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IOA
IOA is a three-letter acronym for Individual Olympic Athlete. Individual athletes from East Timor competed under the Olympic Flag at the 2000 Games, during the United Nations Transitional Administration. ..
Ioachim Chronicle
Ioachim Chronicle (also Joachim, Ioakim Chronicle) is a chronicle discovered by Vasily Tatishchev in 18th century. The chronicle is believed to be a 17th century compilation of earlier sources. It describes the events before 10th century on the territories where Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus late..
Ioamnet Quintero
Ioamnet Quintero (born September 8, 1972) is a former high jumper from Cuba who competed in the women's high jump contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. She won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. External references IAAF profile for [Ioamnet Qui..
Ioana Olteanu
Ioana Olteanu (born 25 February, 1966) is a Romanian rower who has won three Olympic medals in the eights competition. External link [databaseOlympic.com] ..
Ioane Bagrationi
Ioane Bagrationi (16 May, 1768, Tbilisi, Georgia, – 15 February, 1830, St Petersburg, Russia) was a Georgian prince (batonishvili), writer and encyclopedist. A son of George XII, the last king of Kartl-Kakheti kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wife Ketevan Andronikashvili, Ioane commanded ..
Ioanid Gang
The Ioanid Gang was a group in Communist Romania named after two of its leaders, Alexandru and Paul Ioanids. In 1959 they allegedly organized the most famous bank robbery in any Communist state. Contents 1 Timeline of the Case2 1960 Propaganda Film3 Controversy Surrounding the Case..
Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula
Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula (Poluostrov Yoan Pavel II \po-lu-'os-trov yo-'an 'pa-vel 'vto-ri\) is an ice-covered peninsula on the north coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica that is bounded by Hero Bay to the east and Barclay Bay to the west. It extends 12.8 km in length and is 8.5 km wide. Its nor..
Ioannes Sommerus
Ioannes Sommerus (Latin version of Johann Sommer; 1542-1574) was a Transylvanian Saxon Protestant theologian and Despot Vodă's biographer. Born in Pirna, Sommerus came to Moldavia as a member of Despot Vodă's retinue, becoming the main figure in the short-lived College of Cotnari (1562-1563). Aft..
Ioannina
Ioannina (Greek: Ιωάννινα, often Γιάννενα /yanena/ or Γιάννινα /yanina/; anglicized to Yanina or Janina, is a city in Epirus, north-western Greece, with a population of approximately 100,000 including suburbs. It lies at an elevation of 600 metres above sea level. It is the..
Ioannina compromise
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Ioannina National Airport
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Ioannina Prefecture
Ioannina (Greek: Ιωάννινα) is a prefecture of Greece, part of the north-western periphery of Epirus. Its capital is the city of Ioannina. It is bordered by Albania in the north, Kastoria in the northeast, Grevena in the east, the prefecture of Trikala in the east, Arta in the southeast, Pre..
Ioannina Wireless Network
Ioannina Wireless Network is a non-profit wireless network based in Ioannina, Greece. Its primary goal is to interconnect interested parties using wireless technology (of IEEE 802.11b standard mostly), promoting the free diffusion of knowledge and the spirit of cooperation. At the moment, there are ..
Ioannis Alevras
Ioannis Alevras (1912-1995) was a socialist politician who served as Chairman of the Greek Parliament. He had defended Andreas Papandreou during his trial in the Aspida affair and had been in jail during the years of the military dictatorship for resisting it. After President Constantine Karamanlis ..
Ioannis Anastassakis
--> Ioannis Anastassakis is one of the most recognizable greek guitarists internationally, with rich artistic, compositional, educational, and written work. His main interests lie in flamenco, rock and fusion guitar. Contents 1 Biography2 Performances3 Discography and Books4&nb..
Ioannis Chrysafis
Ioannis Chrysafis (1873 - October 12, 1932) was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Chrysafis was the team leader of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving the members of the team bronze medals. ..
Ioannis Fourakis
Ioannis Fourakis was born in 1937 in the Village of Drapania, in Chania, Crete. After finishing elementary school he tries an exam in order to be accepted at the highschool of Kissamos, but he fails. After this failure, being 13 years old he leaves his village and goes to Athens, where he works as..
Ioannis G. Tsatsaris
Ioannis G. Tsatsaris (born 1934 in Daphnoula) is a Greek writer. He has written many books on the paranormal and the nature of spirituality, including True stories of para-natural phenomena from Mount Pindos; The Revelation after Ioannis; The Next Step of Creation — The Revelation; and Man on..
