

These settlers were farmers in Germany, primarily as northern Greece contributed to agriculture than elsewhere in the region, and lived in one-bedroom stone house with a roof made of wood and clay-Daubing. In Cyclades, houses and temples were made of stone and people lived in fishing and commerce. You agree to abide by all applicable anti-guidelines prohibit corruption laws, including laws such as illegal payments to anyone for a corrupt purpose in relation to these circumstances. PAOK lost in the semifinal game to the then defending Italian League champions Benetton Treviso, which was led by the Croatian star Toni Kuko, by a score of 7977.You may stop using the Services at any time but still use or subscribe to a Service after the entry into force of any change in terms or the terms you accept the changed circumstances. In that season, the club competed in Europes premier club basketball competition, the FIBA European League (now called EuroLeague ), which marked the clubs first appearance in the top-tier level European league. The same year, PAOK won the Greek League championship, by beating Aris in the leagues final four mini stage, and then Olympiacos in the playoffs finals. He was often compared to the great Nikos Galis, who was at the time the captain of Aris.ĭuring the 1980s decade, PAOK was second in the Greek League only to Aris. PAOK won the Greek Cup by four points (7470), in what is now remembered as the final of the shaven heads. PAOKs head coach at that time, Faidon Matthaiou, in trying to boost his teams morale, ordered the players to completely shave their heads. In the following 198283 season, the team finished in second place behind Aris. The Athenians managed to scrape through to a two-point victory, despite the game being played in Alexandreio Melathron, which was PAOKs home arena at that time. The worst season of the club to date was in 197677, when PAOK avoided relegation, with a 6653 play-out win over Dimokritos. The team was crowned the Champions of Greece, with the following players Dapontes, Kyriakou, Oikonomou, Paschalis, Stalios, Kokkos, Theoridis, Angelidis, Stergiou, and Konstantinidis, and player-coach Iraklis Klagas.įour years later, the Greek League was reconstructed into a Nation-wide League, but PAOK was placed in the Second National Division, where they won an immediate league promotion to the first division the next year. The first honor for PAOKs basketball section was the win of the 195859 Greek League championship. He gave birth to the basketball department again, after World War II.Īfter the war, Alekos Alexiadis began to organize a basketball team from the children that played at the only basketball court in Thessaloniki. On the European-wide top-tier level, PAOK competed in the EuroLeague s concluding championship tournament, the Final Four, at the 1993 Athens EuroLeague Final Four, where they finished in third place. In addition, PAOK was the FIBA Saporta Cup Finals runner-up in both the 199196 seasons. They also won the now defunct European-wide third level competition, the FIBA Kora Cup, in the 199394 season. They won the now defunct European-wide secondary level competition, the FIBA Saporta Cup, in the 199091 season. The club has also won the top national Greek Cup competition three times, in the years 1984, 1995, and 1999. In the past, the club has won Greeces top-tier level Greek Basket League twice, in the years 19. The clubs home arena is the PAOK Sports Arena, which is an indoor arena with a seating capacity of 8,500 people.

Two days later, in the third-place game, PAOK defeated Spains Real Madrid Teka, which was led by the Lithuanian star Arvydas Sabonis and American Rickey Brown.

You may not redistribute, sell or place the content of this page on any other website or blog without written permission from the author Mandy Barrow. The first two letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and beta - have given us the word alphabet. We have a form of democracy in Britain, and this is a legacy of the Athenians and their assemblies and councils.

The major impact in our lives today are in the arts, in philosophy, and in science, math, literature and politics. Each state had its own laws, government and money but they shared the same language and religion.
