Στις 14 Απριλίου 1941 οι Γερμανοί είχαν κυριεύσει την Αν. Μακεδονία, παρά των ηρωισμό των ελληνικών δυνάμεων στη Γραμμή Μεταξά. Οι δυνάμεις τους επικρατήσει και τον ελληνοβρετανικών δυνάμεων στην Κεντρική Μακεδονία. Οι νικηφόρες ελληνικές δυνάμεις στη Βόρεια Ήπειρο κινδύνευαν να κυκλωθούν. Με καθ
The archimandrite Theoktistos, born Vasilios Alexopoulos, was born in 1909 in the small village of Syrna in southeastern Gortynia. Μετά την αποφοίτησή του από το Δημοτικό σχολείο εργάστηκε ως στιλβωτής υποδημάτων. Κατόπιν έμαθε την τέχνη του υποδηματοποιού. Η αγάπη του για τον Χριστό όμως τον οδήγησ
On January 31, 1949, the infamous 5th Plenary Session of the KKE released Markos Vafiadis from all party work because he has been seriously ill for many months and cannot respond to the serious tasks assigned to him by the Central Committee of the KKE. In this way, Markos ceased to be prime minis
Karpenisi was the target of an attack by the KGANE (General Headquarters of Southern Greece) of the DES (Democratic Army of Greece). The attack was done for reasons of prestige, forced recruitment and looting. However, the attack against Karpenisi should not come as a bolt from the blue. The Greek A
The Ottoman conquest of Byzantine Asia Minor was not the result of a Madizkert-type catalytic battle. After all, at the beginning of the 14th c. the Byzantine Empire had only very small military forces. However, the Ottomans did not have serious forces either. They were even an insignificant race th
The site of Thermopylae has enormous historical weight. The heroic resistance of the Spartan king Leonidas of his 300 and 700 Thespians remains a monument to the century. However, the strategic passage became a battlefield several times both before and after the sacrifice of Leonidas, until 1941.
Το έτος 2019 είχε ιδιαίτερη σημασία για ένα ιστορικό αεροσκάφος, ένα από τα διασημότερα όλου του πλανήτη, τη θρυλική «Ντακότα». Εβδομήντα πέντε χρόνια μετά την D-Day, δώδεκα αναπαλαιωμένα C-47 με πληρώματα εθελοντές και βετεράνους πραγματοποίησαν ένα ταξίδι ιστορικής μνήμης από τις ΗΠΑ στην Ευρώπη σ
Η μάχη στο κάστρο του Αγίου Γεωργίου στα Σκορτά της Αρκαδίας, στις 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 1320, αποτελεί μια από τις ελάχιστα γνωστές, αλλά ιδιαίτερα ενδιαφέρουσες συγκρούσεις μεταξύ Βυζαντινών και Λατίνων για τον έλεγχο της Πελοποννήσου. Μετά τη μάχη της Πελαγονίας το 1261 η Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία απέκτη
Η ΧΙΧ Μηχανοκίνητη Μεραρχία (Μ/Κ Μ) ήταν ο πρώτος μηχανοκίνητος σχηματισμός του Ελληνικού Στρατού(ΕΣ). Συγκροτήθηκε με ότι ήταν διαθέσιμο και κατά συνέπεια στερείτο ισχύος. Σε άλλους στρατούς θα θεωρείτο κάτι σαν κωμωδία για τον στερούμενο παντελώς ανάλογων μονάδων ΕΣ όμως θα μπορούσε να αποδειχθεί
The battle in Sepia was fought, according to Herodotus, which is also the main source, in 494 BC. and resulted in Sparta gaining absolute sovereignty in the Peloponnese. Few details are known. According to Herodotus who wrote more than 50 years after the battle, the Spartan king Cleomenes I move
After the disastrous defeat at Manzikert in 1071, the Byzantine Empire faltered. The ascension to the throne of incompetent emperors and the civil conflicts that followed, exacerbated the weakening of the Empire. 10 years passed after the disaster before a remarkable soldier-emperor, Alexios I Komne
Greece was and is the land of the incredible. One of them happened on November 27, 1847. It is one of the most embarrassing incidents in the history of Greece and the Greek Army, in which of course there was involvement of political media, as well as foreign embassies. The situation in Greece th
