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106-449: The 18,300-capacity arena also contains a training facility. In 2023, Panathinaikos B.C. signed an agreement with the Greek state for a 49-year concession of the venue, making the club the sole tenant and binding it to invest in the renovation of the asset's infrastructure. The Olympic Indoor Hall is notable for its distinctive A-frame roof that features four huge pillars, each of which

212-525: A Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language . Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now-extinct Anatolian languages . The Greek language is conventionally divided into the following periods: In the modern era, the Greek language entered

318-636: A 5-game series. Panathinaikos won their 14th Greek Cup , by beating Olympiacos in the final, with a three-point difference (81-78). During the same year, Panathinaikos was able to break Olympiacos' home court twice in the Greek League Finals, thus conquering the Greek League championship for the 33rd time in the club's history. Since Dimitris Giannakopoulos first became the chairman of Panathinaikos, he repeatedly attempted to secure marketing deals with Asian corporations. The first step

424-466: A European game. During these golden years, Panathinaikos won 10 out of 14 Greek League championships, with their great leader and scorer Apostolos Kontos . During this period, Kostas Mourouzis , nicknamed the fox of coaching , managed the team of the 4-K (the young Kontos , Koroneos , Kokolakis and Kefalos ). These players, along with Iordanidis , who functioned as a link with older players, won 5 consecutive Greek League championships, and made

530-577: A basis for coinages: anthropology , photography , telephony , isomer , biomechanics , cinematography , etc. Together with Latin words , they form the foundation of international scientific and technical vocabulary ; for example, all words ending in -logy ('discourse'). There are many English words of Greek origin . Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. The ancient language most closely related to it may be ancient Macedonian , which, by most accounts,

636-508: A faster, more convenient cursive writing style with the use of ink and quill . The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, each with an uppercase ( majuscule ) and lowercase ( minuscule ) form. The letter sigma has an additional lowercase form (ς) used in the final position of a word: In addition to the letters, the Greek alphabet features a number of diacritical signs : three different accent marks ( acute , grave , and circumflex ), originally denoting different shapes of pitch accent on

742-421: A few days, as of January 14, 2021, when Panathinaikos announced Oded Kattash as the club's new head coach, on a one-and-a-half-year agreement. With coach Kattash, Panathinaikos managed to win both 2020–21 Greek Basket League and 2020–21 Greek Cup . However, on June 24, 2021, the team parted ways with him. Two days later, on June 26, 2021, Panathinaikos appointed Dimitris Priftis as their new head coach, on

848-435: A half seasons, Panathinaikos parted ways with coach Xavi Pascual, on December 20, 2018. Pasqual paid the price for the teams' poor performance and losing streak in 2018/2019 EuroLeague. Georgios Vovoras served as Panathinaikos' interim head coach for the second time in his career, as the club agreed with Hall-Of-Famer Rick Pitino to be the team's new head coach, until the end of the 2018/2019 season. With coach Pitino on

954-590: A lesser extent, in the Western Mediterranean in and around colonies such as Massalia , Monoikos , and Mainake . It was also used as the official language of government and religion in the Christian Nubian kingdoms , for most of their history. Greek, in its modern form, is the official language of Greece, where it is spoken by almost the entire population. It is also the official language of Cyprus (nominally alongside Turkish ) and

1060-400: A limited but productive system of compounding and a rich inflectional system. Although its morphological categories have been fairly stable over time, morphological changes are present throughout, particularly in the nominal and verbal systems. The major change in the nominal morphology since the classical stage was the disuse of the dative case (its functions being largely taken over by

1166-656: A match which took place at the Panathenaic Stadium . In 1937, Kalafatis managed to create a new Panathinaikos team that, during the following year, tried to catch up with already established clubs like the YMCA, Ethnikos G.S. Athens , Panionios , Aris and Iraklis . Angelos Fillipou , Nikos Mantzaroglou , Litsas and Dimitrakos were the ringleaders of the group and were later joined by Telis Karagiorgos , Thymios Karadimos , Giorgos Bofilios , Philipos Papaikonomou , Petros Polycratis and Nikos Polycratis . During

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1272-459: A mixed syllable structure, permitting complex syllabic onsets but very restricted codas. It has only oral vowels and a fairly stable set of consonantal contrasts . The main phonological changes occurred during the Hellenistic and Roman period (see Koine Greek phonology for details): In all its stages, the morphology of Greek shows an extensive set of productive derivational affixes ,

1378-564: A score of 93–91 in the final. The same teams (PAO and CSKA), competed in the final of the 2009 EuroLeague Final Four in Berlin, where Panathinaikos won the trophy again, for the fifth time in their history. The score was 73–71. On 14 December 2009, Panathinaikos was voted the top Greek sports team of 2009, by the Greek Sports Journalists Association, with 1,291 votes. In addition, head coach Želimir Obradović,

1484-460: A state of diglossia : the coexistence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of the language. What came to be known as the Greek language question was a polarization between two competing varieties of Modern Greek: Dimotiki , the vernacular form of Modern Greek proper, and Katharevousa , meaning 'purified', a compromise between Dimotiki and Ancient Greek developed in the early 19th century that

