Event
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
18 May 2006 – 20 May 2006 · 37.97° N, 23.72° E
What the records say
- When
- 18 May 2006 – 20 May 2006
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 37.97° N, 23.72° E
- Description
- The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 takes place in Athens, Greece, and is won by Finnish band entrant Lordi with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah".
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Eurovision Song Contest 2006.
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
International song competition
The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of a semi-final on 18 May and a final on 20 May 2006, held at the O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, and presented by Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2006 Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması, Yunanistan'ın başkenti Atina'da düzenlendi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die finnische Gruppe Lordi siegt beim Eurovision Song Contest 2006”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Lordi remporte le Concours Eurovision de la chanson 2006 à Athènes, en Grèce”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Lordi gana la LI edición del festival de Eurovisión con la canción Hard Rock Hallelujah para Finlandia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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