The Arkadi Monastery (Μονή Αρκαδίου) is one of Crete's most venerated symbols of freedom. The Arkadi Monastery (Μονή Αρκαδίου) By…
Alexander the Great, otherwise referred to as the “King of Kings”, was born on July 20 or 21, 356 B.C.,…
Konstantinos Kanaris was a Greek Admiral, patriot, and politician who lived from 1790-1877. He achieved prominence due to his heroism…
Odysseas Androutsos was born on the Ionian island of Ithaca in 1788 and was the only son of the famous…
On June 2, 1941, a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, 18km west of Chania. The Massacre…
On this day in 1913, the Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, utterly defeated the Ottoman Empire,…
The naval battle of Eressos is considered the first frontal naval battle by the Greek navy during the Greek Revolution…
About 2,500 Greek Australians served in the Australian Defence Forces during World War Two, including 35 women who served in…
It's Sunday, April 27, 1941. A military procession, consisting of two motorcycles, a Kubelwagen and a truck, ascends from Thissio…
The tale of two stories, both nearly 100 years apart, and both are being celebrated today. One is considered a…
April 21, 1967, will be known as a day that forever changed Greek history when the military took over the…
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after…
On this day in 1930, the name of Constantinople was officially changed to Istanbul by Ataturk's government, which requested all…
"As of today, the National Radio Foundation is introducing its new evening schedule for the technical tests of the experimental television…
Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου) was a Greek physician who was a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor…
Efkleidis Kourtidis (Ευκλείδης Κουρτίδης) (1885 - February 10, 1937) Born in the town of Santa, south of Trapezounta in Pontos,…
On February 6, 1981, Queen Frederick, Queen of the Greeks during 1947-1964, thereafter Queen mother, passed away. Queen Frederica…
Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of…
Aristotle Socrates Onassis was born on the 20th January 1906 in Smyrna and passed away March 15, 1975, aged 69.…
On December 3, 1944, the first Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά) shots were fired in Athens, beginning one of the saddest and bloodiest…