Nikolaos Martis
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Nicolas K. Martis is a former Greek politician. He was born in the village of Moustheni
in Kavala Prefecture
.
He studied Law at the University of Thessaloniki and has been a practising lawyer in Kavala and since 1961 in Athens
.
He took part in the battle along the Macedonian fortified positions during the German invasion of 1941. He escaped almost immediately to the Near East and he took part in the battles of El Alamein
(Africa
) and Rimini
(Italy
), and in the battle of Athens (December 1944).
He was elected Member of Parliament
seven times and he served as Secretary General in the Ministry for Northern Greece (1955–1956), Assistant Minister (Undersecretary) of the Ministry of Commerce (1956–1958), Minister of Industry (1958–1961), Minister for Northern Greece (1974–1981).
Nicolas Martis is the author of the "The falsification of Macedonian History", a book which has been awarded an Athens Academy award and has been translated into seven languages (English
, French
, German
, Italian
, Russian
, Polish
and Spanish
).
Pangaio
Pangaio is a municipality in the Kavala peripheral unit, Greece, named after the Pangaion hills. The seat of the municipality is in Eleftheroupoli.-Municipality:...
in Kavala Prefecture
Kavala Prefecture
Kavala is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its capital is the town of Kavala. Kavala regional unit is the easternmost within the geographical region of Macedonia.-Geography:...
.
He studied Law at the University of Thessaloniki and has been a practising lawyer in Kavala and since 1961 in Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
.
He took part in the battle along the Macedonian fortified positions during the German invasion of 1941. He escaped almost immediately to the Near East and he took part in the battles of El Alamein
El Alamein
El Alamein is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt. Located on the Mediterranean Sea, it lies west of Alexandria and northwest of Cairo. As of 2007, it has a local population of 7,397 inhabitants.- Climate :...
(Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
) and Rimini
Rimini
Rimini is a medium-sized city of 142,579 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa...
(Italy
Italy
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), and in the battle of Athens (December 1944).
He was elected Member of Parliament
Hellenic Parliament
The Hellenic Parliament , also the Parliament of the Hellenes, is the Parliament of Greece, located in the Parliament House , overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece....
seven times and he served as Secretary General in the Ministry for Northern Greece (1955–1956), Assistant Minister (Undersecretary) of the Ministry of Commerce (1956–1958), Minister of Industry (1958–1961), Minister for Northern Greece (1974–1981).
Nicolas Martis is the author of the "The falsification of Macedonian History", a book which has been awarded an Athens Academy award and has been translated into seven languages (English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, French
French language
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, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Russian
Russian language
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, Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
).