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78-515: Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees from Constantinople after the 1919–22 Greco-Turkish war and the subsequent population exchange between Greece and Turkey, it is one of the three most successful clubs in Greece. While it fields teams in many sports under the umbrella of its amateur sports arm, Amateur AEK ( Greek : Ερασιτεχνική ΑΕΚ ; Erasitechnikί AEK) with A.E.K. Handball team to be

156-401: A 'closed league' and ignoring the principle of meritocracy . In July 2019, EuroLeague announced that from the 2019–20 season there will be no direct access to the league through domestic leagues anymore. On 26 July 2010, Turkish Airlines and Euroleague Basketball announced a €15 million strategic agreement to sponsor the top European basketball competition across the globe. According to

234-744: A brief period in 1925–1926. AEK is an amateur multi-sports club with the mission to create and advance as many sports as it is possible and its main professional and semiprofessional teams operate independently. The club has teams in many sports, including athletics , cycling , boxing , chess , fencing , table tennis , wrestling , weightlifting , gymnastics , swimming , water polo both male and female teams, rugby league , tennis , badminton , kickboxing , taekwondo , Brazilian jiu-jitsu , wheelchair basketball , and esports , but its most popular teams primarily compete in association football , basketball , volleyball , handball , and futsal . Final-4 (4th) Greek refugees Greek refugees

312-780: A decorative element in the Greek Orthodox Church , which was the inheritor of the Byzantine legacy during the Ottoman Empire, while it remained a popular symbol among Greeks. In modern Greece various variations of the two-headed eagles are used in Church flags (based on Byzantine flag patterns and heraldic emblems ) and officially by the Hellenic Army ; the bird found also its way into the Greek coat of arms for

390-464: A five-game playoff series against a single opponent. The regular season standings are used to determine which teams play each other, and in each pairing the higher placed team has home-court advantage in the series, playing three of the five games at home. The winners of each of the four playoff series advance to the Final Four , held at a predetermined site. The Final Four features two semi-finals,

468-519: A historic European treble. In 2023, AEK Futsal Women's department won a national treble after winning the Hellenic Futsal Championship, Cup, and Super Cup. Since the club's foundation AEK adopted the image of a double-headed eagle on a golden yellow background. The emblem and colours were chosen as a reminder for the lost homelands and they represent the club's historical ties to Constantinople . Its usage also survived as

546-693: A historic intercontinental treble. In 2019, AEK Futsal won the Greek Championship . In 2019, AEK Women's Futsal won the Hellenic Futsal Greek Championship. In 2020, AEK BC won the Greek Cup . In 2020 AEK Futsal won the Greek Championship . In 2020, AEK HC won the Greek Championship . In 2021, AEK HC won the Greek Championship , the Greek Cup and the EHF European Cup ,

624-659: A large minority in the Smyrna Vilayet , which lay in an overwhelmingly Turkish Anatolia. The estimations of the Ecumenical Patriarchate , the Greek state and various Western sources, place their number much higher. The number of Greeks excluded from the population exchange was about 300,000 (270,000 living in Istanbul ). There are not exact figures of the refugee population in Greece. The first national Greek census after 1923, conducted in 1928, showed

702-812: A professional boxer in the United States). AEK H.C. is also another growing department of AEK. It was founded by a decision of the General Assembly of AEK on July 12, 2005. On August 5, 2005, the Greek Handball Federation accepted a merger of GA Ilioupolis with the Handball Sports Union of Constantinople . In 2007 AEK HC was 3rd in A1 and gained the first participation in European Cups. On 31 May 2009, AEK HC won

780-480: A quarter named Προσφυγικά , The Refugees' (quarter) . These new settlements were usually named after the place of origin of their inhabitants: This is a list of refugee settlements in Greece (the place of origin is in parentheses) * denotes settlement that pre-existed, but acquired a large number or refugees The arrival of the Asia Minor Greeks resulted in the rise of the agricultural production of

858-593: A score of 89–82, in Athens, in front of 80,000 spectators (at the time, the Guinness world record in basketball attendance) in Kallimarmaron Stadium . AEK Athens V.C. is the volleyball team of the Greek sports club AEK. It was re-founded in 1967 by Jason Platsi. Over the years AEK have struggled to stay in the top flight of Greek volleyball, competing in A2 (Greece's second division) and A1. The Boxing Club