1590-528: A strong CSKA Moscow team, after winning in the last seconds of a thriller game. The club's last Greek League championship, before the club's decline that followed, was in 1984, when Panathinaikos won the big game title in Corfu , which Liveris Andritsos and Tom Kappos starring for the team. Panathinaikos had a great chance to avoid their upcoming decline, when they discovered Rony Seikaly , but Greek government bureaucratic problems prevented him from playing in

1696-432: A three-year deal. Priftis has been no stranger to the team, as he had served as an assistant coach in 2014, under then head coach Fragiskos Alvertis . Greek language Greek ( Modern Greek : Ελληνικά , romanized :  Elliniká , [eliniˈka] ; Ancient Greek : Ἑλληνική , romanized :  Hellēnikḗ ) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic branch within

1802-479: Is 35 meters tall, that stand 108 meters apart from each other. According to the Greek Ministry of Sports, it is the largest indoor sporting arena of its kind in the world. The arena is also constructed in a unique way so that an abundant amount of natural light comes into the arena during the day. The arena seats up to 17,600 for gymnastics events, although only 12,500 seats were made publicly available for

1908-763: Is still used internationally for the writing of Ancient Greek . In Greek, the question mark is written as the English semicolon, while the functions of the colon and semicolon are performed by a raised point (•), known as the ano teleia ( άνω τελεία ). In Greek the comma also functions as a silent letter in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing ό,τι ( ó,ti , 'whatever') from ότι ( óti , 'that'). Ancient Greek texts often used scriptio continua ('continuous writing'), which means that ancient authors and scribes would write word after word with no spaces or punctuation between words to differentiate or mark boundaries. Boustrophedon , or bi-directional text,

2014-562: Is the professional basketball team of the major Athens -based multi- sport club Panathinaikos A.O. It is owned by the Giannakopoulos family . The parent athletic club was founded in 1908, while the basketball team was created in 1919, being one of the oldest in Greece. Alongside Aris , they are the only un-relegated teams with participation in every Greek First Division Championship until today. Panathinaikos has developed into

2120-579: Is to modern spoken English ". Greek is spoken today by at least 13 million people, principally in Greece and Cyprus along with a sizable Greek-speaking minority in Albania near the Greek-Albanian border. A significant percentage of Albania's population has knowledge of the Greek language due in part to the Albanian wave of immigration to Greece in the 1980s and '90s and the Greek community in

2226-617: The 1998 FIBA World Championship . On 4 and 6 May 2007, the Indoor Hall hosted the EuroLeague 2006–07 season 's Final Four , the semifinals and finals rounds of Europe's principal pro club competition in basketball, which saw hometown favourite Panathinaikos win the title. On 9 December 2007, FIBA announced that the Olympic Indoor Hall was selected as the host of the 2008 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for

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2332-592: The 2008 Summer Olympic Games . At the qualifying tournament, hosts and favourites Greece , along with the German and Croatian national basketball teams, qualified for the final 2008 Olympic Basketball Tournament. In 2023 Panathinaikos B.C. and the Greek government reached agreement for the exclusive use of the Athens gym for the next 49 years. On 18 and 20 May 2006, the Hall hosted the 51st Eurovision Song Contest , that

2438-562: The British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (alongside English ). Because of the membership of Greece and Cyprus in the European Union, Greek is one of the organization's 24 official languages . Greek is recognized as a minority language in Albania, and used co-officially in some of its municipalities, in the districts of Gjirokastër and Sarandë . It is also an official minority language in

2544-460: The EuroLeague ), by beating Banca Catalana FC Barcelona in the tournament's final , by a score of 67–66. Back in Greece, right after the big win in Paris, Panathinaikos was not able to clinch the Greek League title, after again losing the title to Olympiacos . In the next season, Maljković removed all the stars from the roster, in an attempt to assemble a squad based on teamwork. With the start of

2650-657: The European canon . Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts in science and philosophy were originally composed. The New Testament of the Christian Bible was also originally written in Greek. Together with the Latin texts and traditions of the Roman world , the Greek texts and Greek societies of antiquity constitute the objects of study of the discipline of Classics . During antiquity , Greek

2756-654: The German occupation that followed, Dimitris Giannatos (founding member of the basketball team) was executed by the Nazis for his resistance action . In 1946 (the first post-war championship) and 1947, Panathinaikos emerged champions, with the help of players like Ioannis Lambrou , Missas Pantazopoulos , Stelios Arvanitis (these players would later go on to win the bronze medal in EuroBasket 1949 ) and Jack Nicolaidis (nephew of Apostolos Nikolaidis ). In 1950 and 1951, Panathinaikos emerged as champions once again with

2862-586: The Greek Cup , with a score of 53–68. Earlier in the cup competition, the team had to overcome the obstacles of Olympiacos and PAOK . Panathinaikos made the EuroLeague playoffs. In Greek League, Panathinaikos lost to Olympiacos in the finals, 0–3. On 30 June 2015, Sasha Đjorđjević was announced by the team, as the club's new head coach. Panathinaikos was able to sign Greek point guard Nick Calathes , and Serbian center Miroslav Raduljica . The debut of

