The Arkadi Monastery (Μονή Αρκαδίου) is one of Crete's most venerated symbols of freedom. By…
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Alexander the Great, otherwise referred to as the “King of Kings”, was born on July…
Konstantinos Kanaris was a Greek Admiral, patriot, and politician who lived from 1790-1877. He achieved…
Odysseas Androutsos was born on the Ionian island of Ithaca in 1788 and was the…
On June 2, 1941, a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, 18km…
On this day in 1913, the Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro,…
The naval battle of Eressos is considered the first frontal naval battle by the Greek…
About 2,500 Greek Australians served in the Australian Defence Forces during World War Two, including 35 women who served in various roles at home and abroad. ey served in Greece/ Crete, Tobruk, El Alemein, Egypt, Palestine, New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand and other parts of the Asia Pacific region.
It's Sunday, April 27, 1941. A military procession, consisting of two motorcycles, a Kubelwagen and…
The tale of two stories, both nearly 100 years apart, and both are being celebrated…
April 21, 1967, will be known as a day that forever changed Greek history when…
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn…
On this day in 1930, the name of Constantinople was officially changed to Istanbul by…
"As of today, the National Radio Foundation is introducing its new evening schedule for the technical…
Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου) was a Greek physician who was a pioneer in cytopathology and…
Efkleidis Kourtidis (Ευκλείδης Κουρτίδης) (1885 - February 10, 1937) Born in the town of Santa,…
On February 6, 1981, Queen Frederick, Queen of the Greeks during 1947-1964, thereafter Queen mother,…
Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of Greek Jews who were victim to the horrific brutality.
Aristotle Socrates Onassis was born on the 20th January 1906 in Smyrna and passed away…
On December 3, 1944, the first Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά) shots were fired in Athens, beginning one…