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936-567: A third place game, and the championship game , all on the same weekend. Each team plays a maximum 41 games per season: 34 in the regular season, a maximum of 5 during the playoffs, and 2 in the Final Four. Currently (and since the suspension of Russian teams because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine ), 12 out of the 18 EuroLeague places are held by licensed clubs that have long-term licenses with Euroleague Basketball , and are members of

1014-492: A true league format, with 16 teams playing each other team in the regular season followed by the playoffs. The A-licensed clubs were assured of participation for the following ten years in the new format. After the new format of the EuroLeague and FIBA implementing national team windows, a conflict between the two organizations emerged. EuroLeague has been criticised by FIBA as well as several national federations for creating

1092-637: Is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor , Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) , as well as remaining Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Turkey who were required to leave their homes for Greece shortly thereafter as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey , which formalized

1170-512: Is made for the Refugees from Smyrna ( Oi prosfyges tis Smyrnis , Πρόσφυγες της Σμύρνης ), since Smyrna was then the second largest Turkish city, and many of the affected Greeks lived there. The refugees from Eastern Thrace are also included. The eastern coast of the Aegean was inhabited by Greeks as early as the 9th century BC. Aeolian , Ionian and Dorian colonies were established from

1248-585: Is usually estimated that the refugees in Greece numbered approximately 1.5 million people. Descendants of the refugees took part in the great Greek migrations of the Interwar period, as well as the large immigrations to the United States, Australia and Germany in the 1960s-1970s. The core of the refugee population settled in Attica and Macedonia . The official refugee population per region in 1928

1326-632: The Greek Cup . In 2014, AEK VC won the Greek Men's League Cup . In 2016, AEK FC won the Greek Cup . In 2018 , AEK BC won the FIBA Champions League and the Greek Cup . In 2018, AEK FC won the Greek Championship . In 2018, AEK Futsal won the Greek Cup . Also, in 2018, AEK HC reached the final of Challenge Cup . In 2019, AEK BC won the FIBA Intercontinental Cup to complete

1404-412: The 2016–17 season , the EuroLeague operates under a league format. Starting with the 2016–17 season , the EuroLeague is made up of 18 teams, with each playing every other team twice (once at home and once away) in a double round robin league regular season , for a total of 34 games played by each team. The top eight placed teams at the end of the regular season advance to playoffs , each playing

1482-539: The Balkan Wars . The argument that Greeks constituted the majority of the population of Anatolia claimed by Greece during Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) has been contested by a number of historians. In their book about the British foreign policy of World War I and post war years, Cedric James Lowe and Michael L. Dockrill argued that: Greek claims were at best debatable, [they were] perhaps a bare majority, more likely

1560-769: The Dardanelles to Caria , with the most important being Miletus , Phocaea , Ephesus and Smyrna . The prominence of the Ionians gave to the region the name Ionia . The Greeks of Asia Minor contributed significantly in the ancient Greek history , from the Ionian Revolt , the Ionian League and the conquests of Alexander the Great , to the Hellenistic kingdoms of Pergamos and Pontus . The Ionians were

1638-466: The EuroCup . In November 2015, Euroleague Basketball and IMG agreed on a 10-year joint venture. Both Euroleague Basketball and IMG will manage the commercial operation, and the management of all global rights covering both media and marketing. The deal was worth €630 million guaranteed over 10 years, with projected revenues reaching €900 million. Along with the deal the league changed into

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1716-715: The FIBA EuroLeague 's Final Four in Barcelona in 1998 , and beat Benetton Treviso , by a score of 69–66, before losing in the EuroLeague Final to Kinder Bologna , by a score of 44–58. In 2000, on 11 April, AEK won their second international trophy, the FIBA Saporta Cup , by defeating Kinder Bologna 83–76. The biggest success for the boxing department came in the late 1990s, with Tigran Ouzlian , Artur Mikaelyan and Mike Arnaoutis (who became

1794-645: The Plague of Justinian ) devastated the area in various times. However, Asia Minor remained densely populated , compared to the rest of the Medieval world and held the bulk of the empire's Greek speaking orthodox Christian population. Thus, many renowned Greek-speaking figures who lived during this time were Asia Minor Greeks, including Saint Nicholas (270-343), John Chrysostomos (349-407), Isidore of Miletus (6th century), and Basilios Bessarion (1403-1472). The Greek speaking Christian population began to decline with