2968-435: The Greek Cup . Georgios Vovoras served as interim head coach for the third time. On November 26, 2019, Rick Pitino typically and officially returned to Panathinaikos, after overcoming the family matter that kept him away from the benches, signing a one-and-a-half-year contract, becoming team's head coach until the summer of 2021. However, on 20 March 2020, Panathinaikos and Pitino have agreed to end their cooperation, in

3074-592: The Greek League as a Greek citizen, despite claims that he was entitled to do so, which ultimately forced him to move to the United States to play college basketball at Syracuse . In 1985, PAO finished in 3rd place in the Greek League. Stergakos , Ioannou , Vidas , Andritsos and Koroneos – who left the following year – were the key players. The balance of the Greek League's power however, had tilted in favour of Aris , and Panathinaikos ceased to be

3180-516: The Indo-Iranian languages (see Graeco-Aryan ), but little definitive evidence has been found. In addition, Albanian has also been considered somewhat related to Greek and Armenian, and it has been proposed that they all form a higher-order subgroup along with other extinct languages of the ancient Balkans; this higher-order subgroup is usually termed Palaeo-Balkan , and Greek has a central position in it. Linear B , attested as early as

3286-419: The O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall , which has a maximum capacity of 19,250 for basketball games. Panathinaikos also holds the world record for the longest title-winning streak, spanning 27 seasons, starting in 1995–96 and continuing up until 2021–22. Over these 27 years, Panathinaikos have won at least one title each season and 43 titles overall. Among the numerous well-known top class players who have played with

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3392-569: The Thessaloniki EuroLeague Final Four , Panathinaikos became EuroLeague champions for the second time, after beating Macabbi Elite Tel Aviv , 73–67, in the final. In 2002, in Bologna , at the 2002 EuroLeague Final Four , Panathinaikos won the most prestigious European trophy for the third time, after beating hosts Kinder Bologna , by the score of 89–83, in the final. Nevertheless, in this period they failed to win

3498-780: The United Kingdom , and throughout the European Union , especially in Germany . Historically, significant Greek-speaking communities and regions were found throughout the Eastern Mediterranean , in what are today Southern Italy , Turkey , Cyprus , Syria , Lebanon , Israel , Palestine , Egypt , and Libya ; in the area of the Black Sea , in what are today Turkey, Bulgaria , Romania , Ukraine , Russia , Georgia , Armenia , and Azerbaijan ; and, to

3604-468: The genitive ). The verbal system has lost the infinitive , the synthetically -formed future, and perfect tenses and the optative mood . Many have been replaced by periphrastic ( analytical ) forms. Pronouns show distinctions in person (1st, 2nd, and 3rd), number (singular, dual , and plural in the ancient language; singular and plural alone in later stages), and gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter), and decline for case (from six cases in

3710-417: The syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact (nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify and relative pronouns are clause-initial. However,

3816-566: The 20th century on), especially from French and English, are typically not inflected; other modern borrowings are derived from Albanian , South Slavic ( Macedonian / Bulgarian ) and Eastern Romance languages ( Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian ). Greek words have been widely borrowed into other languages, including English. Example words include: mathematics , physics , astronomy , democracy , philosophy , athletics , theatre, rhetoric , baptism , evangelist , etc. Moreover, Greek words and word elements continue to be productive as

3922-555: The EuroLeague playoffs, where they faced each year's upcoming champions (Fenerbahce in 2017, and Real Madrid in 2018) and eliminated from the EuroLeague Final Four both times. In the fifth Greek Basket League Championship final of 2017, Panathinaikos defeated Olympiacos in their home court, to win the Greek Championship after two years, winning the series with 3–2. The next year, Panathinaikos managed to be

4028-460: The Greek Cup, even though they played in two Greek Cup finals. Rebrača , Gentile , Middleton , Alvertis , Kattash , Kutluay , and Fotsis were some of the team's players who excelled during these years. The dominance in the Greek League was finally interrupted in 2002, the year that PAO won their 3rd EuroLeague championship. Also, at the end of the year, there were many significant changes in

4134-473: The Greek League (their worst results in many years). In 1988, the ban on using foreign players in the Greek League was lifted, and Panathinaikos was able to acquire Edgar Jones , from the NBA . He was a capable shooter, scorer and rebounder, and for the next 2 years, he was the star of the team. Although PAO achieved significant wins over the other major Greek teams, they did not manage any notable distinctions. Over

4240-431: The Greek League again, after 14 years. In the summer of 1998 Panathinaikos chairman Pavlos Giannakopoulos began assembling a team to conquer Europe. In order to achieve that, he signed the 1998 FIBA World Cup MVP , Dejan Bodiroga , while Nando Gentile , Pat Burke and Nikos Boudouris also joined the team. The 1998–99 season proved very important for Panathinaikos, as Olympiacos, who had gained home court advantage in

4346-431: The Greek League championship, thus losing the right to participate in next season's EuroLeague. In the next season, Slobodan Subotić assumed head coaching leadership of the club, and convinced Dino Rađja to come to Panathinaikos. The huge transfer of Radja was accompanied by three-time NBA champion Byron Scott and Fanis Christodoulou , and with the help of Alvertis , Oikonomou , and Koch , Panathinaikos finally won

