MadeinMycountry Thrace

Κοσμοσωτειρα

Το μεγαλοπρεπές ιδρυμα της Οικογένειας των Κομνηνών  ισάξιο των υπόλοιπων αυτοκρατορικών μονών της Οικογένειας.

Η Δυναστεία των Κομνηνών ήταν μία ισχυρή οικογένεια ευγενών από την Κόμνη της Θράκης, που κυβέρνησε τη Βυζαντινή αυτοκρατορία από 1081 έως το 1185. Ιστορική είναι η μέχρι σήμερα διατηρημένη Μονή Παναγίας Κοσμοσώτειρα, που ιδρύθηκε από τον σεβαστοκράτορα Ισαάκιο Κομνηνό στην τοποθεσία Βήρα (πρόκειται για τις σημερινές Φέρες του Έβρου), κοντά στο δέλτα του ποταμού Έβρου.

MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas).MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.
MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.

 Το ‘Τυπικόν Ισαακίου Αλεξίου Κομνηνού της Μονής Θεομήτορος της Κοσμοσώτειρας’ φωτίζει ακόμη, πτυχές της τοπικής μας ιστορίας.

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MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.



Προσφέρει όλη την περιουσία του, κινητή και ακίνητη, στο μοναστήρι της Βήρας, καθιστώντας το έτσι ιδιαίτερα εύπορο και στηρίζοντας οικονομικά την αυτονομία του. Απέραντες εκτάσεις καλλιεργημένης γης με τους οικισμούς τους στο νότιο τμήμα της βυζαντινής Θράκης – που περιλάμβανε και μεγάλο τμήμα της πόλης της Αίνου -, 12 ποταμόπλοια που έφεραν έσοδα στο μοναστήρι, το απόλυτο δικαίωμα διαχείρισης των ποταμών ‘Μαρίτζα’ και Σαμία, καθώς και το Μετόχι του Αγ. Στεφάνου του Αυρηλιανού στην Κωνσταντινούπολη, περνούν στην κατοχή της Μονής.

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MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.
MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.

Το Ιδρυμα ήταν μεγαλοπρεπές και ισάξιο των υπόλοιπων αυτοκρατορικών μονών της Οικογένειας των Κομνηνών ( Μονή της Χώρας Παντοκράτορος Χριστού). Ο κτήτορας Ισαάκιος Κομνηνός κατασκευάζει αρχικά το Καθολικό. Τις εργασίες παρακολουθεί ο ίδιος. Ο αρχιτεκτονικός του τύπος είναι σταυροειδής με τρούλο, σε μια – σπανιότατη – παραλλαγή του δικιονίου. Ο Γραμματικός του Μιχαήλ δίνει στο ναό την μεγαλοπρέπεια που του αρμόζει. Ο ναός , αν και μετρίου όγκου , γίνεται επιβλητικός χάρη στο εντυπωσιακό ύψος που του προσφέρει ο αρχιτέκτονας, μαζί με τον ιδιαίτερα μεγάλο τρούλο , τις σοφές αναλογίες των διαστάσεων, τη έλλειψη κιονοστοιχιών. Το έργο προκαλεί το θαυμασμό, όχι μόνο των συγχρόνων του, αλλά και των σημερινών μελετητών. Οι αγιογράφοι που φτάνουν από την Βασιλεύουσα αποτυπώνουν τη θεία ζωή της Παναγίας και του Χριστού με την αριστουργηματική τεχνοτροπία της Κωνσταντινουπολίτικης Σχολής. Από τις αγιογραφίες που σώζονται ως σήμερα, ξεχωρίζουν αυτές στο κέντρο του ναού. Πρόκειται για ανεπίγραφες αγιογραφίες τεσσάρων στρατιωτικών αγίων, που έχουν ταυτιστεί με πρόσωπα της οικογένειας των Κομνηνών , περιλαμβάνονται και του κτήτορα. Το αστραφτερό μάρμαρο του δαπέδου, των κιόνων, του τέμπλου καθώς και η επένδυση χρυσού φωτίζουν το εσωτερικό του ναού μαζί με το πλήθος των παραθύρων. Ο ναός της Παναγίας της Κοσμοσώτηρας γίνεται περίλαμπρος και ο κτήτορας αποτυπώνει στο Τυπικόν την εντολή, ως τέτοιος να διατηρείται ανά τους αιώνες.