1872-714: The Republic of Pontus . The defeat of the Greek army during the Greco-Turkish War led to what became known in Greece as the Asia Minor Catastrophe . A series of events, with the Great Fire of Smyrna been their peak, ended the 3,000-year-old Greek presence in Asia Minor. The Treaty of Lausanne , which was signed in 1923, anticipated the compulsory exchange of populations. The remaining Greek Orthodox population of Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace, as well as

1950-546: The Tatavla district, Mégas Aléxandros ( Μέγας Αλέξανδρος ) and Ermís ( Ερμής ) of Galata , and Olympiás ( Ολυμπιάς ) of Therapia existed to promote the Hellenic athletic and cultural ideals. These were amongst a dozen Greek-backed clubs that dominated the sporting landscape of the city in the years preceding World War I . After the war, with the influx of mainly French and British soldiers to Constantinople, many of

2028-467: The cultural field . The Greek trade and the exchange rates pushed the Greek economy into a new era of industrialization and development, partly due to the arrival of thousands of cheap hands , manpower of low cost. New industries were established in short time by the skilled refugee population (e.g. carpet industries). In addition, many of them became later successful ship-owners (e.g. Aristotle Onassis ). The Asia Minor Greeks became an inspiration for

2106-510: The 2000–01 season. The SuproLeague , which was organized by FIBA , and the Euroleague , which was organized by Euroleague Basketball . The EuroLeague operated under a tournament system, from its inaugural 1958 season , through the 2015–16 season . *There were two competitions during the 2000–01 season. The SuproLeague , which was organized by FIBA , and the Euroleague , which was organized by Euroleague Basketball . Starting with

2184-496: The Anatolian Christian population were severe, as well as the changes in the demography of Greece herself, where thousands of people died of diseases. The diseases had also an impact on the native population of the country. Apart from malaria, which caused the death of tens of thousands, diseases that had not appeared in Greece for years ( cholera , plague ) increased the already high mortality rates. The problem of

2262-631: The Attica Cup in 2006 and the Attica Rapid Championships in 2006, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 participated at A' Ethniki (1st Division) and took the seventh place. AEK VC had its finest moment with coach Stelios Prosalikas, as has prevailed in the final four of the European Cup Winners Cup. The races held (9–10 March 2000) in the closed Nea Liosia and AEK lost in the semi-final by Cuneo, but won 3–1 Galatasaray in

2340-728: The Balkan Games (in 1940 in Bucharest when he was third) and was one of the founders of the Chamber. He first appeared in 1929 and was followed by Petoun, Tarsinian and Krisalis. Another cycling ace was Kouvelis, who won the gold medal in the Balkan Games of 1940 in the race of 33 kilometers. Both Kaloudis and his Kouvelis participated in the Olympic Games in London in 1948. In the Olympic Games of 1948 in London, M. Kaloudis led to

2418-602: The EuroCup makes it to the playoffs, it keeps the place for the following year. These are the teams that participate in the 2024–25 EuroLeague season: Since the beginning of the 2000–01 season ( Euroleague Basketball era): All averages include playoffs and Final Four games. This list shows the averages attendances of each team since the 16-team regular season was established in 2016. All averages include playoffs games. Note: Match between Panathinaikos and Barcelona on 18 April 2013, at OAKA Sports Center ,

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2496-458: The EuroLeague are considered to be the same competition, with the change of name being simply a re-branding. The EuroLeague is one of the most popular indoor sports leagues in the world, with an average attendance of 10,383 for league matches in the 2023–24 season . This was the fifth-highest of any professional indoor sports league in the world (the highest outside the United States), and the second-highest of any professional basketball league in

2574-618: The Euroleague. Both organizations realized the need to come up with a unified competition and Euroleague Basketball negotiated terms and dictated proceedings which FIBA agreed to their terms. As a result, European club competition was fully integrated under Euroleague Basketball's umbrella and teams that competed in the FIBA SuproLeague during the 2000–01 season joined it as well. The authority in European professional basketball

2652-703: The Greek Cup in Serres. The department of AEK Futsal Club was established in 2008 by a merger with Enosi Geraka futsal team and participated in B'Ethniki (second division), where it finished first at the regular season and second after play-off games. However, for the period 2009–10 AEK futsal club is playing again at B'Ethniki, due to a decision taken by EPO (Greek Football Federation), forbidding all team mergers generally. AEK Futsal Club terminated at second position of B'Ethniki after play-off games in April 2010 and gained

