The Roman Agora was built in the 1st century BC, when Athens had already become part of the Roman Empire, as the new commercial center. The new agora was smaller than the Ancient Agora, and had a purely commercial character. It consisted of a large open space bordered on all four sides by colonnades with Ionic columns. Inside the colonnades were stores.

The tower in the second picture is the Tower of the Winds and was one of the world’s first clock towers. It was built around 50 BC, and designed by Greek astronomer Andronicus of Cyrrhus. An enormous water clock was housed inside, fed every 24hrs by a stream running down from the Acropolis. As the water level rose, a float rose, powering a mechanism that showed the progress of the sun across the sky. The lines of sundials can still be seen on the walls, as another way of telling the time (so long as the sun was shining). A bronze figure of Triton was placed on top as a weather-vane.

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🔴 NGO files lawsuit against Greece at EU Court for ‘Massive Pushback Operation’
>https://archive.is/3bAwJ

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🔸The Legal Centre Lesvos has filed a suit in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) accusing the Hellenic Coast Guard of unlawfully pushing refugees and illegal immigrants out of Greek waters

🔸 The suit focuses on 11 Syrian nationals who were part of a group of 180-200 people expelled from Greece to Turkey on 20-21 October 2020

🔸 The Legal Centre Lesvos AMKE is a civil non-profit organisation, registered in Greece and previously operative as a restricted fund under the auspices of Prism the Gift Fund (UK)

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🔴 "president of northern cyprus" says that he wants the sovereignty of "northern cyprus" to be recognized during the UN meeting that was set to discuss a solution for the Turkish occupation of Cyprus
>https://archive.is/j1v16

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🔸 "I want them to recognize my sovereignty. After all, my sovereignty exists. No one can take it from my hands. And it will continue to exist. Turkey recognizes me. That is why I will say there that you recognize my sovereignty, my state, the Turkish Cypriot democracy exists, it has been producing work for 60 years. Come through this structure, here, with mutual respect, with mutual recognition, on the basis of sovereign equality to reach an agreement "

🔸 "When we reach such an agreement, the whole of Cyprus will benefit, stability will come to the region again"

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