On August 11, 1996, a Berlin-to-Cyprus peace ride by motorcyclists from around Europe ended at…
HISTORY
Archeologists uncovered a 1,700-year-old statue of a female from the Hellenistic period in the ancient…
On July 29, 1982 Melina Mercouri, Minister of Culture and Sciences of Greece, addressed the…
Mikis Theodorakis was born on July 29 in 1925, on the Greek island of Chios.…
Beautiful Greek actress Tzeni Karezi was born on the 12th January 1932 and passed away…
Aliki Vougiouklaki, one of Greece’s all-time favourite entertainers, as her films captivated four generations and…
Alexander the Great, otherwise referred to as the “King of Kings” was born on July…
Manolis Bikakis – a Cretan-born hero of Cyprus. His story is not well known, but…
On July 20, 1974, at 5:20am, 40,000 Turkish troops landed and invaded northern Cyprus after…
The UEFA Euro 2004 Final was a historical match played on 4 July, 2004, at the Estadio da…
Stavros Spyros Niarchos, billionaire Greek shipping tycoon who spent much of his life battling his archrival Aristotle…
On this day in 1913 during the 2nd Balkan War, the Greek Army liberated and…
On June 10, 323 BC in the late evening, after battling an unknown illness for…
Konstantinos Kanaris was a Greek Admiral, patriot, and politician who lived during the period 1790-1877.…
Odysseas Androutsos was born on the Ionian island of Ithaca in 1788 and was the…
On June 2, 1941, a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, 18km…
On May 30, 1941, in the late hours of the evening two university students, Manolis Glezos…
On this day in 1913, the Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro,…
Hagia Sophia, for almost 1,000 years was the largest Greek Orthodox Christian church in the…
Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, today more…