2730-627: The Greeks. The custom of the Janissaries and the various restrictions on the religious, economic and social lives of the non-Muslim inhabitants of the Empire constituted an imminent danger for the continuation of the Greek inhabitation of Asia Minor. Conditions were improved over the following centuries, but the Greeks remained in the lower caste status of Dhimmi . Islamization and gradual Turkification continued. The ideas of The Enlightenment and

2808-516: The Muslim population of Greece (the Greeks of Constantinople, Imbros and Tenedos and the Muslims of Western Thrace were excluded) were denaturalized from homelands of centuries or millennia. 1914 Ottoman census, which followed the 1909 census, showed a steep decrease of the Greek population by almost 1 million between these years due to loss of lands (with their population) to Greece after

2886-575: The Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos , petitioned the government to set aside land for the establishment of a sports ground. In 1926, land in Nea Filadelfeia that was originally set aside for refugee housing, was donated as a training ground for the refugees' sports activities. AEK began using the ground for training, albeit unofficially. In 1930, the property where AEK trained was officially signed over to

2964-484: The Shareholders Executive Board. These twelve licensed clubs are: The remaining six EuroLeague places are held by associated clubs that have annual licences, of which one has a two-year wild card , three have one-year wild-cards and two are the finalists of the previous season's 2nd-tier European competition , the EuroCup . From the 2020–21 season, however, if the better of the two teams from

3042-563: The United States through the ESPN family of networks since 2023, starting with the playoffs of the 2022-2023 season. It was also televised in the United States and Canada on NBA TV and available online through ESPN3 (in English) and ESPN Deportes (in Spanish) until the 2017–2018 season. Starting with the 2017-2018 Final Four playoffs, and continuing into the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons,

3120-732: The agreement, starting with the 2010–11 season, the top European competition would be named Turkish Airlines Euroleague Basketball. Similarly, the EuroLeague Final Four would be named the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four, whereby the new league title would appear in all media accordingly. This title partnership was set to run for five seasons, with the option of extending it to an additional five. On 23 October 2013, Turkish Airlines and Euroleague Basketball agreed to extend their partnership, up until 2020. *There were two competitions during

3198-550: The best Greek handball club in European achievements having obtained one EHF European Cup (in 2021) and having also reached to the finals (in 2018) and to the semi-finals (in 2019), AEK sports club is best known for its professional football team which have made some notable wins on European competitions (participating at the Semi-final of Europa League in 1977), having also obtained 13 Greek Championships , 16 Greek Cups , 1 Greek League Cup , 2 Greek Super Cups ) and also for

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3276-415: The center of Athens, and created AEK. Their intention was to create a club that provided athletic and cultural diversions for the thousands of predominantly Constantinopolitan and Anatolian refugees who had settled in the new suburbs of Athens (including Nea Filadelfeia , Nea Ionia , Nea Chalkidona , Nea Smyrni ). AEK's first president, Konstantinos Spanoudis (1871–1941), a journalist and associate of

3354-497: The city clubs participated in regular competition with teams formed by the foreign troops. Taxim , Pera , and Tatavla became the scene of weekly competitions in football, athletics, cycling, boxing and tennis. Ermís, one of the most popular clubs, was formed in 1875 by the Greek community of the city. Another club of Pera (Galata), known as Pera , since the mid-1880s, forced to change its name to Pera Sports Club , and then Beyoğlu S.K., in 1923. Many of its athletes, with those of

3432-399: The city in three years before 1928. The Orthodox Christian refugees from Asia Minor are usually called in Greek simply Οι Πρόσφυγες ( Oi Prosfyges , The Refugees ). Alternative terms used are Οι Μικρασιάτες πρόσφυγες ( Oi Mikrasiates prosfyges , The Asia Minor refugees ) or Οι πρόσφυγες του '22 ( Oi prosfyges tou '22 , The refugees of 1922 ). Further distinctions are made to denote

3510-521: The club. Venizelos soon approved the plans to build what was to become AEK's home ground for the next 70 years, the Nikos Goumas Stadium . The liberal politician was present at the inauguration of the stadium. AEK Athletic Club was established in 1924 and is one of the most successful departments of AEK. One of the first sections of the AEK athletic club was cycling. M. Kaloudis was a winner in

