The Bank of Greece (Greek: Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος, short ΤτΕ) is the national central bank of Greece, located in Athens on Panepistimiou Street, with several branches across the country. Founded in 1927. Its operations started officially in 1928.
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“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
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“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
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