Ioannis Galidakis
Ioannis N. Galidakis (born 1964) is a Greek mathematician, programmer, lab spectroscopist and amateur baroque composer. In mathematics he has worked in the areas of Complex and Real analysis. In programming, he has worked both as an independent contractor and under Apple Computer in Greece localizin..
Ioannis Georgiadis
Ioannis Georgiadis (April 24, 1876 - 1960) was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Georgiadis competed in the men's sabre event. In the five-man, round-robin tournament, Georgiadis won all four of his matches. He defeated Georgios Iatridis, Adolf Schmal, Telemach..
Ioannis Gklavakis
Ioannis Gklavakis (born on 10 October 1949 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament with the New Democracy, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and its Committee on Fisheries. ..
Ioannis Kakridis
Ioannis Kakridis (Greek: Ιωάννης Κακριδής) (1901-1992) was a Greek classical scholar. He was born in Athens in 1901 and received his PhD at the University of Athens. He went on to become a professor at the universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Tübingen, Stockholm, Lund and Uppsala. ..
Ioannis Kalitzakis
Ioannis Kalitzakis (born 1966) is a retired Greek football defender. He started his career in Panelefsiniakos, where he played three and a half season before eventually joining Panathinaikos. He stayed with them until 1997, when he joined AEK Athens FC. He retired from professional football in 2001..
Ioannis Kasoulides
Ioannis Kasoulides (born August 10 1948 in Nicosia) is a Cypriot politician, was one of the leading officials of the right-wing Democratic Rally party and served as Foreign minister in the Glafcos Clerides government from 1997 until 2003. In June 2004, he has been elected Member of the European Par..
Ioannis Kolettis
Ioannis Kolettis (1773-1847) - Athens, National Historical Museum Ioannis Kolettis (1773-1847) was a Greek politician of Vlach origin who played a significant role in Greek affairs from the Greek War of Independence through the early years of the Greek Kingdom. Contents 1 Early life2&n..
Ioannis Lavrentis
Ioannis Lavrentis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Lavrentis was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He was one of the seven runners that dropped out of the race. ..
Ioannis Makrygiannis
General Ioannis Makrygiannis (1797-1864) was a Greek officer. He fought in numerous engagements of the Greek War of Independence with considerable success. Following Greek independence, he had a tumultuous public career, including a death sentence, and a leading role in the granting of the first..
Ioannis Malokinis
Ioannis Malokinis (1880 - 1942) was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Malokinis competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed first of three swimmers, with a time of 2:20.4. This time was nearly a minute slower than the mark of 1:22.2 set b..
Ioannis Masmanidis
Ioannis Masmanidis (born 9 March 1983) is a German footballer, joined Arminia Bielefeld during the winter transfer period 2005/06 from Karlsruher SC. He usually plays on the left side of attack or midfield. Also plays for the German U-21 national team. He represented Germany Under-20 team at the 20..
Ioannis Matzourakis
Greek manager and former footballer. Currently employed by Skoda Xanthi. ..
Ioannis Metaxas
Ioannis Metaxas Ioannis Metaxas (Greek Ιωάννης Μεταξάς, April 12, 1871 – January 29, 1941) was a Greek General and the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death. Born in Ithaca, Metaxas was a career military officer, first seeing action in 1897 fighting the Turki..
Ioannis Mitropoulos
Ioannis Mitropoulos (1874 -?) was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Ioannis Mitropoulos Mitropoulos competed in both the individual and team events of the parallel bars, and the individual rings event. In the rings event, he gave Greece its first gold me..
Ioannis Okkas
Ioannis Okkas (born February 11, 1977 in Larnaca, Cyprus) is a football striker who currently plays for Olympiacos in the Greek Championship. He also plays for the Cyprus national football team. Talented, speedy forward, Ioannis Okkas possesses excellent dribbling skills. Although he is not very tal..
Ioannis Paleokrassas
Ioannis Paleokrassas is a politician who was Greek Finance Minister and a European Communities Commissioner in the Delors Commission. On July 14, 1992 Paleokassas's car was the objective of a rocket attack in Central Athens. The attack missed its target, but killed a passer-by1. Reference Note 1: ..
Ioannis Persakis
Ioannis Persakis Ioannis Persakis (1877 - 1943) was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Persakis competed in the triple jump, taking third place. His best jump was 12.52 metres. ..
