The club's historic nickname is gialloblu ( from the club colors of yellow and blue ) although throughout Italian football the team recognised by most fans as " Gialloblu " are the original team from Verona – " Hellas Verona ".

The " flying donkeys " nickname was originally a derogatory term from a match chant sung by fans from crosstown rivals Hellas Verona, which said that " donkeys would fly before Chievo made it to Serie A ".

However, with later successes by Chievo and contemporaneous Serie B and Serie C1 struggles for Hellas Verona, Chievo fans have now largely embraced the nickname as a badge of honour.

Hellas Verona Football Club ( commonly known simply as Verona, or Hellas within the city of Verona itself ) is a professional Italian association football team, based in Verona, Veneto.

In 1919, following a return to activity after a four year suspension of all football competition in Italy during World War I the team merged with city rival Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona.

Between 1926 and 1929 the elite " Campionato Nazionale " assimilated the top sides from the various regional groups and Hellas Verona joined the privileged teams, yet struggled to remain competitive.

Still an amateur team, Hellas merged with two city rivals, Bentegodi and Scaligera, to form AC Verona.

After first being promoted to Serie A for one season in 1957 – 58, in 1959 the team merged with another city rival ( called Hellas ) and commemorated its beginnings by changing its name to Hellas Verona AC.

After a year in Serie B Hellas Verona returned to Serie A.

However, in their first ever final in the competition Hellas Verona were trounced 4 – 0 by Napoli.

After a 2 – 0 home victory, Hellas Verona travelled to Turin to play Juventus but were defeated 3 – 0 after extra time.

Hellas Verona finished the year with a 15 – 13 – 2 record and 43 points, 4 points ahead of

In 1986 Hellas Verona AC were eliminated from the European Cup by fellow Serie A side Juventus F. C.

In 1995 the name was officially changed back to Hellas Verona FC.

Since it was his long-standing advocacy of Athenian naval power which enabled the Allied fleet to fight at all, and it was his stratagem that brought about the Battle of Salamis, it is probably not an exaggeration to say, as Plutarch does, that Themistocles " is thought to have been the man most instrumental in achieving the salvation of Hellas ".

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to have been part of Hellas and the region where the Hellenes originated.

Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to have been part of Hellas and the region where the Hellenes originated.

Despite the success of Nova, and the launch of Hellas SAT, cable TV has been slow to follow, only existing on a local level in some communities around Greece until recently, when companies such as OnTelecoms have launched cable ( IPTV ) platforms.

Historically, they have been known as South Melbourne Hellas, a tribute to the migrant Greek founders of the club and traditionally played at Middle Park.

: in all Hellas to have won this crown.

It follows the exploits of the 400-year-old vampire John Shade, whose comfortable life in the Hellas crater on Mars is disrupted when he is forced to become part of a complex conspiracy to protect the Janglers, a sub-species of humans who have replaced parts of their brains with technology.

Because Alba Mons lies antipodal to the Hellas impact basin, a few researchers have conjectured that the volcano ’ s formation may have been related to crustal weakening from the Hellas impact, which produced strong seismic waves that focused on the opposite side of the planet.

SLP members have also been prominent in a campaign at the Hellas Kagran football club against Martin Graf, a senior figure in the far-right FPÖ party, who was accused of using the training facilities for a party election rally.

Kalem wrote of her “ unforgettable ” portrayal of Iphigenia: “... as Buxton reaches the heartbreaking conclusion that the one life she has to give for Hellas is the noblest life to have lived, she radiates a great and unforgettable purity of spirit .”

This theory is based on Aristotle's comments in Meteorologica where he places Ancient Hellas in Epirus between Dodona and the Achelous river, where in his opinion the great deluge of Deucalion must have occurred.

He places Ancient Hellas in the region of Achelous river around Dodona where in his opinion the great deluge of Deucalion must have occurred.

Nicephorus Blemmydes referred to the Byzantine emperors as Hellenes, and Theodore Alanias wrote in a letter to his brother that " the homeland may have been captured, but Hellas still exists within every wise man ".

