Tsiknopempti – the Orthodox equivalent of “Fat Thursday”– is being celebrated on Thursday, March 3, throughout Greece and Cyprus, and by expatriate Greeks around the world who commemorate the mid-point of the three-week carnival season before Lent. The “Thursday of the smoke from grilled (or roasted) meats”, the exact meaning of the term in Greek, […]
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