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MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.
MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.



“Kosmosoteira” Byzantine Christian magnificent church:

The Foundation was magnificent and equal to the rest of the imperial monasteries of the Komnenian Family (Monastery of Chora Pantokratoros Christou). The founder Isaac Komnenos initially builds the Catholicon. He supervises the works himself. Its architectural type is cruciform with a dome, in a – very rare – variation of the dikionion. The Grammar of Michael gives the church the magnificence that befits it. The church, although of moderate volume, becomes imposing thanks to the impressive height that the architect offers it, along with the particularly large dome, the wise proportions of the dimensions, the lack of colonnades. The work arouses the admiration, not only of its contemporaries, but also of today’s scholars. The hagiographers who arrive from Vasilevousa depict the divine life of the Virgin Mary and Christ with the masterful style of the Constantinople School. Of the hagiographies that have survived to this day, those in the center of the church stand out. These are untitled hagiographies of four military saints, who have been identified with figures from the Komnenian family, including the founder. The sparkling marble of the floor, the columns, the iconostasis, as well as the gold plating illuminate the interior of the church along with the multitude of windows. The church of Panagia Kosmosotiras becomes resplendent and the founder imprints in the Typikon the command that it be preserved as such throughout the centuries.

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MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.
MadeinMycountry Thrace Θρακη. Τοπικο, παραδοσιακο, “Φτιαγμενο στη χωρα μου”. MadeinMycountry Thrace, Greece (Hellas). MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.

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Athena, Hellas (Greece) and its 6000 year history!!

MadeinMycountry presents Athens (Athena):

Attica, the land that gave birth to ideas and arts, has created and shaped what we call today the western civilisation. Today, a visit to Attica offers visitors a unique experience.

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A “journey” in its 6,000-year history, including the chance to see renowned monuments and masterpieces of art of antiquity and the Middle Ages, and the architectural heritage of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Here lies Athens, the capital of Greece, the busiest city of the country with the most prominent archaeological site and symbol of the country, the world famous sacred rock of the Acropolis.

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Attica is home to some of the world’s most important and fascinating museums and archaeological sites, testimony to its long and prominent role in world history.

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Festivals featuring ancient Greek drama, as well as performances, sports or culinary events are organized throughout the year, spellbinding the audience.

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MadeinMycountry presents Athens (Athena): MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.
MadeinMycountry presents Athens (Athena): MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.

MadeinMycountry presents Athens (Athena): MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.

MadeinMycountry presents Athens (Athena): MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts. For two decades, we have been sponsoring local museums, cultural organizations, travel destinations, historical sites, and various cultural events around the world.
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Greek islands, Cyprus Aegean seafood cuisine

Delightful Flavours from the Aegean Sea

Your journeys around the Aegean Sea and the islands you visit will steal your heart with their captivating local scents and delicious flavours. Welcome to the Aegean Sea’s world of taste: rich white or red sauces; tenderly cooked pulses; home-grown tasty vegetables traditionally grown on dry soil; bread and rusks with the robust flavour of the local wheat and barley varieties; and fresh goat cheeses, as filling to fluffy little pies wrapped in thin dough, are some of your options as you follow our gastronomic map of the area.

Greek islands, Cyprus Aegean seafood cuisine

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Main Ingredients: Sea & Sun

The Aegean Sea and Islands have been shaped by the sun, the sea and the invigorating winds. The local culinary traditions date back to ancient times and they are an intrinsic part of the Aegean Culture. Top quality ingredients wear the aromas of the earth: oregano, thyme, bay leaves, rosemary, lemons, and olive oil. Each island’s microclimate has contributed to the growth of flavourful produce, some of which are unique across the world.


