From Veria in Macedonia, Anastasios Karatasos (1764 – 21 January 1830) was a military commander…
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Amateur archaeologists find ‘extraordinary’ Greco Roman artefact dubbed ‘paranormal paracetamol’ in Hampshire field – the…
Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire in c. 672. Used…
Although conventional archaeology claims that writing was not invented until 3000 to 4000 BC in…
Just a few days after the transfer of ten Parthenon fragments from the National Archaeological…
DO YOU KNOW THE LONG HISTORY OF THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT CITY OF GREECE, THESSALONIKI…
An important find came to light on December 16, at the agora of ancient Epidaurus…
Unknown to many people, the first mention of the famous Feta cheese is seemingly as…
The Eastern Roman Empire, more commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, was a Greek-speaking Empire,…
The fustanela is a pleated white kilt, it was historically worn by the brigands and…
![Levantine Emmanouel Timonis and Jacobus Pylarinos, engraving from the front cover of their book “Some account of what is said for inoculating or transplanting the smallpox” With some remarks thereon του Cotton Mather. Boston, 1721 [1]](https://greekcitytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2-36.jpg "Why You Should Thank Levantine Greeks For Vaccines 17")
The issue of vaccines and all the conspiracy theories surrounding it has spread all over…
From the village of Kallikratis in southwestern Crete, Efthymios Kaoudis (1866 – December 17, 1956) was…
On December 15, 1937, the purges by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’ against the Greeks of…
During the Greco-Italian War of World War II, the capital of Northern Epirus in Southern…
From Kilkis and born as Ioannis Villioglou (1885 – December 5, 1923), Ioannis Ramnalis, was…
It was the largest Sea Battle of the Balkan Wars (1912-13). Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis,…
In the early 1890’s, the Greek government decided to build a new mosque in Athens…
Architectural remains of a monumental building were brought to light by an excavation carried out…
From the village of Mammari to the west of Nicosia, Savvas Rotsidis (1935 – November…
During the Greco-Italian War in World War II, Korytsa (Κορυτσά, Albanian: Korçë) in Northern Epirus…