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AEK’s 1968 Triumph: More Than Just a Game
On April 4, 1968 a Greek sporting triumph took place when AEK won the European Cup in basketball in front of 80,000 spectators at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. It was the first time in the...
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Greece to Submit Bid to UNESCO for ‘Exile Island’
Greece is preparing to submit an application to UNESCO to recognize the uninhabited island of Makronisos; an island where tens of thousands of political prisoners were once held, as a World Heritage...
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The Ancient Greek Boy and his Yo-Yo
The very first depiction of a yo-yo is to be found on an ancient Greek vase from the 5th century BC, where a boy can be seen playing with the timeless toy. The yo-yo is the second-oldest known toy...
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Karytaina: Greece’s ‘5,000-Drachma Bill Bridge’ (video)
The bridge of Karytaina is widely known as the ‘5,000-drachma bill bridge’ because its image, along with that of the town, was on an old Greek banknote. The stone bridge in the mountainous Arcadia...
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Greeks Honor Heroic Exodus of Missolonghi
Detail from “The Exodus from Missolonghi” (1853) – Theodoros Vryzakis On 10 April 1825, three years after the failed attempt to occupy Missolonghi, the Ottoman armies returned to besiege the city that...
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Meet the Warriors Bringing Ancient Greek Warfare Back to Life (photo, video)
Greek history is known worldwide for its tales of immortal gods, heroic warriors and battles like the fall of Troy. One group of modern Greeks is taking it all a step further, by reviving and...
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Lord Byron: The Romantic Poet Who Died for Greece
Lord Byron in Albanian dress; Thomas Phillips 1813. Lord George Gordon Byron is one of the first and best-known philhellenes, who actively participated in Greece’s War of Independence, eventually...
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Series of Events on Lemnos to Commemorate ANZACs that Fell in Gallipoli
The island of Lemnos will be holding a series of events at Mydros on Friday, to commemorate the ANZACs that fell in the notorious Battle of Gallipoli, during World War I. The commemoration ceremonies...
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April 21, 1967: A Date Most Greeks Want to Forget
(Makarezos, Pattakos, Papadopoulos) For the army colonels who overthrew the government and established a seven-year cruel dictatorship, April 21, 1967 was the...
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Konstantinos Karamanlis: His Contribution to the Modernization of Greece
When King Paul entrusted Konstantinos Karamanlis to form a government on October 5, 1955 after the death of prime minister Alexandros Papagos, one of Greece’s greatest modern national leaders was...
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Armenian Genocide Remembered on April 24 (video)
The starting date of the Armenian Genocide is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the...
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April 27, 1941: The Day the Nazis Took Over Athens (video)
It was a Sunday on 27th April 1941, when German troops entered Athens. The capital’s residents remained stubbornly locked in their homes. The rise of the Nazi swastika on the Acropolis marked the...
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Greece Honors Heroine of War of Independence 193 Years After her Death
Greece’s Ministry of National Defence honored Laskarina Bouboulina, a heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, by awarding her the rank of vice-admiral. The posthumous award, almost two...
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New Meteora Museum Reveals Greek Site’s Ancient Past (video)
A new museum at the site of central Greece’s epic Meteora rock formations will boost tourist traffic and benefit the whole regions, officials have said. The Museum of Geological Formations of Meteora...
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Meet The Former Soldiers Bringing Greece’s Battles Back to Life
By Heini-Sofia Alavuo Ask someone to name a famous Greek tale and the Trojan War is sure to arise. A younger person, inspired by the film 300, might talk about the Battle of Thermopylae. An athlete...
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Athens’ Last Ottoman Fountain Was Built by City’s Tyrannical Ruler
A unique monument in Athens lies hidden in one of the gardens belonging to the capital’s Agricultural University on Iera Odos (Sacred Road), the ancient track that connected Athens to Elefsis. After...
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Greek Festival to Re-enact 1941 Nazi Invasion (video)
A German attack on northern Greece in April 1941 is to be reenacted this weekend. The Roupel Battle Historical Revival Festival will re-stage the Wehrmacht’s assault on the northern border near Serres...
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Prince Charles and his Roots in Greece
Prince Charles with his grandmother Princess Alice and sister Princess Anne in England, 1955 When Prince Charles said that Greece is in his blood upon his first official visit to the country, he was...
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The ‘Lady of Ro’: Greece’s Joan of Arc
Despina Achladioti, AKA the ‘Lady of Ro’ Today marks the anniversary of the death of a lady who lived alone on a remote Greek island but whose small daily act of patriotism has seen her compared to...
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Thousands Watch Re-Enactment of WWII Battle in Northern Greece (video)
History came alive on Saturday as thousands of people thronged the northern Greek border to see the third annual reenactment of the April 1941 Nazi siege of Fort Roupel. Roupel Battle Historical...
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