THE CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS OF MODERN GREECE
The practices of singing the Kalanta and the elaborate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day repasts, based on recipes handed down from Byzantine times, remain alive, today, among Greeks in Greece, immigrants in the Diaspora, and their children and grandchildren. The singing of the Kalanta, the preparation, decoration, and serving of special breads for Christmas (Christopsomon/Χριστόψωμον; Christmas bread) and for the First of January (Vasilopita/Βασιλόπιτα; bread commemorating St. Basil), together with other traditions specific to certain geographic regions of Greece, form the backbone of the Christmas and Dodecahemeron traditions.
- Christmas in modern Greece and the Greek Diaspora
- The Christmas Traditions of Modern Greece
- Christmas as a Christian Feast
- The Origins of Greek Christmas Traditions
- Traditions of the Dodecahemeron in Byzantium
- Common Folk Practices and Traditions-Christmas
- Greek New Year's Tradititions
- Common Folk Practices and Traditions-New Year's Day
- The Traditional Greek Dodecahemeron Kalanta
- Traditional Regional Kalanta of the Dodecahemeron
- Traditional Christmas and New Year's Day Recipes