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4452-471: The Greek League in 1991, and dropped to the 8th position in 1992, which left them outside of European-wide play for the first time since 1967. In 1992, the club's basketball department became professional , under the management of the Giannakopoulos family. In the summer of 1992, Panathinaikos attempted a full reconstruction of the team. Nikos Galis , the top Greek basketball player, was acquired by

4558-413: The Greek League playoffs, were prepared to return to the top. It was at the last game of the Greek League finals, when Panathinaikos achieved one of the most decisive away victories against their rivals, capturing the title. The arrival of Željko Obradović to Panathinaikos, during summer 1999, marked the beginning of an extraordinary period for the club, with many major successes, and the establishment of

4664-544: The Greek alphabet since approximately the 9th century BC. It was created by modifying the Phoenician alphabet , with the innovation of adopting certain letters to represent the vowels. The variant of the alphabet in use today is essentially the late Ionic variant, introduced for writing classical Attic in 403 BC. In classical Greek, as in classical Latin, only upper-case letters existed. The lower-case Greek letters were developed much later by medieval scribes to permit

4770-549: The Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary (also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences. The Cypriot syllabary is attested in Cyprus from the 11th century BC until its gradual abandonment in the late Classical period, in favor of the standard Greek alphabet. Greek has been written in

4876-593: The Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece , Cyprus , Italy (in Calabria and Salento ), southern Albania , and other regions of the Balkans , Caucasus , the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor , and the Eastern Mediterranean . It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet , which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek

4982-578: The League Finals. Panathinaikos made an offer to coach Pitino, and although he was willing to stay in Greece for the next season, a family matter occurred, so he had to return home. On June 24, 2019, Panathinaikos signed a two-year contract with Greek coach Argyris Pedoulakis once again, being the team's head coach for the third time in seven years. Pedoulakis's third stint ended on 15 November 2019, as Panathinaikos fired him once again, after team's poor performance on EuroLeague and elimination from

5088-404: The acute during the late 20th century, and it has only been retained in typography . After the writing reform of 1982, most diacritics are no longer used. Since then, Greek has been written mostly in the simplified monotonic orthography (or monotonic system), which employs only the acute accent and the diaeresis. The traditional system, now called the polytonic orthography (or polytonic system),

5194-479: The arrival of Proto-Greeks, some documented in Mycenaean texts ; they include a large number of Greek toponyms . The form and meaning of many words have changed. Loanwords (words of foreign origin) have entered the language, mainly from Latin, Venetian , and Turkish . During the older periods of Greek, loanwords into Greek acquired Greek inflections, thus leaving only a foreign root word. Modern borrowings (from

5300-598: The bench, Panathinaikos transformed into a different team and managed to make an impressive comeback to the EuroLeague, finishing in the sixth place and getting into the playoffs. There, they faced once again the champions, Real Madrid, and eliminated from the EuroLeague Final Four. The season ended with Panathinaikos winning both the Greek Cup beating PAOK in the Cup Final, and the Greek Basket League Championship sweeping 3-0 Promitheas in

5406-566: The building for the Olympics was completed on 30 June 2004, and it was officially reopened on 10 August 2004, shortly before the beginning of the games. The Indoor Hall is the regular home court for the Greek Basket League professional basketball club Panathinaikos . It is also the primary home court of the senior Greek National Basketball Team . The arena was used to host the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals stages of

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5512-626: The club at the time. Many players had to leave the team, including long-time club captain Nick Calathes . Also long-time Panathinaikos member through different roles, Manos Papadopoulos, who was very close to the Giannakopoulos family for over 30 years, left the Greens to join Zenit Saint Petersburg as the club's sports director. On June 26, 2020, Panathinaikos announced that the club's sport management will be represented by

5618-1143: The club over the years are Dominique Wilkins , Fragiskos Alvertis , Byron Scott , Nick Galis , John Salley , Dimitris Diamantidis , Antonio Davis , Stojko Vranković , Dino Rađja , Šarūnas Jasikevičius , Dejan Bodiroga , Oded Kattash , Ramūnas Šiškauskas , Panagiotis Giannakis , Fanis Christodoulou , Alexander Volkov , Marcelo Nicola , Hugo Sconochini , Željko Rebrača , Antonis Fotsis , İbrahim Kutluay , John Amaechi , Nikola Peković , Jaka Lakovič , Pepe Sánchez , Kostas Tsartsaris , Mike Batiste , Nick Calathes , Vassilis Spanoulis , Dejan Tomašević , Byron Dinkins , Ferdinando Gentile , Sani Bečirovič , Darryl Middleton , Lazaros Papadopoulos , Žarko Paspalj , Nikos Chatzivrettas , Dimos Dikoudis , Tiit Sokk , Sofoklis Schortsanitis , Jason Kapono , Arijan Komazec , Edgar Jones , Romain Sato , Johnny Rogers , Tony Delk , Drew Nicholas , Stéphane Lasme , Roko Ukić , Robertas Javtokas , Jonas Mačiulis , Ioannis Bourousis , James Gist , Keith Langford , Jimmer Fredette , Kostas Sloukas and Kendrick Nunn . Such players,

