It was September 18, 1834, when by decree of Otto’s regency, Athens was declared the…
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On this day in 1922, The Great Fire of Smyrna begins On September 13, 1922,…
On this day, 9th September, in 1922, at around 11 am, Turkish cavalry rode into…
August 30th, 1949 – The Battle of Grammos-Vitsi After nearly 10 years of continuous fighting,…
The first confirmed Greeks to set foot on Australian soil were a group of seven…
On this day in 1864, Eleftherios Venizelos was born Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος)…
An ancient relief depicting the Greek-Persian wars was discovered on Monday during excavations in the…
On August 14th 1996, Solomos Solomou, cousin of Tassos Isaac, was shot dead by a…
On July 29 1982, Melina Mercouri, Minister of Culture and Sciences of Greece, addressed the…
Neilos appealed to Egyptians and Greeks alike – he was the Greek version of Hapy,…
The Olympic fire is ignited several months before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games…
Manolis Bikakis – a Cretan-born hero of Cyprus. His story is not well known, but…
On July 20, 1974, at 5:20am, 40,000 Turkish troops landed and invaded northern Cyprus after…
Georgios Dilvois (February 5, 1896 – July 18, 1918) Born in Alatsata in Ionia, Asia…
Thymios Lolis (1880 – June 16, 1961 Born in the village of Krania, midway between…
A 1,800-year-old Greek statue of a woman was unearthed in Turkey’s western Izmir province (Smyrna),…
An “architectural jewel for Athens”, the Ziller-Loverdos Mansion on Mavromichali street, opened to the public…
Laskarina Bouboulina was a Heroine of the Greek War of Independence, reaching the rank of…
Norm Eaton, one of the last surviving WA veterans who fought in the Greek and…
The Genocide of Greeks living in the lands south of the Black Sea took place…