From Fokida in Sterea Ellada, Athanasios Diakos was a Monk and deacon who later became…
Tag: Greek War of Independence
Nikos Dendias, the Minister of National Defence, participated in a solemn event held at Trinity…
Messolonghi, Greece – The renowned British poet, Lord Byron, has succumbed to illness at the…
On the 200th anniversary of Greece’s folk hero Lord Byron’s death, a previously unseen letter…
The military parade for Greek Independence Day on March 25 in Athens was joyfully held.…
On the occasion of Greece’s National Day, which celebrates the anniversary of its War of…
Montreal’s Park-Extension district transformed into a sea of blue and white on Sunday as the…
Each year on March 25, Greeks all over the world celebrate Greek Independence Day, which…
On March 17, 1821, the Maniots at Areopoli declared war on the Turks in the…
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to meet with US President Joe Biden in Washington…
The vest of Eleni Staikou, who has a most fascinating story, dominates a prominent position…
Dionysius Vourvachis was a Greek officer in the French army and fighter of the Greek…
On this day February 3 in 1830 The London Protocol established the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire thereby concluding the Greek War of Independence.
Greek military commander and national hero Alexandros Ypsilantis (Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) was born on December 12,…
From the island of Hydra, Antonis Oikonomou (1786 – December 16, 1821) was a Greek…
The Presidential Guard (Προεδρική Φρουρά) are the epitome of bravery and freedom, honouring the heroes thousands of years on, who fought and sacrificed for the land on which they stand on.
In the annals of Romantic poetry, George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron Byron, stands out not only as a literary luminary but also as a fervent supporter of the Greek War of Independence. As the world observes the 200th anniversary of his death in 2024, the Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism, along with the Philhellenism Museum, has declared this year as the “Year of Lord Byron and Philhellenism.”
Born in Zakynthos, Panos Kolokotronis (1800 – December 3, 1824) was a Greek Fighter during…
Konstantinos Kanaris also anglicised as Constantine Kanaris or Canaris (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Κανάρης; c. 1790– 2 September…
History determines that the battle of Navarino became the last major naval battle that was…