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National anthem
  
"Hymn to Liberty"

Kamilierikos

Music awards
  
Arion Awards MAD Video Music Awards Pop Corn Music Awards

Music charts
  
Greek Albums Chart Foreign Albums Chart Singles Chart

Music festivals
  
Athens Festival Epidaurus Festival Olympus Festival Thessaloniki Song Festival

Music media
  
Difono MAD TV (MAD World, Blue) MTV Greece

Related areas
  
Cyprus, Pontus, Constantinople, South Italy

Kamilierikos (Greek: καμηλιέρικος χορός) or kamilieriko, is a kind of a Greek traditional dance, similar to fast zeibekiko and antikristos. Like zeibekiko, Kamilierikos is again in "9/8" signature and was danced by imprisoned rebetes. Riders of the camels (καμηλιέρηδες) used to dance it as well. Today, kamilierikos is very widespread in rebetiko and laiko music traditions.

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Kamilierikos Wikipedia