5724-420: The club, and was flanked by star players Stojko Vranković , Tiit Sokk , and Arijan Komazec . Thus, Galis lead PAO to a Greek Cup win and also to the Greek League championship finals, where they lost despite having home court advantage. In the next season, 1993–94, Galis, along with Sasha Volkov and Stojko Vranković, led Panathinaikos to a 3rd-place finish at the 1994 FIBA European League Final Four , which

5830-796: The country. Prior to the Greco-Turkish War and the resulting population exchange in 1923 a very large population of Greek-speakers also existed in Turkey , though very few remain today. A small Greek-speaking community is also found in Bulgaria near the Greek-Bulgarian border. Greek is also spoken worldwide by the sizable Greek diaspora which has notable communities in the United States , Australia , Canada , South Africa , Chile , Brazil , Argentina , Russia , Ukraine ,

5936-441: The dative led to a rise of prepositional indirect objects (and the use of the genitive to directly mark these as well). Ancient Greek tended to be verb-final, but neutral word order in the modern language is VSO or SVO. Modern Greek inherits most of its vocabulary from Ancient Greek, which in turn is an Indo-European language, but also includes a number of borrowings from the languages of the populations that inhabited Greece before

6042-454: The departure of Obradović , Panathinaikos' new head coach, Argiris Pedoulakis , was forced to make massive changes to the team, with 12 new players being added to the roster, including James Gist , Roko Ukić , and NBA players Jason Kapono and Marcus Banks . Team captains Dimitris Diamantidis and Kostas Tsartsaris led the rebuilding effort for the Greens, who reached the EuroLeague quarterfinals, only to fall to FC Barcelona Regal in

6148-528: The earliest forms attested to four in the modern language). Nouns, articles, and adjectives show all the distinctions except for a person. Both attributive and predicative adjectives agree with the noun. The inflectional categories of the Greek verb have likewise remained largely the same over the course of the language's history but with significant changes in the number of distinctions within each category and their morphological expression. Greek verbs have synthetic inflectional forms for: Many aspects of

6254-444: The establishment of the modern era EuroLeague Final Four format in 1988 (no other club has won more than four EuroLeague championships in this period). They were also EuroLeague runners-up in 2001 . They reached the EuroLeague Final Four twelve times altogether ( 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2005 , 2007 , 2009 , 2011 , 2012 , 2024 ). Panathinaikos started as a football club in 1908. In 1919, basketball

6360-412: The extent that one can speak of a new language emerging. Greek speakers today still tend to regard literary works of ancient Greek as part of their own rather than a foreign language. It is also often stated that the historical changes have been relatively slight compared with some other languages. According to one estimation, " Homeric Greek is probably closer to Demotic than 12-century Middle English

6466-451: The face of the coronavirus pandemic that has forced the suspension of play in EuroLeague and Greek Basket League . Rick Pitino returned to his family in USA, as he also agreed to be the new head coach of Iona College . Once again, Georgios Vovoras served as interim head coach, for the fourth time. In the summer of 2020, Panathinaikos went through major changes. On June 10, the owner of

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6572-464: The first European team to ever face a Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team. In addition, Panathinaikos became the first European team to win against a Chinese team, the Foshan Dralions , with a score of 66–67. On 8 March 2014, due to the fans' dissatisfaction with the team's bad record in the EuroLeague , the replacement of the team's head coach, Argiris Pedoulakis , was announced. It

6678-548: The first games of the Greek League, Nikos Galis , the player that had led PAO in the Greek Cup game against Olympiacos, and also in the decisive game of the FIBA European League 's 1994–95 season qualifiers, ended his professional basketball playing career. As a consequence, the team, despite playing some great games, only managed to retain the 3rd-place finish in Europe , and make the Greek League finals. During

6784-516: The following years, thus creating a dynasty . Panathinaikos had radically changed the style of their game, after replacing Bodiroga. The game contribution of the Serbian player was replaced by an unprecedented model of teamwork, that proved that a superstar was unnecessary. Players such as Lakovič , Alvertis , Diamantidis , Fotsis , Tsartsaris , Batiste , and later Spanoulis , Šiškauskas , and Jasikevičius , who played not for themselves, but for

6890-644: The greatest accomplishment of their time by participating in the semifinals of the FIBA European Champions Cup 1971–72 season , when they were aided by American Willy Kirkland . Unfortunately, Ignis Varese , one of the giants of the era, proved an insurmountable obstacle for Panathinaikos. Over the next 4 seasons, Panathinaikos captured the Greek League championship once, in 1977, and also won their first Greek Cup in 1979. They acquired Memos Ioannou in 1974, and Greek-American David Stergakos in 1979 (a player that would contribute greatly to

6996-498: The greatest basketball players of his era) in their ranks. In 1969, the conquest of the Greek League championship was followed by the first European success of the club, the qualification to the semifinals of the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1968–69 season , where they were eliminated by Dinamo Tbilisi . The next year, 1970, PAO was the first Greek basketball team to use a foreign player ( Craig Greenwood ) in

