In the summer of 2021, the palace where Alexander the Great was born, will be…
Tag: history
Over the weekend, the 77th anniversary of the Lyngiades massacre was remembered. The Lyngiades massacre,…
Greece’s well-loved and popular Archaeological Museum of Pella was awarded the 2020 Traveler’s Choice Award…
The Ministry of Culture and Sports on Monday announced that five rare silver coins dating…
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which is considered the world’s tallest…
Savvas Lolos, the last of the first generation refugees who arrived in the area of…
The Hellenic Parliament honoured the 25th centennial of the Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis on…
A mobile phone or tablet can now be used to tour the Museum of Cycladic…
Archaeologists have uncovered more than 3,500 objects in a Bronze Age warrior’s tomb in southwestern…
On September 23rd, 1821, the rebellious Greeks won a significant victory against the Turks, which…
The Battle of Salamis was one of the final battles in the second war between…
It was September 18, 1834, when by decree of Otto’s regency, Athens was declared the…
On September 13, 1922, Turkish soldiers at the end of the three-year-long Greco-Turkish War lit…
On this day, 9th September, in 1922, at around 11am, Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna…
A devastating earthquake hit Athens on September 7, 1999, leaving 143 people dead, 2,000 injured…
Berlin’s persistent attempt to prevent effective sanctions against Turkey (due to its refusal to withdraw…
The first confirmed Greeks to step foot on Australian soil were a group of seven…
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος) was probably the most prominent politician in Greece’s Modern…
The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC, was a battle in the second Persian invasion of…
On August 14th 1996, Solomos Solomou, cousin of Tassos Isaac, was shot dead by a…