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…
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…
Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the…
April 24th is the day the world commemorates the Armenian Genocide committed by Turks in…
The tale of two stories, both nearly 100 years apart, and both are being celebrated…
April 21, 1967, will always be known as a day that forever changed Greek history…
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn…
On this day in 1930, the name of the city Constantinople was officially changed to…
On the 17th March 1821, war was declared on the Turks by the Maniots at…
Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου) was a Greek physician who was a pioneer in cytopathology and…
Ioannis Kapodistrias (Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας) was the first Governor of the new Greek nation from 1828…