On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn…
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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…
The Arkadi Monastery (Μονή Αρκαδίου) is one of Crete’s most venerated symbols of freedom. By…
Alexander the Great, otherwise referred to as the “King of Kings” was born on July…
Hagia Sophia was one of several great churches originally built by Constantine, the first Christian emperor and founder of the city of Constantinople. For almost 1,000 years Hagia Sophia remained the largest Greek Orthodox Christian church in the world.
Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825) was a Greek revolutionary and naval commander. An Arvanite Greek born in…
GREEK GENOCIDE: The Pontian Greeks who fought hard and bravely against Turkish genocide perpetrators
Today we commemorate the Pontian Greek victims of the Greek Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman…
“Today we pause to reflect on the victims of the Greek Genocide from the region…
May 19 marks the remembrance of the Pontian Greek Genocide (1916-1923), one of the darkest…
The Antikythera mechanism, built-in Greece, is the oldest mechanical ancient computer to be discovered worldwide and was…
Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825) was a Greek revolutionary and naval commander. An Arvanite Greek-born in a…
It’s Sunday, April 27, 1941. A military procession, consisting of two motorcycles, a Kubelwagen and…
The current situation and the exact population of the Greek Community of Skopje is not…
