: μάγκες; sing.: mangas, μάγκας) is the name of a social group in the Belle Époque era's counterculture of Greece (especially of the great urban centers of Athens and Piraeus).[1]
Table of Contents
20 relations: Babiniotis Dictionary, Belle Époque, Counterculture, Dude, Georgios Babiniotis, Grammatical number, Greek language, Karagiozis, Kottabos, Laïko, Manolis Triantafyllidis, Piraeus, Rebetes, Rebetiko, Shadow play, Spiv, Triantafyllidis Dictionary, Wide boy, Working class, Worry beads.
- Working class in Europe
Babiniotis Dictionary
The Dictionary of Modern Greek (Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, ΛΝΕΓ), more commonly known as Babiniotis Dictionary (Λεξικό Μπαμπινιώτη), is a well-known dictionary of Modern Greek published in Greece by Lexicology Centre and supervised by Greek linguist Georgios Babiniotis.
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Belle Époque
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.
Dude
Dude is American slang for an individual, typically male.
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Georgios Babiniotis
Georgios Babiniotis (Γεώργιος Μπαμπινιώτης,; born 6 January 1939) is a Greek linguist and philologist and former Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of Greece.
See Mangas and Georgios Babiniotis
Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").
See Mangas and Grammatical number
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.
Karagiozis
Karagiozis or Karaghiozis (Καραγκιόζης, Karagöz) is a shadow puppet and fictional character of Greek folklore, originating in the Turkish shadow play Karagöz and Hacivat.
Kottabos
Kottabos (κότταβος) was a game of skill played at Ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
Laïko
Laïko or laïkó (tragoúdi,; " of the people", "popular "; tragoúdia|label.
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Manolis Triantafyllidis
Manolis A. Triantafyllidis (Μανόλης Α.; Athens, 15 November 1883 – Athens, 20 April 1959) was a major representative of the demotic movement in education in Greece.
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Piraeus
Piraeus (Πειραιάς; Πειραιεύς; Ancient:, Katharevousa) is a port city within the Athens-Piraeus urban area, in the Attica region of Greece.
Rebetes
A rebetis (Greek: ρεμπέτης; pl. rebetes ρεμπέτες) is a musician involved in the scene of the Greek musical genre of rebetiko, which flourished between 1920 and 1955.
Rebetiko
Rebetiko (ρεμπέτικο), plural rebetika (ρεμπέτικα), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process of musical syncretism and developed into a more distinctive musical genre.
Shadow play
Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim.
Spiv
In the United Kingdom, a spiv is a petty criminal who deals in illicit, typically black market, goods.
See Mangas and Spiv
Triantafyllidis Dictionary
The Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek (Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής) is a monolingual dictionary of Modern Greek published by the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation) (named after Manolis Triantafyllidis), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1998.
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Wide boy
Wide boy is a British term for a man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing.
Working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.
Worry beads
Worry beads or komboloi/kompoloi (κομπολόι,, 'bead collection'; plural: κομπολόγια) is a string of beads manipulated with one or two hands and used to pass time in Greek and Cypriot culture. Mangas and Worry beads are culture of Greece.
See also
Working class in Europe
- Østensjø
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Andreas Knapp
- Dienstmann
- Dizelaši
- Dresiarz
- Gopnik
- Grünerløkka
- Grisette (person)
- Harry (derogatory term)
- Kal and Ada
- Mangas
- Oosterparkbuurt (Amsterdam)
- Raggare
- San Cristóbal (Madrid)
- Soviet working class
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven
- Tokkie
- Worker-priest