Greens & Aromatic Plants

The Aegean landscape hides fragrant and tasty surprises to visitors who want to explore its rough barren hills and volcanic soil, its olive groves that grow on dry soil and its rocky shores. Savour boiled greens picked from the mountains, sprinkled with olive oil and lemon juice as a side dish to your grilled meat or fish dish. A large variety of aromatic plants and herbs, such as oregano, savory, marjoram and thyme flavour marinades and stews cooked in lemon sauce. Capers and crithmum (rock samphire) are two wild plants that thrive by the seashore and they make some excellent appetizers to enjoy with your tsipouro drink.

Greek islands, Cyprus Aegean seafood cuisine

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Fresh Fish & Seafood Appetizers

Fish can be cooked in various ways as long as you use your imagination… and in this department Greeks fare well. Small or medium sized fish are floured and fried in sizzling olive oil which turns them into crispy treats, sometimes served along with a tasty sourish marinade-sauce called ‘savoro’. To make this sauce locals use olive oil, quality vinegar, rosemary, and oregano – it’s the standard recipe on most of the islands.

On Tinos Island people add petimezi (grape molasses) to their food, which lends their creations a particular flavour. Other dishes you’ll love are: red mullets with a barley rusk crust on Mytilini, Lesvos Island; oven-baked fish with sesame paste (tachini) on Rhodes Island; chub mackerel with capers; grouper stew with onions; kakavia soup (made with rockfish); picarel omelette on Santorini and Syros Islands; a fish pie made with Mediterranean sand smelt on Kimolos Island; stuffed squid with rice or feta cheese, cuttlefish with fennel and olives, to name but a few…

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Make sure you also taste some special mezedes (meaning titbits) with your tsipouro or ouzo drink, such as salt-cured sardines from Mytilini, grilled sun-dried chub mackerel (gouna) from Paros Island, a salad with herring roe from Syros Island, marinated anchovies and salt-cured tuna.

Greek islands, Cyprus Aegean seafood cuisine

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Shellfish

Delicious summer teasers!

With the thousands dispersed islands, the deep blue clear seas, and the innumerable leeward bays, Greece is the ideal place for hundreds of shelfish to be found in abundance. Hundreds of species of shellfish reside in the Greek seas. No matter what the geographical variation of their names is, they keep the aromas of the sea well enclosed in their tiny bodies.

Mussels, with their black lustrous colour and the hair between the two shells, are usually attached on rocks in shallow waters. Oysters are stunning like scarlet gems with an iodine scent. Scallops are well-known for their brackish taste and their tender heart well protected by the hard shell.

Pen shells stand on the bottom of the sea – sometimes ajar- on the alert for capturing their food; their allies are two little shrimps that bite their tender parts whenever there is enemy at the gates. With a taste reminiscent of oyster, there are the red and sharp arca shells. Thorny sea urchins encompass gold and red eggs. Sea figs resemble hairy stones in a dark khaki tone. Clams shine in their brownish shell which keeps their skin juicy and delicious.

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The Aegean sea of Greece (Hellas), Cyprus and the Greek islands!! MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts.
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The sea on your table

Raw or cooked, shellfish reach the top of their taste potential when served with lemon. Here are our suggestions:

  • Mussels: hot with just a drop of olive oil; fried with feta, oregano and other spices; in souvlaki; in a mussel pilaf.
  • Clams, oysters, sea figs and arca shells are best when eaten raw with lemon.
  • Pen shells: when fried they taste like crabs.
  • Sea urchins provide irresistible delicious salads with a strong sea aroma.
  • Scallops are wonderful whether grilled, fried, or cooked with pasta on a tomato sauce.

Gastronomy

Diving into omega-3’s

Rich in polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, shellfish armour health as they prevent from heart diseases and hypertension, they reduce the effects of diabetes, and they stimulate your libido. What is more, they contain proteins, calcium, phosphorous, iodine, and low-calorie carbohydrates.

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The Aegean sea of Greece (Hellas), Cyprus and the Greek islands!! MadeinMycountry is a global platform that celebrates and supports local history, culture, art, and nature conservation efforts.
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Tips for shellfish lovers

Opening a shellfish is a small adventure. The easiest way is to put a knife at the slit between the two shells and twist it softly. Then detach the skin. When it comes to sea urchins, use a knife to open its mouth.

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Greek islands, Cyprus Aegean seafood cuisine

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