From 1962 until 1976 the league was largely dominated by South Melbourne Hellas and Footscray JUST, who won 11 titles between them.

The emergence of Chievo on the Serie A stage in recent years has split the city into two smaller groups of archrival fans, both very loyal to their respective cause, these days with Chievo constantly battling to survive relegation in Serie A, and Hellas Verona playing to a lower division, after having won a scudetto in 1985.

During these first few years Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing mainly at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit.

In this period Hellas was one of the founding teams of the early league and often among its top final contenders.

Ta Nea, advertisements for Fix Hellas, one of the four well-known brands of Greek beer, characters are drinking Alpha and Fix beers through the movie, Greek can be heard in the background and there is a picture of Aliki Vougiouklaki, a famous Greek actress, in one of the taverns ) that it is Greece in the early 1960s.

" Taking the love god as the mediator of their emotions for each other, they sailed together as it were on the same vessel of life ... nor did they restrict their affectionate friendship to the limits of Hellas .... as soon as they set foot on the land of the Tauride, the Fury of matricides was there to welcome the strangers, and, when the natives stood around them, the one was struck to the ground by his usual madness and lay there, but Pylades ' did wipe away the foam and tend his frame and shelter him with a fine well-woven robe ,' thus showing the feelings not merely of a lover, but also of a father.

Herodotus ( Histories 2: 54 – 57 ) was told by priests at Egyptian Thebes in the 5th century BCE " that two priestesses had been carried away from Thebes by Phoenicians ; one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya, the other in Hellas ; these women, they said, were the first founders of places of divination in the aforesaid countries.

" Taking the love god as the mediator of their emotions for each other, they sailed together as it were on the same vessel of life ... nor did they restrict their affectionate friendship to the limits of Hellas .... as soon as they set foot on the land of the Tauride, the Fury of matricides was there to welcome the strangers, and, when the natives stood around them, the one was struck to the ground by his usual madness and lay there, but Pylades ' did wipe away the foam and tend his frame and shelter him with a fine well-woven robe ,' thus showing the feelings not merely of a lover, but also of a father.

He was then appointed as the King of Argos and thus became one of the most powerful rulers of Hellas at such a young age.

Lysias lifted up his voice to denounce Dionysius as, next to Artaxerxes, the worst enemy of Hellas, and to impress upon the assembled Greeks that one of their foremost duties was to deliver Sicily from a hateful oppression.

Due to its size and its light coloring, which contrasts with the rest of the planet, Hellas Planitia was one of the first Martian features discovered from Earth by telescope.

In one modern characterization of both the argument and its rhetorical tone, " Strzygowski Hellas as a beautiful maiden who sold herself to an ' Old Semite ' to be kept as the jewel of his harem.

This synoecism was one of the primary causes of the kyklos in ancient Hellas.

Hellenic Petroleum operates three refineries in Greece, in Thessaloniki, Elefsina and Aspropyrgos, which account for 73 % of the refining capacity of the country ( the remaining 27 % belongs to Motor Oil Hellas ), and one in the Republic of Macedonia, the OKTA refinery, which is supplied by crude oil through pipelines from Thessaloniki and covers approximately 85 % of the country's needs.

He was loaned to Hellas Verona in 1989, but was one of the two A. S. Roma players ( the other being Andrea Carnevale ) suspended for a year in October 1990 after failing a doping test because an appetite suppressant he was taking at the time contained a banned substance.

As an exception, he mentions the War between Chalkidians and Eretrians, during which most of the rest of Hellas joined one of the warring parties:

Hierocles in his Synecdemus mentions Amfissa as one of the towns of the eparchy of Hellas within the Byzantine Empire, which was under the rule of the vice-consul of Athens.

Inaugurated as a state-of-the-art facility and as one of Italy's finest venues in 1963, the stadium appeared excessive for a team ( Hellas ) that had spent the best part of the previous 35 years in Serie B.