3588-666: The decades of 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. AEK was the first ever Greek basketball team to participate in the FIBA European Champions Cup (now called the EuroLeague ) Final Four , in 1966, which was held in Bologna, Italy . Two years later, AEK was the first-ever Greek team, not only to reach a FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Final , but also to win a European-wide title. On April 4, 1968, AEK captained by Giorgos Amerikanos , defeated Slavia VŠ Praha , by

3666-479: The diaspora to promote their civilization and to keep in touch with their roots. Various museums in Greece (such as the Benaki Museum ) display artifacts from Asia Minor, Pontus, Cappadocia and Eastern Thrace to denote the Greek presence and emphasize the origins of about 40% of the population of modern Greece. For its efforts concerning the relief of the refugees The Greek Red Cross (Croix-Rouge Hellénique)

3744-709: The first Greek-speaking people that the Persians encountered, and the Persian name for Greece became Younan or Yunan (یونان), derived from the word "Ionia." The name spread throughout the Near East and Central Asia. Following the spread of the Hellenistic civilization in the 3rd century BC, Greek became the lingua franca of Asia Minor, and by the fifth century AD, when the last of the Indo-European native languages of Anatolia ceased to be spoken, Greek became

3822-407: The hands of the newly established Republic of Turkey . According to the Treaty of Lausanne , both states had the obligation to make reparations of the properties of the exchanged populations, an obligation that was never fulfilled, at the expense mostly of the Greek Orthodox refugees (whose number was larger and wealthier than the agricultural Muslim population of Greece). The demographic changes of

3900-400: The homogeneity of the population, especially in Northern Greece ( Macedonia and Thrace ). The urban population increased greatly, resulting in the creation of the modern Greek metropolises of Athens and Thessaloniki . New liberal ideas arrived along with the refugees, especially those coming from the cosmopolitan city of Smyrna . The influence of the refugees was particularly important in

3978-574: The housing of the refugees was the most pressing. Within the first ten days of October 1922, 50,000 Greeks mainly from Kydonies/Ayvali arrived in Lesbos , creating a huge humanitarian problem. During the years 1923–1928, the Greek state built 25,000 houses for the refugees. The Institute for the relief of the Refugees (ΕΑΠ, EAP) built another 27,000 houses (11,000 only in Attica). The same institute spent an estimated 2,422,961 English pounds in order to house 165,000 refugees in Athens and Thessaloniki. The Asia Minor Expedition and Catastrophe, as well as

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4056-446: The invasions of the Muslim Seljuq Turks in the 11th century. The establishment of the Seljuk Empire deprived the Byzantines of a large part of Asia Minor. The Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, and the subsequent fall in 1461 of the Greek Empire of Trebizond , located along the eastern Black Sea coast, marked the end of Greek sovereignty in Asia Minor. The first centuries of the Ottoman rule were named The Dark centuries by

4134-418: The league a semi-closed league . The league was first organized by FIBA in 1958, subsequently by ULEB in 2000 and then solely the Euroleague Basketball . The competition was introduced in 1958 as the FIBA European Champions Cup (renamed the FIBA EuroLeague in 1996), which operated under FIBA's umbrella until Euroleague Basketball was created for the 2000–01 season. The FIBA European Champions Cup and

4212-407: The missing Greeks were soon raised in the International Red Cross , without any success and cooperation from the Turkish side. To this day, the Greek citizens who were born in Asia Minor have to apply for a visa in order to enter Turkey (something that does not apply to Greek citizens born in Greece). The descendants of the refugees have found hundreds of organizations and institutes in Greece and in

4290-432: The native Greek population during the Interwar period, and fought along with their compatriots in World War II, as well, as they had an active role in the Greek Resistance . The Greek Orthodox population of Anatolia constituted one of the wealthiest groups of the former Ottoman Empire. They controlled a lot of the economic life and the trade of Anatolia. Their expulsion led to the abandonment of many factories and shops in

4368-537: The new excursion of AEK in cycling. At the beginning of the 1950s, the sport had blossomed and AEK competed with Panionios and Panathinaikos. The department then had a plethora of skilled cyclists as Davouti, Kouyioumtzis (won the race Athens-Loutraki 1952), Chatziargyri, Georgiadis, Arapi, Barda, Alexis, Tzioti, Barla, Trasian, etc. AEK Table Tennis Club acquired the third position, both in men and in young men championships, in Greece in 1959. AEK Athens Table Tennis (ping-pong) Club, participated in Greek championships during

