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The Areopagus (/ æriˈɒpəɡəs /) is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Its English name is the Late Latin composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos, translated "Hill of Ares " (Ancient Greek: Ἄρειος Πάγος). The name Areopagus also referred, in classical times, to the Athenian ...
The Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Greek: Άρειος Πάγος, Areios Pagos, "Areopagus") is the supreme court of Greece for civil and criminal law. In Greece, the decisions of the Supreme Court are final. However, since Greece is a member state of the Council of Europe, cases ruled on by the Greek high court can be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. If the ...
The pedestrian walkway around the Acropolis, which passes through the rock of the Areios Pagos, also bears his name. Dionysius is the patron saint of the Gargaliani of Messenia, as well as in the village of Dionysi in the south of the prefecture of Heraklion.
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Idealized reconstruction of the Acropolis and Areios Pagos in Athens, Leo von Klenze, 1846. During subsequent years, the Acropolis was a site of bustling human activity with many Byzantine, Frankish, and Ottoman structures. The dominant feature during the Ottoman period was a mosque inside the Parthenon, complete with a minaret.
Namely, the Heliaia functioned as a court for litigation of public, criminal and private international law. [ε] Taking the jurisdiction over the so-called graphe paranomon, the Heliaia replaced the Areios Pagos in the execution of the legal control of the decisions of the ecclesia. Until Ephialtes' reforms the Areios Pagos had the duty of ...
Deyannis had been appointed to the high court of Areios Pagos during the junta years. [13][1] The mandate of the trial was to examine the events surrounding the 21 April 1967 coup, for which Papadopoulos and over twenty other co-defendants were charged with acts of high treason and mutiny. [1]
September 21, 2009: The Areios Pagos announced the parties participating in the elections. 5 of the 28 applications were rejected; namely: "Ecologists Greece – Konstantinos Papanikolas – Political Catharsis", "Hellenic Direct Democracy Movement" (Ελληνικό Κίνημα Άμεσης Δημοκρατίας - Giorgos Kokkas), "New Greek ...