mangasA type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
souvlakiA Greek fast food consisting of pieces of meat and sometimes vegetables grilled on a skewer, variously also called kalamaki or kebab or, in sandwich form, gyro or shawarma.
hylA unit of mass that is accelerated at a rate of 1 meter per second squared (1 m/s²) by a force of 1 kilogram-force, equivalent to 9.80665 kilograms.
Demotic GreekThe Modern Greek vernacular language. It became the official Modern Greek in 1976 when Katharevousa was replaced. Most Demotic words integrated in Standard Modern Greek, whereas others are rare or dialectal or literary.
DiakoptoA coastal town in Achaea, West Greece, Greece.
flogheraA Greek folk instrument of the end-blown flute family; a simple form of recorder.
GoudiRefers to a suburb of Athens, where significant events took place in Modern Greek history.
IoulianaThe events of July 1965, an important episode in modern Greek history concerning a disagreement between the Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and the King Constantine II that led to a constitutional crisis. The political instability of this crisis allowed a group of colonels, under the context of the Cold War, to stage a coup leading to the Greek Junta (1967-1974).
ipotaneA mythical creature depicted as a half-human, half-horse that is supposedly different from a centaur, sometimes attributed to Greek mythology.
KalamatianosA Greek folk dance from the Peloponnese.
KalavrytaA town and municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece.
KaliardaA cant used by the homosexual community in Greece, similar to Polari in Britain, in use since the 1940s. It uses a large amount of borrowings from French, Italian and Turkish. Once a secret language to evade the hostile community, it is now widely known thanks to television and thus not used much nowadays.
Kalo NeroA village in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.
KatakoloA small town on the sea in Elis, West Greece, Greece.
NoemvrianaNovember–December 1916, an important episode in modern Greek history concerning the entrance of Greece into World War I on the side of the Allies.
OmonoiaA neighbourhood in the centre of Athens, Greece.
opsignParticularly in Gilles Deleuze's cinematic philosophy, a pure optical image that exists independently of any immediate action or narrative progression. Deleuze introduced this concept to describe moments in cinema where the visual element stands alone, detached from the traditional cause-and-effect structure of storytelling.
sticherarionA hymnbook containing the stichera for the morning and evening services throughout the year.
sticheronA hymn, often written in cycles and sung in alternation with psalm verses, used in the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
syrtosA folk dance of classical and modern Greece.
taramosalataA Turkish and Greek dish of fish roe (carp or cod), lemon juice, breadcrumbs, onion, garlic, and olive oil; often served as a meze or with pitta bread.
tenturaa sweet Greek alcoholic spirit flavoured with cloves and cinnamon
Triadologythe discipline concerned with the Holy Trinity.
tsipouroA Greek alcoholic spirit distilled from marc or pomace, similar to grappa.
TurcocretanA Muslim inhabitant of Crete (until 1923), or one of their descendants.
typophoneA musical keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking tuned brass rods that are coupled to a spruce soundboard. It was a precursor to the celesta.
TziaOne of the Cyclades situated in front of Sunium
xinomavroA red wine grape variety from Macedonia in Greece.
xynisteriA white grape indigenous to the island of Cyprus.
ZografA surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.