Το βράδυ της 19ης Ιουλίου, ημέρα Παρασκευή, παραμονή της εισβολής, γυρίζαμε με λαντ-ρόβερ όλα τα Κάτω Φυλάκια (2ος Λόχος) μαζί με τον Υπ/γό Δαμιανίδη Χρήστο, διοικητή Λόχου Διοικήσεως, που έδινε αυστηρές οδηγίες στους άνδρες των φυλακίων να μην πυροβολούν προς τον Τ/Κ θύλακα, και ότι σε περίπτωση πο
The battle on Mount Vesuvius was the first major conflict of the so-called Third Slave War. It was also the first clash of Spartacus rebels with regular Roman troops in which the brilliant Thrax showed his strategic genius. Spartacus, according to Plutarch, was a Thrax descended from the race of the
It must have been around 3:00 p.m. when the 3rd company, under the command of Deputy Athanasios Mamalis, set out to take up positions in front of the Kalampaki hill to attack and capture the hill that unlocked the Turkish enclave of Agyrtas - Kioneli from the west. Together with Minister Damianidis
Μετά την καταστροφική ήττα του στόλου του στην Σαλαμίνα ο Ξέρξης αποχώρησε με τον όγκο του στρατού του από την Ελλάδα αφήνοντας τον στρατηγό του και γαμβρό του Μαρδόνιο, με 300.000, να υποτάξει την Ελλάδα. Ο τελευταίος υποχώρησε στον βοιωτικό κάμπο και διαχείμασε εκεί. Οι Έλληνες κινήθηκαν επίσης πρ
From Kefalovrysos of Lapithos we marched west until we arrived after the Harama in Vasileia where the rest of the battalion had already arrived. At a distance of not more than a kilometer from the coast, a Turkish destroyer (perhaps the one that attacked us the day before?) was coming and going and
Before the first light of day dawned, artillery bursts were heard from the Turkish side... The talks in Geneva had broken down a few hours earlier and the Turks were putting into action their plans to occupy the entire northern part of the island , starting the second phase of the Turkish invasion..
An important discovery came to light after a recent archaeological dig by the Archaeological Service of Avlona. There is talk of burial mounds and burial monuments, which go back to the late Bronze Age around the 15th - 12th BC. century, which are located in the coastal area of Himara and as usual
The other Greece, the one that doesnt erect statues of heroes, that doesnt parade as a neurotic punk in parades, the one that respects its history that still exists. This is what students of the 2nd Primary School of Sidirokastro teach. The 2nd Primary School of Sidirokastro took part in a stude
Rastrellare στα ιταλικά σημαίνει χτένισμα, εκκαθάριση. Για μια τέτοια επιχείρηση εκκαθάρισης (rastrellamento), που πήρε και το κωδικό όνομα «Operazioni K», ξεκίνησαν, στις 3 Δεκεμβρίου 1942, από τις βάσεις εκκίνησής τους, διάφορες ενισχυμένες φάλαγγες που έφεραν τα ονόματα των διοικητών τους (Branca
An issue that has occupied the various scholars of the eponymous battle of Marathon for centuries concerns the presence and action of the Persian cavalry in the battle of Marathon. Much has been said about this particular subject, from the fact that the Persians did not even have cavalry, until the
The battle of Thermopylae is a catalytic conflict in world history. It is an eternal example of bravery and self-sacrifice. Thermopylae is intertwined with the name of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans. However, in the final fight the Spartans were not alone. The early sources do not agree on either the
Οι Έλληνες της μυκηναϊκής εποχής είχαν οργανώσει την τελειότερη στρατιωτική μηχανή στον τότε γνωστό κόσμο. Ο Μυκηναϊκός Στρατός απαρτιζόταν από τα όπλα του πεζικού και του ιππικού. Το δεύτερο περιελάμβανε στις τάξεις του άρματα μάχης και αργότερα και ιππείς, με τη κλασική έννοια του όρου. Το πεζικό
The Battle of Cyprus in 1974 was decided in the two days of July 20-22, when the Greek forces, failed to eliminate the Turkish bridgehead at Pendemili in Kyrenia. This failure was a function of many factors, but basically it had to do with the inadequacy of the means available for the purpose. The m
Xerxes, after his magnificent victory at Thermopylae, gathered his army and moved south. His goal was the conquest of Athens, in the first phase and the Peloponnese afterwards. Athens was the second most powerful Greek city, and the Persian king rightly believed that its subjugation would greatly we
After the defeat of his forces at the Battle of Decimus, the Vandal king Gelimeros, at the head of his surviving men, moved south-west towards Mauritania. The morale of the army had fallen to such an extent that it did not even attempt to overthrow the few buccalarians (elite Byzantine horsemen) of
Ο ιστορικός τόπος των Θερμοπυλών κατέστη πεδίο μάχης όχι μόνο στη διάσημη σύγκρουση του 480 π.Χ. αλλά αρκετές ακόμα φορές στην ιστορία. Το 996 μ.Χ. the Bulgarians, under Tsar Samuel, taking advantage of the involvement of the emperor Vasilios Bulgaroktonos with the Arabs, besieged Thessaloniki. Howe
Στις αρχές του 4ου αιώνα π.Χ. οι Έλληνες της Σικελίας πολεμούσαν για μια ακόμη φορά κατά των προαιώνιων αντιπάλων τους, των Καρχηδονίων. Ο Διονύσιος των Συρακουσών, αυτή τη φορά επιθυμούσε να προετοιμάσει όσο το δυνατόν καλύτερα τις ελληνικές δυνάμεις. Πέραν όμως των κλασσικών όπλων οι μηχανικοί του
Τον 9ο αι. A.D. οι πόλεμοι Βυζαντίου – Αράβων συνεχίζονταν με αμείωτη ένταση. Γενικά ήταν μια περίοδος που οι Άραβες είχαν εν πολλοίς το πάνω χέρι, κατά το κοινώς λεγόμενο. Αυτός ήταν και ο λόγος που οι Βυζαντινοί σχεδίασαν και εκτέλεσαν μια «καταδρομική» επιχείρηση, στην καρδιά του εχθρικού εδάφους
The largely unknown battle of the Hysias took place in 669 (or 668) BC. in the homonymous region of Argolis between Argives and Spartans and was an event of enormous importance for political and especially military developments in the Greek area. Hysias, according to the traveler Pausanias, was
The overwhelming majority of Greek public opinion believes that after the Asia Minor disaster of 1922, the Treaty of Lausanne was signed which has defined the Greek-Turkish borders from 1923 until today. However, as we have mentioned in many articles, from the Asia Minor disaster at the end of Augus
The relations of the Turks with History are at best highly selective. The people who have stained their hands with blood even more than the Germans during their historical course have the audacity and speak of the massacre of the Turks in Tripolitsa during the liberation of the city from the Greek r
In the heart of the Hundred Years War, a real civil war opposes the Armagnacs , loyal to the royal family, and the Burgundians who allied themselves with the English. Since 1389, King Charles VI has regularly suffered from fits of dementia. A regency council was exercised by his brothers, of whom Lo
Topkapi Palace was a symbol of luxury, wealth and political power. It was erected in the 15th century by Sultan Mehmed II. By Me. Cláudio FernandesIt is known that the Turco-Ottoman civilization became famous in the year 1453, when promoting the siege against the center of the Byzantine Empire, the
In Basel, the French Directory was relatively generous because it needed the Spanish navy, which was the third largest in the world. He returned to the traditional alliance of France and Spain against England, this started the alliance with Napoleon. This is the meaning of the San Ildefonso treaty (