Turkish Escape to Greece - Dedeağaç, İskeçe, Selanik, & Taşöz

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8-15. July 2024. Greece.
Once the Turkish police told me I couldn't drive for 6 months, I had no choice but to spend my summer in Greece (Ελλάδα)!
Join me on my escape from Turkey with my getaway driver Murat Evgin, who spends the first week with me, refusing to call the places we visited by their Greek names: Alexandroupoli (Αλεξανδρούπολη), Xanthi (Ξάνθη), Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), and the island of Thasos (Θάσος).
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@ΕυάγγελοςΤζουτζούκης Месяц назад

This is not the house where Kemal was born. This is Turkish propaganda. Kemal was born in a village near Lagada called Chrysavgi.

@Maria-k5v3n 2 месяца назад

OK my friends, Have fun Alexandroupolis by the way was NOT founded by ottoman empire

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

If what you’re saying is true, someone needs to update Encyclopedia Britannica, which indicates the city was founded by the Turks in 1860

@ΑστεριοςΣκοδρας 2 месяца назад

@@FastEddieDice by Russian fishermen. And you are a lover of Turkey. Now move on!

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

I’m so sorry this is happening to you!

@antonisxenos1053 Месяц назад

Actually, I looked it up in Wikipedia, it was.

@eftihiaxiruhaki4098 Месяц назад

It was founded as a modern city by fisherman from three thracian villages in 1875. Between 1877-1878 during the Russian Turkish war it was occupied by Russian troops. At that time, the city centre was designed. Later on, the place was occupied by Bulgarians. In antiquity the Egnatia road of the Romans passed thru here. History is not studied by reading a single page. The place was, also, inhabited in the iron age by a thracian tribe, the Ciconians, neighbours of the famous Odryssians.

@chris1972angel1 2 месяца назад

There's no place called "dedeagac" in Greece .

@marsupiotupak Месяц назад

Smesan si covece. Nisu Grci dosli u Severnu Grcku i promenili postojece otomanske i turske nazive mesta i gradova vec je obrnuto bio slucaj. Tako je bio slucaj i sa Srbijom. Hvala bogu da su do pocetka 20. veka vraceni izvorni grcki, bugarski i srpski toponimi. Pozdrav

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

I only know the Greeks came up with the name Alexandroupoli to replace the original Turkish name

@georgekokkinakis1001 2 месяца назад

Alexandroupolis was not founded by the Ottoman empire. It bears the name of Alexander the Great Englishman. So what that tells you?

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

It tells me you don’t know who the Greeks renamed the town after in 1920. King Alexander I visited, and it was renamed Alexandroupoli from Dedeağaç (the name the Ottomans gave it when they founded the town)

@Hydrogen-Hyperoxide 2 месяца назад

@@FastEddieDice Alexandroupolis existed in antiquity with the ancient name Sali, which was founded by the Maronites. The modern city was founded in the middle of the 19th century by fishermen from Ainos and the villages of Makri and Maroneia, making it known as Dedeağaç (Turkish: Dedeağaç)... -The name was given by the Turks (it makes sense, Greece was under Ottoman occupation). The founders, however, were Greeks.

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

@@Hydrogen-Hyperoxide I get your point, but it’s a stretch. The ancient city of Sale was nearby Dedeağaç, but of course abandoned for centuries

@Hydrogen-Hyperoxide 2 месяца назад

@@FastEddieDice Whether Ancient or new, Greeks founded it. I also mentioned the 3 villages whose residents founded Alexandroupolis - Dedeağaç. You didn't read the whole answer.

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

The ethnicity doesn’t matter; point is that the city was founded / settled under the Ottoman Empire. But, if ethnicity is the discussion, rumor has it the fishermen were Russian

@ΜιλτιάδηςΜπαλτατζής 2 месяца назад

I am from trapezunda ,and Constantinople is greek city ☦️🇬🇷

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

I’m sorry this is happening to you

@pavlosstaios6954 Месяц назад

Both Istanbul and Constantinople are Greek words. Samothraki is a very beautiful island, worth visiting.

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

Driving to Samothraki now

@pavlosstaios6954 Месяц назад

Don't forget to visit the waterfall and the pond! Also, prepare yourselves to eat a lot of goat meat!

