April 6 is a painful day for every Greek as it marks the beginning of…
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Thessaloniki, the second largest city for most of the existence of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine)…
Each year, Hellenes all over the world celebrate Greek Independence Day on March 25, which is a national holiday in Greece. Today marks the 201st anniversary of Greek Independence Day. This is when Greeks remember their long struggle against the Ottoman Empire, an effort that eventually leads to Greece’s independence.
Each year on March 25, Greeks all over the world celebrate Greek Independence Day, which…
With the entire world’s focus on Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remembered that neighbouring…
Described as an “Ocean’s Eleven minus Brad Pitt meets Dan Brown, Byron and Thucydides”, ‘The Aegean Seven’ is a new historical fiction by Billy Cotsis for those who want to know more about the period in which and how the Parthenon Sculptures were taken. Despite many of the characters being purely fiction, the novel lays out what happened and how it happened on the eve of the Greek Revolution and freedom.
Ioannina, the largest city of Epirus, was incorporated into the Greek state on the 21st…
The vest of Eleni Staikou, who has a most fascinating story, dominates a prominent position…
With 260,000 euros, the Catalans helped restore the unique vault of the Vatopedi Monastery as…
Constantin Carathéodory (Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή) was a Greek mathematician who made significant contributions to the calculus…
The Dance of Zalongo, the mass suicide of Souliote women and children, is one of…
“The obligation to return the Parthenon sculptures lies squarely with the UK government.” Greek PM Kriakos Mitsotakis calls for talks with the UK, offers to loan treasures to the British Museum in exchange for the Parthenon sculptures.
The current population of Turkey is about 80 million, but Christians and Jews only comprise…
The Greek fleet, led by Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, started from the bay of Moudros in…
October 31, 1912 marks the anniversary of the sinking of the Feth-i Bülend Ottoman warship…
On this day, we remember the innocent victims of the Massacres of Amida (Άμιδα, Turkish:…
On this day in 1912, the commander of the 8th Turkish army corps, Hasan Tahsin Pasha, signed the protocol officially surrendering Thessaloniki to the advancing Greek Army during the First Balkan War.
The epic of the inhabitants of Chalastra, October 22-24, 1912 – The First Balkan War.…
On this day, the Greek army entered Kozani during the early fighting of the First…
During the First Balkan War, the Greek Navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, liberated the…
