Ardo Kreek

Ardo Kreek (born 7 August 1986) is an Estonian volleyball player currently playing for Paris Volley in France. He is 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) tall, 95 kg (209 lbs.), and playes at the middle blocker position.

Club career

Kreek was born in Tallinn and started his career in his hometown club Sylvester Tallinn at the age of 17. In 2006 he moved to Estonian powerhouse VK Selver Tallinn where he played for the next three years. With Selver he won the Estonian Championship, the Estonian Cup and the Schenker League title twice. Selver and Kreek also reached to CEV Challenge Cup quarterfinals in 2008.

In the beginning of 2009 Kreek played half a season in France, for Rennes Volley 35. In September 2009 he moved to Poland and signed with PlusLiga top team Asseco Resovia Rzeszów. He left the team in December and joined another Polish team Jadar Radom where he played the rest of the 2009–10 season. Kreek stayed in Poland for the next two seasons playing in the AZS Politechnika Warszawska team. With Politechnika he reached the CEV Challenge Cup finals in 2012 where they lost to another Polish team AZS Częstochowa in the golden set.

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Ardo

Ardo (or Ardonus, possibly short for Ardabastus, Ardabast) (died 720/721) is attested as the last of all Visigothic kings of Hispania, reigning from 713 or, more probably 714, until his death. The Visigothic kingdom was already severely reduced in power and area at the time he succeeded Achila II, and his dominions probably didn't extend beyond Septimania and present-day Catalonia, due to the Arab conquests of the previous three years.

Ardo is only recorded in one Visigothic regnal list as reigning for seven years. As of 716 the Arabs crossed over the Pyrenees and invaded Narbonensis, the last province under Gothic control. Over the next three years Ardo probably defended what remained of the Visigothic kingdom and he "may have gone down fighting like his predecessor" after the Arabs took Narbonne and before they conquered all that remained of the old kingdom.

References

Thompson, E. A. The Goths in Spain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

Collins, Roger. The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–97. Blackwell Publishing, 1989.

Ardo (given name)

Ardo may refer to:

Ardo (died 720/721), Visigothic king

Ardo Arusaar (born 1988), Estonian wrestler

Ardo Hansson (born 1958), Estonian economist

Ardo Kreek (born 1986), Estonian volleyball player

Ardo Smaragdus (died 843), French hagiographer

Aramean Democratic Organization

Aramean Democratic Organization (Syriac: ܛܘܟܣܐ ܐܪܡܝܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ‎) (Arabic: التنظيم الآرامي الديمقراطي At-Tanzim al-Arami al-Dimoqraty‎) also known as ArDO, was founded in 1988 and is a Syriac Aramean political party in Lebanon. The Aramean Democratic Organization's goal is to reestablish Aramean independence and reconstituting the Aramean Nation by reclaiming the heartland of the ancient ancestral homeland most of which lies within today's Syria.

Aim

To establish an independent democratic Aramean state on the land of Aram (within today's central Syria) with Lebanon as a point of departure.

Objectives

To build an opinion, on national as well as on international level, for the Aramean cause.

To work for recapture the stolen geographical, historical and cultural rights of the Aramean people.

Through political and mass media efforts, work for the foundation of an Aramean land in the historical homeland.

To raise awareness regarding preservation of the Aramean linguistic, literary and cultural heritage from the systematic and governamental organized Arabization, Turkification, Kurdification, Iranization and Islamisation.