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Kotsovolos (Greek: Κωτσόβολος) is one of the leading electrical and electronics retailers in Greece.It started in a small neighborhood store downtown Athens in 1950 [2] and today has a network of over 90 stores, [2] in Greece and Cyprus, both corporate and franchise, as well as two online stores, kotsovolos.gr and kotsovolos.cy.
K. Kotsovolos. Categories: Retail companies by country. Retail companies of Europe by country. Companies of Greece by industry. Retailing in Greece.
Thessaloniki was the 2014 European Youth Capital. The city's main university, Aristotle University, is the largest in Greece and the Balkans. [13] The city was founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon, who named it after his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander the Great.
The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (Greek: Η Κατοχή, romanized:I Katochi, lit. 'the occupation') began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded the Kingdom of Greece in order to assist its ally, Italy, in their ongoing war that was initiated in October 1940, having encountered major strategical difficulties.
INTERSPORT International Corporation ("IIC"), commonly known as INTERSPORT, is an international sporting goods retailer with its headquarters based in Bern, Switzerland. IIC is the purchasing and brand management company of the INTERSPORT group and is considered one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the world. [3]
Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Buy Nothing Day. Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes ...
Greece has received many illegal immigrants beginning in the 1990s and continuing during the 2000s and 2010s. Migrants make use of the many islands in the Aegean Sea , directly west of Turkey. A spokesman for the European Union 's border control agency said that the Greek-Albanian border is "one of Europe's worst-affected external land borders."
Public holidays in Greece. According to Greek law every Sunday of the year is a public holiday. In addition, there are nine mandatory, official public holidays: New Year's Day, 6 January, 25 March, Orthodox Easter Monday, 1 May, 15 August, 28 October, 25 December and 26 December. [1] There are, however, more public holidays celebrated in Greece ...