Ioannis Phrangoudis
Ioannis Phrangoudis (born in Limassol, Cyprus) was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Phrangoudis competed in four of the five shooting events as well as serving as secretary of the Sub-Committee for Shooting. He began his sole rifle event, the free rifle, with ..
Ioannis Poulos
Ioannis Poulos was a Greece fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Poulos competed in the amateur foil event. He placed fourth of four in his preliminary group after losing all of his bouts, to Henri Callot, Henri Delaborde, and Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis. This put him ..
Ioannis Psycharis
Ioannis (or Yannis) Psycharis (Greek Ιωάννης (Γιάννης) Ψυχάρης, French Jean Psychari, 1854-1929) was a philologist, author and promoter of Demotic Greek. Psycharis was born to a Greek family in Odessa, Ukraine, Imperial Russia on the coast of the Black Sea. Nicholas I of Russia..
Ioannis Rallis
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Ioannis Rallis (1878-1946) was the third Nazi collaborator prime minister of Greece, from 7 April 1943 to 12 October 1944, succeeding Konstantinos Logothetopoulos in the Nazi-held puppet government in Athens. Contents 1 Early life2 Political career3&nb..
Ioannis Sofianopoulos
Ioannis Sofianopoulos (1887–?) was a Greek politician and leader of the Agrarian Party Born in Sopoto, Kalavryta, to the lawyer Andreas Sofianopoulos and Athena Papagheorghiou, he was elected a member of parliament for the Serres constituency in the 1933 Greek elections. Publications Economica..
Ioannis Theodoropoulos
Ioannis Theodoropoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Theodoropoulos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Evangelos Damaskos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres. ..
Ioannis Theofilakis
Ioannis Theofilakis (born 1879, date of death unknown) was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens in the two rifle events. In the military rifle, he was placed ninth with a score of 1,261. In the second string of 10 shots, he scored 312. His score and place in the..
Ioannis Varvakis
Ioannis Varvakis (1745-1825), also known as Ivan Andreevich Varvatsi (Greek: ); (Russian: ) was distinguished member of the Russian and Greek communities and a benefactor of the places where he lived. His real name was Leontidis. Born on the Greek island of Psara, Varvakis was a Greek orthodox wh..
Ioannis Varvitsiotis
Ioannis Varvitsiotis (b. August 2, 1933 in Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party. ..
Ioannis Vourakis
Ioannis Vourakis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Vourakis competed in the free rifle event. He did not finish the competition. ..
Ioannis Vrettos
Ioannis Vrettos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Vrettos was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished fourth of the nine athletes to have completed the race. ..
Ioann of Kronstadt
Saint Ioann of Kronstadt (October 19, 1829, Sura, Arkhangelsk - December 20, 1908, Kronstadt), was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and member of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born as Ivan Ilyich Sergiyev in 1829. From 1855, he worked as a priest in Saint Andew's cathedral in Kro..
Ioan Andone
Ioan Andone (born 15 March 1960) is a Romanian football coach and former player. He was born in Spălnaca, and made his Divizia A debut with Corvinul Hunedoara in 1979. He later went to Dinamo Bucureşti where he helped win the league title in 1984 and 1990 and the cup title in 1984, 1986 and 1990...
Ioan Cantacuzino
Ioan Cantacuzino (1863-1934) was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist. External links [Ioan Cantacuzino] ..
Ioan Condruc
Ioan Condruc (born April 19, 1951) is a former Romanian football player, who played for FC Baia Mare, UT Arad and U Cluj. Condruc was the team captain during the FC Baia Mare golden period between 1977 and 1981 ..
Ioan Evans
Ioan Lyonel Evans (July 1927 – 10 February 1984) was a British politician. Evans was educated at Llanelly Grammar School and Swansea University College. He served on the West Bromwich education committee and acted as Labour Party agent for the general elections in 1955 and 1959 in Birmingham Smal..
Ioan Flueraş
Ioan Flueraş or Fluieraş (November 2, 1882—1952) was a Romanian social democratic politician and a victim of the communist regime. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early activities1.2 Transylvanian politics1.3 Inter-war Romania1.4 After World War II2 References Biogr..
Ioan Gheorghe Caragea
Ioan Gheorghe Caragea was a phanariot hospodar of Wallachia (reigned 1812-1818). He became famous due to the Bubonic plague epidemic that started in 1813, one year after the beginning of his reign. In 1812, his nephew, Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos was a guest at his court, with whom he passed in..
Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd Ioan Gruffudd (pronounced /ˈjoɑn ˈgrɪfɪð/) (born October 6, 1973 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales) is a Welsh actor. His parents, Peter and Gillian Gruffudd, were teachers. He has two siblings – a brother, Alun, who is two years younger, and a sister, Siwan, who is seven..
Ioan Iacob Heraclid
Despot Vodă Ioan Iacob Heraclid / Ioan Iacob Eraclid (also known as Jacob Heraclides; 1511 on Crete or Samos - 1563, Suceava) was a Greek soldier and ruler of Moldavia from November 1561 to November 1563, most notable for being the first officially Protestant monarch in Eastern Europe. Co..
Ioan James
Ioan Mackenzie James (born May 23, 1928) is a British mathematician working in the field of topology particularly in homotopy theory. He is a fellow of the Royal Society. He received his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1953. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford University from 1970 t..
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
--> Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (born April 16, 1951) is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer. Contents 1 Childhood2 Study3 Artistic and literary activity4 Affiliation5 Literar..
Ioan Mirea
Ioan Mirea (1912-1987) was a Romanian painter and graphic artist. External Links [Biography (in Romanian)] ..
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău
Ioan Ovidiu SABĂU, extraordinary romanian player (central and right midfielder) from 1985 to 2003, is now the Gloria Bistriţa coach. Place and date of birth: Câmpia-Turzii - 12 February 1968 CAREER 1985-1986 Universitatea Cluj 7A 8 1 1986-1987 Universitatea Cluj 10A 21 3 1987-1988 Universit..
Ioan P. Culianu
Ioan Petru Culianu (Couliano) (January 5 1950–May 21 1991) was a Romanian-born professor of divinity at the University of Chicago and an expert in gnosticism and Mediaeval magic. Born in Iaşi, he studied in Bucharest, then traveled to Italy, France and the Netherlands, before he finally beca..
Ioan Potcoavă
Ioan Potcoavă (or Ivan Pidkova - Іван Підкова in Ukrainian; also known as Ioan Sarpega, Ioan Creţul, and allegedly baptized as Nicoară Potcoavă; d. June 16 1578) was a Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks (1577 - 1578; possibly the first one in history to be elected by the entire Zaporizhia..
Ioan Puşcaş
Ioan Puşcaş is a gastroenterologist, born in Şimleu Silvaniei, Romania. In the 1970s, he proposed the use of carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitor acetazolamide to heal peptic ulcers. ..
Ioan Sabău
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău (born 12 February 1968) is a Romanian football midfielder, who was born in Câmpia-Turzii and debuted in Divizia A with U Cluj in 1986. He later won the league title with Dinamo Bucureşti in 1990, before he played several seasons in the Netherlands and Italy. Upon returning to ..
Ioan Silviu Suciu
Ioan Silviu Suciu (born November 24, 1977 in Sibiu) is a gymnast from Romania, who competes on the pommel horse and floor exercise. One of his closest rivals is countryman Marius Urzică, who was beaten by Suciu in Ljubljana, 2004, when the latter won the title while Urzică took 8th place. Suciu..
Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici Ioan Slavici (January 18, 1848 – August 17, 1925) was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. Contents 1 Early life2 ''Junimea''3 Prisons and return to Romania4 World War I and later years5 Anti-semitism6 References7 Externa..
Ioan Sturdza
Ioan Sturdza (Ioan Sandu Sturdza or Ioniţă Sandu Sturdza; his first name may be given as John) was a Prince of Moldavia (June 21, 1822-May 5, 1828) and the most famous descendant of Alexandru Sturdza. He is considered the first indigenous ruler with the end of Phanariote rule (as a move the Ottoma..
Ioan Talpeş
Ioan Talpeş (born 24 August, 1944) is a Romanian general and politician. --> Talpeş served as head of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) from 1992 to 1997. In 1997-8, Talpeş served as Ambassador to Bulgaria and acted as an advisor to President Ion Iliescu from 1999 to 2000. He is c..
Ioan Ţepelea
Ioan Ţepelea is the current president of the international Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts (ASLA), based in Oradea, Romania. Ţepelea was born in 3 June 1949, in the village of Beznea, near Bratca, Bihor, Romania. He studied history and philosophy at Cluj-Napoca and has to date written ma..
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