7102-422: The gymnastics competition at the 2004 Olympics . It seats up to 19,443 for basketball games, which includes 300 seats for media members, and 189 seats for VIPs. A large scale arena renovation was completed in 2004, for the 2004 Summer Olympics . The arena was used for artistic gymnastics and trampolining , and also hosted the finals of the basketball matches at the 2004 Summer Olympics . Renovation of

7208-508: The help of great athletes Faidon Matthaiou (considered the Patriarch of Greek basketball) and Nikos Milas . In 1954, the club would repeat the success, however the next five years would prove fruitless, and the club, despite its strength, would have to be renewed. In 1961, Panathinaikos won the Greek League championship with new leaders Georgios Vassilakopoulos , Stelios Tavoularis and Petros Panagiotarakos . In 1962, Panathinaikos made

7314-449: The language show both conservative and innovative tendencies across the entire attestation of the language from the ancient to the modern period. The division into conventional periods is, as with all such periodizations, relatively arbitrary, especially because, in all periods, Ancient Greek has enjoyed high prestige, and the literate borrowed heavily from it. Across its history, the syllabic structure of Greek has varied little: Greek shows

7420-467: The late 15th century BC, was the first script used to write Greek. It is basically a syllabary , which was finally deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s (its precursor, Linear A , has not been deciphered and most likely encodes a non-Greek language). The language of the Linear B texts, Mycenaean Greek , is the earliest known form of Greek. Another similar system used to write

7526-407: The leader of the league, and were limited to a secondary role. Nevertheless, they remained a worthy adversary. Thus, in 1986, against all odds, they managed to eliminate powerful Aris from the Greek Cup at the semifinal stage. Then Panathinakos went on to beat Olympiacos in the final, and conquered what would be their last title until 1993. During the next 2 seasons, PAO would finish in 5th place In

7632-452: The many other countries of the Greek diaspora . Greek roots have been widely used for centuries and continue to be widely used to coin new words in other languages; Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of international scientific vocabulary . Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly earlier. The earliest written evidence is

7738-412: The maximum success of the team, led to the transformation of PAO, into a title-winning machine, that was not hampered by irreplaceable players, and this quality was widely recognized. At the 2007 EuroLeague Final Four , which was held on their home court of OAKA , in Athens, Panathinaikos became EuroLeague champions for the fourth time, after beating the defending champions at the time, CSKA Moscow , by

7844-465: The morphological changes also have their counterparts in the syntax, and there are also significant differences between the syntax of the ancient and that of the modern form of the language . Ancient Greek made great use of participial constructions and of constructions involving the infinitive, and the modern variety lacks the infinitive entirely (employing a raft of new periphrastic constructions instead) and uses participles more restrictively. The loss of

7950-475: The most successful basketball club in Greek basketball's history , and one of the most successful in European basketball , creating its own dynasty . They have won seven EuroLeague Championships , forty Greek Basket League Championships , twenty Greek Cups , one Intercontinental Cup , one Greek Super Cup and two Triple Crowns . They also hold the record for most consecutive Greek League titles, as they are

8056-455: The next two years, Antonio Davis , who later made a great career in the NBA, replaced Jones , as the leader of the team. At this point in time, Panathinaikos had also acquired some of the most talented young Greek players ( Fragiskos Alvertis , Nikos Oikonomou and Christos Myriounis ), but that did not stop them from experiencing the worst period in the history of the club, as they finished 7th in

8162-487: The only team in Europe to finish the regular season of their domestic championship undefeated. They remained undefeated until the finals, where they met Olympiacos again, and won the series once more with 3–2. Despite the difficulties that followed Obradović's departure and the changes in the team's roster and the team's finances, Panathinaikos is the only team in Europe that manages to win at least one title every season, for 27 consecutive seasons, since 1996. After two and

8268-679: The only team to have won nine consecutive championships (2003–2011), as well as for the most consecutive Greek Basketball Cup titles, winning six from 2012 to 2017. Panathinaikos counts one more championship that took place in 1921 and was organized by the YMCA . It is however not recognized by the Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association , as it was before the creation of the Hellenic Basketball Federation . The team plays its home games in

8374-643: The regions of Apulia and Calabria in Italy. In the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages , Greek is protected and promoted officially as a regional and minority language in Armenia, Hungary , Romania, and Ukraine. It is recognized as a minority language and protected in Turkey by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne . The phonology , morphology , syntax , and vocabulary of

8480-586: The repeat, and was again the Greek League champion. That was also the year that PAO took part for the first time in a European-wide competition, as they faced Hapoel Tel Aviv in the FIBA European Champions Cup 1961–62 season . On 23 November 1963, Panathinaikos beat Olympiacos , by a score of 90–48, in the Mantellos Cup, a tournament that was later replaced by the Greek Cup, which made its first appearance in 1976. In 1967, Panathinaikos were crowned Greek League champions, with Giorgos Kolokithas (one of