4446-456: The number of the Greeks of Asia Minor origin to be 1,164,267. Some refugees had moved to Russia and the Middle East in previous years. Approximately 250,000 Greek Americans of Asia Minor descent had emigrated to the United States between 1866 and 1917, had American citizenship , and thereby would not become refugees; they would, however, be deprived from their property rights in their ancestral homeland, as well as from their right to return. It

4524-417: The other sporting clubs, fled during the population exchanges at the end of the Greco-Turkish War , and settled mainly in Athens and Thessaloniki . In 1924, the founders of AEK - a group of Constantinopolitan refugees (among them many athletes from the Pera Sports Club and the other Constantinopolitan clubs) - met at the athletic shop "Lux" of Emilios Ionas and Konstantinos Dimopoulos on Veranzerou Street, in

4602-434: The participation in A'Ethniki (first division) for the period 2010–11 and has been advanced to the semi-finals of the Greek Cup (2011). The Chess department was founded by a decision of the General Assembly of AEK on 12 July 2005. The department staffed directly by 3 September 2005 is a member of the Greek Chess Federation. In 2006 AEK Chess Club was Greek Cup finalist and in 2008 Greek Cup semi-finalist (third place). Also won

4680-434: The population transfer and barred the return of the refugees. This Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations was signed in Lausanne , on January 30, 1923 as part of the peace treaty between Greece and Turkey and required all remaining Orthodox Christians in Turkey , regardless of what language they spoke, be relocated to Greece with the exception of those in Istanbul and two nearby islands. Although

4758-520: The professional basketball team which has won the Greek Basket League eight times, the Greek Basket Cup five times, the FIBA Saporta Cup twice, once the FIBA Basketball Champions League and once the FIBA Intercontinental Cup. The large Greek population of Constantinople , not unlike those of the other Ottoman urban centres, continued its athletic traditions in the form of numerous athletic clubs. Clubs such as Énosis Tataoúlon ( Ένωσις Ταταούλων ) and Iraklís (today Kurtuluş S.K. ) ( Ηρακλής ) from

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4836-409: The refugees from various historic regions of Anatolia : Πόντιοι πρόσφυγες ( Pontioi prosfyges , Pontic refugees ) from the Black Sea coast, Καππαδόκες πρόσφυγες ( Kappadokes prosfyges , Cappadocian refugees ) from central Turkey, Μικρασιάτες πρόσφυγες ( Mikrasiates prosfyges , The refugees from Asia Minor ), to refer to the Greeks from the geographic area of the peninsula; special reference

4914-441: The small final and won the third place. In 2011, AEK FC won the Greek Cup . In 2011, AEK HC won the Greek Championship . Also, on 26 February 2011, AEK HC advanced to the quarter-final (best 8) of European Challenge Cup by defeating Sporting Lisboa. In 2012, AEK WVC won the Greek Women Championship . In 2013, AEK HC make Double won the Greek Championship and the Greek Cup . In 2014, AEK HC won

4992-427: The sole spoken language of the natives of Asia Minor. After the founding of Constantinople by the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in 330, Asia Minor, the major part of the Greek East , became the most important region of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire . For the centuries to follow, the area was the main manpower and wheat source of the state. Numerous invasions and epidemics (especially

5070-472: The state by 400%. The arable land increased by 55%. The Nikolaos Plastiras Government decided on February 14, 1923 to further divide the arable land of Greece, in order for the refugees and their descendants to be the owners of their own land. The income tax revenues of the Greek state rose by about 400%, or five-fold, within four years, mainly thanks to the refugees (from 319 million drachmas in 1923, to 1.137 billion in 1927 ). Greece managed to increase

5148-405: The subsequent Greek War of Independence , raised the hopes of the Asia Minor Greeks for sovereignty. Many Greeks from Anatolia fought as revolutionaries and faced the retaliations of the Sultan . The persecutions , massacres , expulsions , and death marches of the Asia Minor Greeks were renewed during the early 20th century by the Young Turk administration of the Ottoman Empire and during

5226-451: The subsequent revolution of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk . The Ottoman Greek population was severely affected; its misfortunes became known as the Greek Genocide . After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, the Allies granted Greece, with the Treaty of Sèvres , the administration of Eastern Thrace (apart from Constantinople ) and the city of Smyrna and its environs. The Pontic Greeks attempted to establish their own republic,

