On this day in 1930, the name of Constantinople was officially changed to Istanbul by…
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On February 6, 1981, Queen Frederick, Queen of the Greeks during 1947-1964, thereafter Queen mother,…
Ioannis Metaxas was the Greek Prime Minister from 1936 to 1941 and made famous for…
The first Greek Constitution was adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus on January…
The Balkan League, comprising of Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, declared war against the Ottoman…
The Athenian temple was partly destroyed on 26 September 1687. The 15-year ‘Great Turkish War’, an…
Prince Philip, born on the Greek island of Corfu, died last year on the 9th…
On this day in 1930, the name of the city Constantinople was officially changed to…
On February 6, 1981, Queen Frederick, Queen of the Greeks during 1947-1964, thereafter Queen mother,…
Ioannis Metaxas was the Greek Prime Minister from 1936 to 1941 and made famous for…
The church of Hagia Sophia (literally “Holy Wisdom”) in Constantinople, now Istanbul, was first dedicated…
The Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, declared the First Balkan War…
Georgios Dilvois (February 5, 1896 – July 18, 1918) Born in Alatsata in Ionia, Asia…
During its eight years of bailout programs, Greece suffered an economic hit similar to the…
On February 6, 1981, Queen Frederick, Queen of the Greeks during 1947-1964, thereafter Queen mother,…
Ioannis Metaxas was the Greek Prime Minister from 1936 to 1941 and made famous for…
The first Greek Constitution was adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus on January…
On this day in 1930, the name of the city Constantinople was officially changed to…
Mikis Theodorakis was born on July 29 in 1925, on the Greek island of Chios.…
On the 12th of October 1944, the Nazi forces in Greece vacated Athens and began…