8586-461: The same time, as well as the deal that made OPAP , Greece's biggest betting firm, the team's main sponsor. The appointment of Xavi Pascual as the team's head coach for three years, started a new era for the club. The next two seasons, 2016/17 and 2017/18, Panathinaikos with coach Xavi Pascual managed to win two back-to-back Greek Basket League Championships against Olympiacos, and the 2017 Greek Basketball Cup against Aris. They also made it to

8692-489: The season, Panathinaikos was crowned 1996 FIBA Intercontinental Cup champion, by prevailing by 2–1 wins in a 3-game series over Olimpia of Venado Tuerto , the South American League champions. Unfortunately, the restructuring of the team failed, and Panathinaikos failed to participate in the 1997 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four , in order to defend their European title. Moreover, they finished in 5th place in

8798-437: The stressed vowel; the so-called breathing marks ( rough and smooth breathing ), originally used to signal presence or absence of word-initial /h/; and the diaeresis , used to mark the full syllabic value of a vowel that would otherwise be read as part of a diphthong. These marks were introduced during the course of the Hellenistic period. Actual usage of the grave in handwriting saw a rapid decline in favor of uniform usage of

8904-486: The successful management of former long-time presidents Pavlos Giannakopoulos and Thanasis Giannakopoulos , as well as the long-time guidance of the most successful coach in EuroLeague history, Željko Obradović , turned Panathinaikos into the most successful team in Europe over the last two-and-a-half decades. Panathinaikos is the only team on the European continent to win as many as seven EuroLeague titles ( 1996 , 2000 , 2002 , 2007 , 2009 , 2011 and 2024 ), since

9010-454: The team as one of the strongest in the history of European club basketball. The first thing that Obradović did, was to adapt the team to Dejan Bodiroga , who was the absolute leader of Panathinaikos. As a result of the success of his strategy, PAO managed to capture 2 EuroLeague titles ( 2000 , 2002 ,) after 3 consecutive EuroLeague Finals appearances (2000–2002), and also won 3 consecutive Greek League championships (1999–2001). In 2000, at

9116-517: The team in the coming years). In the five years that followed, Panathinaikos won 4 Greek League championships (1980, 1981, 1982, 1984) and two Greek Cups (1982, 1983). More specifically, in 1982, while coached by Kostas Politis , Panathinaikos succeeded in winning their first Greek double, as well as placing 6th in the FIBA European Champions Cup 1981–82 season . During that season's group stage, Panathinaikos finished ahead of

9222-482: The team was dreamy, as on 8 October 2015, Panathinaikos beat and eliminated Olympiacos , in an away match for the Greek Basketball Cup , by a score of 64–70. On 6 March 2016, Panathinaikos won the Greek Cup for the 17th time in the club's history, and for the 5th straight season, with a record score of 101–52 against the Greek 2nd Division club, Faros Keratsiniou . On 19 April 2016, Sasha Đjorđjević

9328-401: The team's legends and former players Dimitris Diamantidis and Fragiskos Alvertis , alongside former CEO Takis Triantopoulos. Meanwhile, George Vovoras was named head coach for the difficult upcoming season. After almost seven months, and due to the team's poor performance, Panathinaikos and coach Vovoras parted ways, on January 4, 2021. Kostas Charalampidis served as an interim coach for

9434-403: The team, Dimitris Giannakopoulos , held a press conference where he announced that he won't longer be involved with Panathinaikos, and that the club is up for sale for a price of 25 million euros. As a result of this, a new -and unusual- era began for the Greens, meaning that the team had to be rebuilt and operated based on the balance sheet, and that players with huge contracts couldn't stay with

9540-424: The team, starting with the withdrawal of Bodiroga, making a renewal of the team's roster an imperative. 2002–03 was the year that Obradović used to restructure Panathinaikos, and return them to the top of Greece. He emphatically achieved this objective by leading the team to 9 straight Greek League championships (2003–11), with 6 doubles in Greece, and 2 triple crowns (i.e. Greek double plus EuroLeague champions) in

9646-630: The top American players that ever played in Europe. The head coach of the team was Božidar Maljković . The former, along with Giannakis , Vranković , Alvertis , and Patavoukas , comprised a very experienced team, which, in 1996, managed an unprecedented success for Greek basketball. Indeed, in April 1996, at the Paris Final Four , Panathinaikos became the first Greek team to lift the FIBA European League championship (now called

9752-503: The years 1996–98, Panathinaikos fulfilled all of their objectives by winning the FIBA European League championship, the FIBA Intercontinental Cup and the Greek League championship (in that order). In 1996, the expectations of the team had risen a lot, as it was imperative for Panathinaikos to obtain a significant title. In the summer of 1995, they acquired the nine-time NBA All-Star , Dominique Wilkins , one of

9858-574: Was a distinct dialect of Greek itself. Aside from the Macedonian question, current consensus regards Phrygian as the closest relative of Greek, since they share a number of phonological, morphological and lexical isoglosses , with some being exclusive between them. Scholars have proposed a Graeco-Phrygian subgroup out of which Greek and Phrygian originated. Among living languages, some Indo-Europeanists suggest that Greek may be most closely related to Armenian (see Graeco-Armenian ) or