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

Goat meat has been illegal here past weeks. Next week goat is back, per rumor around the island

@HugoEco 2 месяца назад

Hey i am Greek,I like your mentality,if you pass nearby Platamon or larisa,send me message to have a beer together.

@helendimakakos9708 2 месяца назад

Go back to Turkia ,read some history and then come back,Alexanroupolis is a Greek city!

@ΜιλτιάδηςΜπαλτατζής 2 месяца назад

Constantinople ☦️ is greek

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

I’m sorry this is happening to you

@ΑστεριοςΣκοδρας 2 месяца назад

@@FastEddieDice you are a paid ironic little...it! 😊

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

DOT DOT DOT

@qwinegp2000 2 месяца назад

I salute you I am from Thessaloniki and enjoy your uploads

@PAULME_CH 2 месяца назад

Alexandropolis, as the name says, alexandro polis. It's a completely Greek name, and it says Alexander city. So it's not an Ottoman Empire founded city, but a city founded by Alexander the Great. He gave his name to the city.

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

City’s new name has nothing to do with Alexander the Great. Dedeağaç was renamed in 1920 by the Greeks to honor a visit by King Alexander I of Greece

@andim197 2 месяца назад

As a greek, I would like to contribute the conversation with some facts. The origin of the greek name of the city came from the King Alexandros I who visited the city after its liberation of the ottoman rule in 1920 and the local authorities decided to rename the city (to Alexandroupolis/Alexandroupoli = city of Alexandros), in his honor. At that time, Greece was a kingdom and King Alexandros I ruled the country for a very short period of time before he died by a monkey bite. However, the founders of the city were greeks at the antiquity era. Its ancient name was Sali (Σάλη))

@PAULME_CH 2 месяца назад

@andim197 You are actually right. I was wrong, as i targeted to the name, and wrongly thought that it was from Alexander the Great, (like Alexandria in Egypt) . But in this case it was from King Alexander, as you said.

@ErisstheGoddessofmanhwas 2 месяца назад

Omg for 100 euro this as a palace. And you are lucky to have that in summer season.

@antonisxenos1053 Месяц назад

I enjoyed your humorous irreverent presentation. A great advert for Greece.

@Somali1971 2 месяца назад

You and Murat are having a great time and enjoying yourselves to the fullest extent.

@katherinesam3626 5 дней назад

Αs for us, my friend, Constantinople sounds much better than Istanbul, as well as Smyrna from Izmir, Aydinion from Aydin, Trapezounda from Macka, Gokceada from Imbros etc !

@FastEddieDice 4 дня назад

as my turkish friend said in the beginning, defending his saying "dedeağaç" to the border guard, "but they don't say istanbul. they say constantinople!"

@agarwaengrc 2 месяца назад

What's all this hangup with the names? Baklava is obviously Arab. Nobody calls strained yogurt "Greek yogurt" in Greece. Yogurt in general existed in the Balkans since the ancient times (B.C.), and I doubt it's specific to Greece. All the towns that you're mentioning Turkish names for, isn't this just cherry picking? obviously the whole of Turkey for example didn't have a single "Turkish named town" at one point, since there were no Turks there till around 1040. And there were obviously no Greeks there before the Ionian settlements of 500B.C. When does this end exactly?

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

How fascinating. Thank you!

@ErisstheGoddessofmanhwas 2 месяца назад

Well we call Xoriatiki the Greek salad , that doesn't mean outside the country know that or should call it that way .

@geogeo2299 Месяц назад

LoL there were Greeks in Asia Minor since long before 500BC. The Ionian migration started during the Bronze Age, and it succeeded the Aeolian migration, which succeeded other migrations - remember the Troyans.

@ΚώσταςΖωγράφος-θ5σ Месяц назад

Ανδριανουπολη.... Χτίστηκε την ίδια περίοδο με την Αλεξανδρουπολη.... (Όλα Ελλάδα)

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

Incorrect. Dedeağaç (new name Alexandroupoli) was founded 1800s under the Ottoman Empire, where as Adrianopolis (Edirne) was founded by Roman emperor Hadrian on the site of Orestias around 1st century AD

@SOLEN-zm1vd 2 месяца назад

Those cookies are amazing …nothing like you get in Buyukada …. Enjoy

@johnavlakiotis 22 дня назад

@@SOLEN-zm1vd Πρίγκηπος (Pringipos) mongol lady

@JIMY45GR Месяц назад

gyro is my favorite..please leave for me

@lookkg381 2 месяца назад

That was pure fun my guy, amazing respectful attitude, unmatched sense of humor (that beer joke was the epitomy of comedy) and last but not least a huge thanks for the camera skills when it mattered the most ;-) Please come again with more turkish friends next time!