The ancient city of Troy, on the northwest coast of Asia Minor, seems to be 6 centuries older. Specifically, the Turkish archaeologist Rüstem Aslan, a professor at the Canakale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU) reports that the legendary, ancient city of Troy was destroyed many times by wars, fires and
Verati of todays Albania belonged for centuries to the Byzantine Empire. Researchers identify it with the ancient Greek Antipatria, while the Byzantines called the city Pulcheriopolis and later Belgrade (white city). The emperorMichael VIII Paleologos after the victory in Pelagonia (1259) and the
Recently an American magazine published an article by the author Myke Cole entitled:The fetish of Sparta, a spiritual cancer. As the title suggests, Cole is no fan of ancient Sparta. But from this to the complete distortion of the historical truth there is a huge distance. He claims that those of
Το 1877 ξέσπασε ο Ρωσοτουρκικός Πόλεμος. Οι Ρώσοι κινήθηκαν από τη Ρουμανία προς Νότο αλλά σταμάτησαν στην Πλέβνα της Βουλγαρίας. Η μικρή Ελλάδα παρακολουθούσε με ενδιαφέρον τις εξελίξεις. Ο τότε πρωθυπουργός Αλέξανδρος Κουμουνδούρος σκόπευε να εκμεταλλευτεί την εμπλοκή των Τούρκων ώστε να κερδίσει
Η μάχη στο Καλταβουτούρο της Σικελίας είναι μια από τις λιγότερο γνωστές της Βυζαντινής Αυτοκρατορίας, αλλά και από τις πλέον καταστροφικές για τους Άραβες αντιπάλους της. Το αραβικό εμιράτο των Αγλαβιδών εκτεινόταν στην σημερινή Λιβύη και Αλγερία. Είχε δε επεκταθεί και στην Σικελία. Το 880 μ.Χ.
The city of Spartolos was the capital of the Vottians. The city was located in western Halkidiki, near Olynthos. It was part of the Athenian Alliance until the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC) when it rebelled and left the alliance. In 429 BC an Athenian force of about 4,000 men under
The Byzantine Empire took advantage of the Arab civil war that brought the Abbasid dynasty to power. Emperor Constantine V Isaurus recovered territories and fortresses in Asia Minor. One of them was the fortress of Kamachos, in the region of the Upper Euphrates. The fort in question had fallen into
Alalia of Corsica, todays Aleria, was a Greek city founded by settlers from Phocaea in Asia Minor during the Second Greek Colonization. The Phocaeans who had founded Phocaea were settlers from Phocis and Athens. The Phocaeans had also founded other cities in the wider area of the Italian and Frenc
Those who have tried eels, my pocket only allows me those from Aguinaga, say that it is an exquisite delicacy... that the Romans already tasted and tasted, although they were more of the fathers of eels, eels, and moray eels. If we put aside the bad smell, little would have to envy a Roman dish such
Many do not know the Requetés and today we are going to talk about them, they were Carlist soldiers who actively participated in the First Carlist War. Later these soldiers were called «the Navarrese forces » and were part of General Francos army during our unfortunate confrontation between brother
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets On February 23, in the year 1447, Humhprey of Gloucester dies under mysterious circumstances. It does not seem to make much sense to affirm that the death of a little-known character that took place eight years before the beginning of the dynastic conflic
The French pilot Roland Garros was one of the pioneering pilots in the history of aviation. He was born in 1888. From an early age he was involved in airplanes. He made his first flight in 1909 and in the period until the start of the First World War, he participated in various air shows and competi