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Praktiker AG was a German hardware store chain which operated in Europe. It was based in Hamburg and opened its first store in 1978 in Luxembourg under the name bâtiself. Initially owned by ASKO, the chain became a division of Metro AG after the merger of ASKO with Metro Cash & Carry in 1995. It was spun off under the name Praktiker Holding in ...
The transmission of the Greek Classics to Latin Western Europe during the Middle Ages was a key factor in the development of intellectual life in Western Europe. [1] Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages, but as traffic to the East increased, so did Western scholarship.
Praktikertjänst Aktiebolag is a Swedish company, specialising in health and dental care . The business idea has a cooperative framework, which means that every individual who wants to purchase shares in the company has to be the head of a clinic in the concern. Most of the administration and quality assurance, support and advisory is done ...
The conventions for writing and romanizing Ancient Greek and Modern Greek differ markedly. The sound of the English letter B ( /b/) was written as β in ancient Greek but is now written as the digraph μπ, while the modern β sounds like the English letter V ( /v/) instead. The Greek name Ἰωάννης became Johannes in Latin and then John ...
The " Hymn to Liberty ", or " Hymn to Freedom " ( Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, [a] also Ὕμνος πρὸς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν ), [b] is a poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas and it is used as the national anthem of Greece and Cyprus. It was set to music by Nikolaos ...
The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks.The ancient and modern name of the country is Hellas or Hellada (Greek: Ελλάς, Ελλάδα; in polytonic: Ἑλλάς, Ἑλλάδα), and its official name is the Hellenic Republic, Helliniki Dimokratia (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ...
Tektōn. The Ancient Greek noun tektōn ( τέκτων) is a common term for an artisan/craftsman, in particular a carpenter, woodworker, or builder. The term is frequently contrasted with an ironworker, or smith ( χαλκεύς) and stone-worker or mason ( λιθολόγος, λαξευτής ). [1]
Greeklish. Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika / Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is the Greek language written using the Latin script. Unlike standardized systems of Romanization of Greek, as used internationally for purposes such as rendering Greek proper names or place ...