5304-511: The term has been used in various times to refer to fleeing populations of Greek descent (primarily after the Ionian Revolt , the Fall of Constantinople or the Greek Civil War ), the population strength and the influence of the Asia Minor Greeks in Greece itself, has attached the term to the Anatolian Greek population of the early 20th century. At least 300,000 Greek refugees were from Eastern Thrace , whereas at least 900,000 were from Asia Minor . At least 150,000 were from Istanbul , who left

5382-447: The third position in Greek Cups of 1984 and 1985. The relevant department of AEK was inactive for almost 23 years (1986–2009). The football team, under the guidance of ex-player Dušan Bajević won three consecutive championships in 1992, 1993 and 1994. Since 1995, AEK also has a women's volley club team, which has advanced to the final of the Greek Cup (2011). The department of fencing was founded in 1996. The basketball team reached

5460-409: The two leagues: Panathinaikos , Maccabi Tel Aviv , CSKA Moscow and Efes Pilsen stayed with FIBA, while Olympiacos , Kinder Bologna , Real Madrid Teka , FC Barcelona , Paf Wennington Bologna , Žalgiris Kaunas , Benetton Treviso , AEK and Tau Cerámica joined Euroleague Basketball . In May 2001, Europe had two continental champions, Maccabi of the FIBA SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna of

5538-434: The uprooting of the ethnic Greek population from Anatolia after three thousand years of presence, had an enormous impact on the Greek psyche. The Smyrna Catastrophe has been considered as the worst incident of modern Greek history, and as an incident of the same magnitude as the Fall of Constantinople for the Greeks. The matters related to the refugees halted the Greco-Turkish relations for many decades. The issues concerning

5616-510: The world, only behind the National Basketball Association (NBA). The EuroLeague title has been won by 22 clubs, 14 of which have won it more than once. The most successful club in the competition is Real Madrid , with eleven titles. The FIBA European Champions Cup was originally established by FIBA and it operated from 1958 until the summer of 2000, concluding with the 1999–00 season . Euroleague Basketball

5694-475: Was as follows (number of refugees and percent of the refugee population): Numerous suburbs, towns and villages were established to house the additional population of Greece, which rose by about 1/3 in just a few months. These areas are often named Nea (New) followed by the name of the Greek-speaking town or city in Asia Minor that its residents came from. In addition, to this day every town in Greece has

5772-555: Was created after the end of the FIBA European Champions Cup. FIBA had previously used the flying pigeon name for the competition since 1996 but had never trademarked the name. As FIBA had no legal recourse on the usage of the name, it started a new league named the FIBA SuproLeague . The following 2000–2001 season started with two top European professional club basketball competitions: FIBA SuproLeague (renamed from FIBA EuroLeague) and Euroleague. Top clubs were split between

5850-657: Was divided over club-country lines. FIBA stayed in charge of national team competitions (like the FIBA EuroBasket , the FIBA World Cup , and the Summer Olympics ), while Euroleague Basketball took over the European professional club competitions. From that point on, FIBA's Korać Cup and Saporta Cup competitions lasted one more season and then Euroleague Basketball launched the ULEB Cup, now known as

5928-413: Was founded in 1969 and during the 1970s had its first success. The football team, with star player the striker Thomas Mavros , reached the semi-finals of UEFA Cup in 1977, where they were eliminated by Juventus . The Italian team eventually won the trophy. With many star players they continued appearing in European ( UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup ) competitions. AEK Table Tennis Club acquired

6006-706: Was nominated a total of 19 times from 1923 to 1930 for the Nobel Peace Prize ; 16 times in 1923, 2 in 1924 and 1 in 1930. The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded in 1923 and 1924. EuroLeague The EuroLeague , officially the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague , is a European men's professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier men's league in Europe. The league consists of 18 teams, of which 16 are given long-term licences and wild cards, making

6084-504: Was supposedly watched by about 30,000 spectators. However, it is not included in the table as the official data is 18,300. As of 4/4/2023 Partizan holds 10 games in top 10 most attended games. The EuroLeague season is broadcast on television, and can be seen in up to 201 countries and territories. It can be seen by up to 245 million (800 million via satellite) households weekly in China. EuroLeague basketball has been televised in

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