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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 Smyrni and passed away…
Kostis Palamas (Κωστής Παλαμάς) was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic…
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…
Greece has circulated collectible coins to mark the 2500th Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae…
The Arkadi Monastery (Μονή Αρκαδίου) is one of Crete’s most venerated symbols of freedom. By…
One of Greece’s most revered heroes, Theodoros Kolokotronis, had a statue in his honour vandalised…
Yesterday a statue of the last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, often called the Eastern…
The Epirus region is today divided in two – liberated Epirus in Greece and Northern…
Konstantinos Kanaris was a Greek Admiral, patriot, and politician who lived during the period 1790-1877.…
Odysseas Androutsos was born on the Ionian island of Ithaca in 1788 and was the…
On June 2, 1941, a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, 18km…
The last residence of Pavlos Melas, one of Greece’s greatest war heroes who fought during…
567 years have passed since the Fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453, the day…
Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas while speaking to Antenna, reassured that Greece will not be…
On this day in 1913, the Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro,…
With the popularity of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan diminishing due to the declining economic…