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Greeks Remember Genocide of Their Ancestors in Pontus
Every year on May 19 Pontic Greeks commemorate one of the darkest pages in Hellenic history, as the date will forever be connected to the genocide of their ancestors at the hands of the Turks. The...
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Author, Speaker, Holocaust Survivor Rosina Pardo Dies At 87
Photo source: jewishmuseum.gr Rosina Pardo, who was an author, speaker and a Greek Holocaust survivor, has died in Thessaloniki at age 87. The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki announced her death on...
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How the Battle of Crete Changed the Course of World War II
The Battle of Crete will remain forever in military history as the scene of the largest German airborne operation of World War II. In Greek history, it also serves as another chapter showing the...
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The Handsome Brad Pitt Look Alike Who Fought Heroically in the Battle of Crete
This photograph of three Cretan resistance fighters posing with German rifles, hand-grenades and binoculars has been doing the rounds in Greek social media for years. It is snapped at the village of...
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Greeks Worldwide Celebrate Saints Constantine and Helen
For many Greeks May 21 is a festive day as the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Constantine, the founder of Constantinople, and his mother Helen. Constantine and Helen are among the most...
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For 2500 Years Greeks – Even Alexander The Great – Have Loved Ice Cream
Alexander the Great, Istanbul Archaeology Museum. Photo credit: Wikipedia How long have the Greeks’ had a love affair with ice cream? How about since at least one hundred years before Alexander the...
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Anna Bulgari, Heiress of the Iconic Luxury Brand, Dies at 93
Anna Bulgari Calissoni, heiress to the Italian jewelry dynasty Bvlgari, the iconic luxury brand, has passed away at the age of 93. The heiress died on Friday, however a spokesman of the family...
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New Smartphone App Opens Famed Greek Monasteries to the World
One of the spectacularly-situated monasteries at Meteora, Greece. Photo credit: DimitrisP67/Wikimedia Commons Locked-down would-be tourists who are longing to visit Greece can still enjoy the...
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Hippocrates: The Greek Father of Modern Medicine
Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Marble relief 5th century BC / Wikimedia Commons Born on The island of Kos, c. 460 BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, as he...
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May 28, 1952: Greek Women Earn the Right to be Elected
After many decades of struggle, Greek women finally won the right to be elected to Parliament on May 28, 1952. It then took more than twenty years for the principle of gender equality to be established...
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The Historical Memory of Constantinople, 567 Years After the Fall
Michael Goodyear* May 29, 1453: the final Ottoman assault on Constantinople succeeds. Ottoman cannon fire had battered the great Theodosian Walls of the city. The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI...
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Greece Condemns Muslim Prayers at Hagia Sophia
Greek officials responded this week to plans by Turkey to celebrate the 567th anniversary since the fall of Istanbul by offering Muslim prayers at the Greek Orthodox church of Hagia Sophia. In comments...
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When Two 18-Year-Old Greek Boys Tore Down the Symbol of Nazi Occupation
On this day, May 30, 1941, the Nazi flag was torn down from the Acropolis by Manolis Glezos and Lakis Santas. The two 18-year-old youths risked everything as they scaled the walls of the Acropolis at...
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Former First Lady of Greece Amalia Megapanou Dies at 91
Amalia Megapanou and her husband Konstantinos Karamanlis meet with JFK and Jackie Onassis at the White House in April 1961 Amalia Megapanou, the former wife of the late Greek statesman Konstantinos...
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The Awe-Inspiring Helmet of Legendary Ancient Greek Warrior Miltiades
The Helmet of Miltiades. Photograph: Archaeological Museum of Olympia/Wikimedia Commons Miltiades, one of the most important figures of ancient Greece, served as the general of the army of Athenians...
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The Golden Age of Greek Science
Helios (Sun) on his chariot. Image from a 330 BCE vase from Canossa, a Greek colony in southern Italy. By Evaggelos Vallianatos* What is a golden age? A golden age captures the best and greatest...
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The Oldest Street in Athens and Europe
Tripodon Street today with the Monument of Lysicrates on the left. From the book “Plaka Through Time” The oldest street in Athens, and the whole of Europe, is about 2,500 years old — and is located in...
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Athens Public Transport in the 1920s: Rare Black and White Footage Digitized
A rare silent movie of the Athens tram in the late 1920s was recently digitized by Greek state television (ERT) and was released on Tuesday. The astonishing footage, which dates from 1929, shows a...
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Long-Lost Carriage Used at Spanish Royal Wedding Discovered in Athens
The ornate horse-drawn carriage used in the wedding of Queen Sophia and King Juan Carlos of Spain, in Athens, 1962 At least four elegant horse-drawn carriages, among them one used during the wedding of...
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Branded a Coward, Died a Hero: The Story of the Only Survivor of Leonidas’ 300
Nearly all historical events have both heroes as well as villains. In the Battle of Thermopylae Leonidas and his brave 300 were the heroes — and Ephialtes of Trachis, the vile traitor who betrayed the...
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