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

Epitome of Greek hospitality. Let others learn from you! I will invite more Turks to join, per request :)

@g.c4855 2 месяца назад

Thanks for visiting ATATURK’s house…

@SOLEN-zm1vd 2 месяца назад

You got the Marble ….ahahhhahhahahhhhaaaaaaaa Youre good 😜

@effievassiliadis6503 2 месяца назад

Too bad you must read more about history about Alexandroupoli because some issues are not to be taken lightly. Not all made oe invented by Ottoman empire as you love to say.Vergina is a historic place of Alexander the Great.

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

I’m in Vergina now. This town is certainly related to Philip II & Alexander the Great. No one should feel insulted by history. Amazing how many Greeks think that Alexandroupoli’s new name is somehow related to Alexander the Great

@effievassiliadis6503 2 месяца назад

@@FastEddieDice Every city in Greece that begins with Alexandria ( the ending Polis means city in Greek )is named after Alexander the Great. Even the city in Egypt named Alexandria is to honor him.

@FastEddieDice 2 месяца назад

Incorrect. Greeks renamed Dedeağaç in honor of a 1920 visit by King Alexander I, shortly before he was killed by a monkey. The city has nothing to do with Alexander the Great

@effievassiliadis6503 2 месяца назад

@@FastEddieDice from whom did king Alexander got his name?!

@effievassiliadis6503 Месяц назад

@@FastEddieDice By stop being ironic and egocentric you can improve yourself

@coolfinetime Месяц назад

You deserve more subscribers

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

Mom? That you?

@adam1959 Месяц назад

The strait of Dardanelles is the entrance to Bosporus

@Harun-oq2by 2 месяца назад

I was wondering why you keep calling him "Borat", until I realized it was Murat :)

@marianikolopoulou2986 Месяц назад

The beer is called...veh..ryi..na

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

Disappointing

@xtra8dj 2 месяца назад

Oh, bagpiper, my reaction would be as when I see a street pantomime ... attack .....

@katara3619 2 месяца назад

👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇷🇹🇷 greetings from 🇬🇷Ellada

@ΜιλτιάδηςΜπαλτατζής 2 месяца назад

Παρτα 🖐

@ELLAS1234 Месяц назад

Alexandroupolis is the ancient city of Sali and it was colonized by the Samothraces, it was not built by the Ottomans

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

I believe you’re suggesting that 3,000 years ago some people lived nearby and therefore Dedeağaç wasn’t founded under the Ottomans. Sali was long gone when Dedeağaç was settled. It was buried abandoned stones, nearby what is now named Alexandroupoli

@ELLAS1234 Месяц назад

@@FastEddieDice its the same city first was built by ancients greek sali was tha name , there was 2-3 citys there and all dogether was called peraia , the ottomans build in the ancient ruins of this town

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

Fascinating. Thanks so much! Now I know it’s impossible to found a city if you’re building it near abandoned buried rock from thousands of years ago

@adam1959 Месяц назад

Alexandroupolis is not at the entrance of Bosporus, open a map before talking

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

@@adam1959 I’m flying to China from New York. YOU: “New York is not at the entrance of China, open a map before talking”

@alial-yunani Месяц назад

Bira içmek haramdır.

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

How fascinating. Thank you so much!

@alanfrenchfrei1357 Месяц назад

finally mystery solved after centuries of debate, baklava isnt greek

@FastEddieDice Месяц назад

Glad I could help you!

@giolybe4223 25 дней назад

You are going to attract lots of negative comments calling Greek cities with a turkish name or shit towns, be carefull Eddie here are the Balkans not Ohio.

@FastEddieDice 25 дней назад

Been living in the Balkans for 12 years. What happens in Ohio?! Never been

@giolybe4223 24 дня назад

@@FastEddieDice Read the first part of my comment that you avoided replying and then i ll tell you what happens in Ohio ;)