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.
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis was born on the 20th January 1906 in Smyrni and passed away…
In 1896, Spyridon Louis made Greek sporting history. He won the first marathon race of…
On December 3, 1944, the first Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά) shots were fired in Athens, beginning one…
On November 30, 1925, General Theodoros Pangalos introduced a new law in Greece, dictating the length of…
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…
On June 2, 1941, a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, 18km…
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.
Referred to as one of the darkest days in Greek history, the Fall of Constantinople took place on May 29, 1453, a battle that was part of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars (1265-1453).
The naval battle of Eressos is considered the first frontal naval battle by the Greek…
Today Greece and Greeks worldwide commemorate the death of Captain Konstantinos Iliakis who lost his…
To commemorate the Greek Genocide of Pontus, Greece’s Parliament building in Athens and the White Tower…
The Battle of Crete was one of the most dramatic battles of the Second World…
Today we commemorate the Greek Genocide victims of the Pontus region. During the genocide, over…
Greek-Albanian relations are in the forefront in recent days with the latter wanting to join…
The Antikythera mechanism, built in Greece, is the oldest mechanical ancient computer to be discovered worldwide, and…
Despina Achladioti known as the Lady of Ro (Κυρά της Ρω), was a passionate Greek…
On May 13, 1883, Georgios Papanikolaou, a Greek physician who was a pioneer in cytopathology…
Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825) was a Greek revolutionary and naval commander. An Arvanite Greek born in…