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22 hours ago · It was recorded in a single day at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, in November 1984. "Do They Know It's Christmas" was released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1984. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number one and stayed there for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one. [3] It sold a million copies in the first week, making ...
- "Feed the World" (1984), "One Year On (Feed the World)" (1985)
- 3 December 1984
- 25-26 November 1984
- Sarm West Studios, London
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22 hours ago · Togo. The Asante Empire ( Asante Twi: Asanteman ), today commonly called the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day Ghana. [6] It expanded from the Ashanti Region to include most of Ghana and also parts of Ivory Coast and Togo. [7] [8] Due to the empire's military prowess, wealth, architecture ...
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- The Post-Byzantine Church of Saint Athanasius
- The Main Occupation of The Inhabitants
- The Architecture of The Village
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Metaxades is located in the northern part of the Evros regional unit, on the border with Bulgaria (Ivaylovgrad municipality). The river Erythropotamos flows through the municipal unit. Kyprinos lies to the north, and Didymoteicho to the east. The Greek National Road 53(Alexandroupoli – Mega Dereio – Kyprinos – Ormenio) runs through Metaxades.
The village during the Byzantine Empire
Near today's Metaxades, about two kilometers west of the village, was the old village called "Dogantzia" or "Dougantzia". Tradition has it that this was the site of the first settlement of the inhabitants of Metaxades, until 1285 when a cholera epidemic forced the inhabitants to leave the settlement, and later to look for a new place of settlement. This place was found near a young tree, a karagatsi (which was saved until a few years ago in the village square, but dried up because of the ceme...
The village during the Ottoman Empire
After the founding of the village there was a "black slavery" by the Turks from 1361 who occupied Thrace until 1878 when Russia occupied us for three years. The Turks invaded Didymoteicho and occupied it in 1361 after 12 years of siege. In the same year they occupied the area from Edirne to Plovdiv. Then Sultan Murad I plundered the Thracian land mercilessly and irreparably. And this is the beginning of martyrdom. The damage is moral and material. Churches and monasteries are destroyed, wealt...
The village during the Bulgarian occupation
On 28 September 1915, the Bulgarians, after occupying the area of Didymoteicho, after an agreement with the Turks, in exchange for the participation of Bulgaria in the First World War, arrived in the village and lived peacefully with the inhabitants for a year. But in September 1916 they begin to show their true face. They sought by all means the Bulgarisation of the region and in addition to the atrocities they committed, they carried out other actions: they brought teachers from Bulgaria, w...
The church of Saint Athanasius is an old Greek Orthodox church and cemetery and is located on the outskirts of the modern settlement and impresses with the humble architectural form of the dark years of Ottoman rule. It is an important religious monument for the inhabitants of the area, it opens its gate twice a year on the feast of Saint Athanasiu...
The main occupation of the inhabitants of the settlement is in agriculture, while a small number are engaged in the exploitation of forests and a few now in livestock, which has shown a declining trend in recent decades. There were historical periods when the settlement prospered and important arts developed, necessary for its survival, such as the...
The main building material, stone, performs primarily an insulating function and secondarily has an aesthetic character. The appearance of the house is simple, unpretentious and its shape is always rectangular. It is airy and bright due to the sufficient number of openings it holds. Its characteristic element is the simplicity and the lack of any d...
Important reasons for the decrease in the population of the settlement are the long distance from the main road and railway network and the administrative centers.
- Greece
- 68K
- 116 m (381 ft)
- East Macedonia and Thrace