9964-406: Was also announced that the team would go to the Greek League Finals under the guidance of the club's legend, Fragiskos Alvertis , who would serve as an interim caretaker coach. After the conquest of another Greek double by beating Olympiacos, Panathinaikos announced the recruitment of Duško Ivanović , to be their new head coach. On 5 April 2015, Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras , in the final of

10070-557: Was also used in Ancient Greek. Greek has occasionally been written in the Latin script , especially in areas under Venetian rule or by Greek Catholics . The term Frankolevantinika / Φραγκολεβαντίνικα applies when the Latin script is used to write Greek in the cultural ambit of Catholicism (because Frankos / Φράγκος is an older Greek term for West-European dating to when most of (Roman Catholic Christian) West Europe

10176-556: Was by far the most widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world . It eventually became the official language of the Byzantine Empire and developed into Medieval Greek . In its modern form , Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union . It is spoken by at least 13.5 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Turkey , and

10282-925: Was held in Athens , after Greece's victory at the Song Contest in 2005. There were 15,000 seats available for spectators, both for the semifinal and the grand final. Some of the entertainers who have performed at the arena include Bryan Adams , Maluma , Slayer , Rotting Christ , Pearl Jam , Enrique Iglesias , Depeche Mode , Jennifer Lopez , Björk , Beyoncé , Slayer , Roger Waters , Aloha from Hell , Tokio Hotel , Helena Paparizou , Sakis Rouvas and Anna Vissi . 38°02′16″N 23°47′05″E  /  38.037862°N 23.784676°E  / 38.037862; 23.784676 Panathinaikos B.C. Panathinaikos B.C. ( Greek : ΚΑΕ Παναθηναϊκός ), also known simply as Panathinaikos , currently also known as Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens for sponsorship reasons,

10388-438: Was made when Panathinaikos announced that they had signed Chinese basketball player Shang Ping . This deal made Panathinaikos the first European club to have a Chinese player on its roster. On 12 September 2013, Panathinaikos landed at the airport of Guangzhou , becoming the first European team to make a trip to China via airline. On 13 September 2013, Panathinaikos wrote European history once again, in less than two days, becoming

10494-485: Was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary . The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin , Cyrillic , Coptic , Gothic , and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer , ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in

10600-507: Was replaced by Argyris Pedoulakis , who once again took over the team's head coaching position. Despite that, the team lost against Olympiacos in the finals of the Greek League, with a 1–3 series loss. With the retirement of Dimitris Diamantidis , Panathinaikos turned over to a new page in the club's history. This led the team to increase its budget, and to obtain players such as Mike James , K.C. Rivers , Chris Singleton , and Ioannis Bourousis . Many sponsorship deals were also achieved at

10706-655: Was still unknown in Greece. During that period Giorgos Kalafatis with other athletes participated in the Inter-Allied Games in Paris and attended basketball games between the Allies of World War I . When he later returned to Greece with the necessary equipment, he set up the Panathinaikos basketball club, led by Apostolos Nikolaidis . In 1919, PAO played their first match against X.A.N. Thessaloniki (YMCA), another club also pioneer of basketball in Greece,

10812-417: Was the highest finish in the club's history. Although they did not manage to win the title. The 1994–95 season started with the best conditions, as the club acquired Panagiotis Giannakis and Žarko Paspalj . PAO was again the favourite for all domestic titles. The club started by eliminating Olympiacos from the Greek Cup in a very tough game, before the start of the Greek League championship. However, after

10918-580: Was under the control of the Frankish Empire ). Frankochiotika / Φραγκοχιώτικα (meaning 'Catholic Chiot') alludes to the significant presence of Catholic missionaries based on the island of Chios . Additionally, the term Greeklish is often used when the Greek language is written in a Latin script in online communications. The Latin script is nowadays used by the Greek-speaking communities of Southern Italy . The Yevanic dialect

11024-637: Was used for literary and official purposes in the newly formed Greek state. In 1976, Dimotiki was declared the official language of Greece, after having incorporated features of Katharevousa and thus giving birth to Standard Modern Greek , used today for all official purposes and in education . The historical unity and continuing identity between the various stages of the Greek language are often emphasized. Although Greek has undergone morphological and phonological changes comparable to those seen in other languages, never since classical antiquity has its cultural, literary, and orthographic tradition been interrupted to

11130-542: Was voted the top coach, with 1,399 votes. At the 2011 EuroLeague Final Four in Barcelona , Panathinaikos, after a great performance by Calathes in the semifinal against Montepaschi Siena (17 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals), won 77–69, and reached the EuroLeague Final against Maccabi Tel Aviv . In the final, the "Great Club" won its sixth EuroLeague title, by holding off Maccabi, by a score of 78–70. After

11236-673: Was written by Romaniote and Constantinopolitan Karaite Jews using the Hebrew Alphabet . In a tradition, that in modern time, has come to be known as Greek Aljamiado , some Greek Muslims from Crete wrote their Cretan Greek in the Arabic alphabet . The same happened among Epirote Muslims in Ioannina . This also happened among Arabic-speaking Byzantine rite Christians in the Levant ( Lebanon , Palestine, and Syria ). This usage

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