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Wikipedia Robots Fight Over Alexander the Great
Humans and software robots (bots) fight over the content of the Alexander the Great entry in Wikipedia, according to new British scientific research. The research show that bots behave more like humans...
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Turkish FinMin Accuses Greek President of Provocative Statements
The Turkish Foreign Ministry in a written statement said that recent comments by Greece’s President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos show “lack of knowledge of basic international rules.” Turkey’s...
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How Rich Greeks Once Paid Taxes…Back in Ancient Times
Hard to imagine, but back in the days of the Ancient Greece, the richest of the rich competed to pay the most taxes, while the poor were treated to festivals and shows from the money taken from the...
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Archaeologists Find Position of Greek Fleet in Battle of Salamis, 480 BC
Archaeologists have discovered the site where the Greek fleet gathered for the Battle of Salamis against the Persians (480 BC), after finding antiquities in the waters of Ampelakia Bay. A 20-member...
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Scientists: Santorini Tsunami of 1650 BC Caused by Pyroclastic Flows, Not...
The 1650 BC eruption of the Santorini volcano triggered tsunamis that heavily damaged coastal towns and disrupted vital shipping and trade operations, a new study shows, contrary to a previous theory...
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The Heroins of the Greek War of Independence
The role that Greek women played in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire is not to be overlooked, as they helped shape the discourse of Greece’s plight for freedom from the Turks....
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Reflecting on The Great Fire of Smyrna and Turkey’s Current Irredentist Rhetoric
Uzay Bulut, a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara who now resides in Washington, D.C., has written an article called: Turkey: How the 3,000-year Greek Presence on the...
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CIA: USSR Wanted ‘Republic of Macedonia’ With Thessaloniki, Kavala,...
A CIA document recently declassified and published on its website, refers to a Soviet Union plan to create a “Republic of Macedonia” including Thessaloniki, Kavala, Alexandroupolis and all Macedonia...
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The Heroines of the Greek War of Independence
The role that Greek women played in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire is not to be overlooked, as they helped shape the discourse of Greece’s plight for freedom from the Ottoman...
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Kalavryta: The First Greek City Liberated From the Ottomans
On March 21, 1821 the Greek rebels started the siege of Kalavryta, making it the first Greek town that was liberated from the Ottomans, thus declaring the revolution for independence. In the morning of...
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Music and Sculpture at National Archaeological Museum Events on Monday
In a tribute to the “muses” that have inspired artists from antiquity up to the present day, the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is planning two separate events on sculpture and music that...
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Special Traffic Measures in Central Athens for March 25 Parades on Friday,...
Traffic police on Thursday announced special traffic measures in the center of Athens on Friday and Saturday, due to the school and military parades taking place in Greece’s capital to mark the March...
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The Story Behind the First Greek Flag (Video)
The first Greek flag was made on the island of Skiathos at the Holy Monastery of Evangelistria in the year 1807. It was made on a loom and had a white cross woven across it against a light blue...
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Turkish President Provokes Greece over Hagia Sophia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his provocations against Greece by saying he will go for Muslim prayer in Hagia Sophia on Holy Friday claiming it is really a mosque and not a museum....
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What Do Greeks Celebrate on Holy Wednesday?
The ceremonial traditions that Greeks carry out at the Church for Holy Wednesday are seeped stories from the Gospel of Matthew which tells the story of what took place two days before Jesus Christ was...
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Rare video of Easter in Greece the Civil War – 1947
A rare documentary video, located in the British archives Bristish Pathe, depicts the Easter celebration in Greece, the years of civil war and particularly in 1947. In the video, one can see the Public...
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How Lamb, Chocolate and Eggs Became Easter Traditions
Around the world people are gearing up to celebrate Easter with friends and family. There are different cultural aspects that influence the festivities, however, there are three things that most...
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April 21, 2017: The 50th Anniversary of a Dark Day in Greece’s Modern History...
Athenians who are over 50 years old probably have some memories of that Spring morning of April in 1967, when the radio was playing military songs and the announcer was warning people to stay indoors...
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German Philhellene Revives Ancient Delphic Games (video)
Philhellene Christian Kirsch is the founder of the International Delphic Council, an organization that revives the Pythian Games of Delphi — or Delphic Games — since 1997. Kirsch says that in Ancient...
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The May Day Wreath and Its Roots in Ancient Greece
Maios (Μάιος in Greek), the month of May, took its name from the ancient goddess Maia (in Greek Μαία, the mother, the midwife, she who helps to give birth. Maia was the Greek goddess of fertility. The...
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