During the war, the issue of food grew to the rank of a gigantic problem. In order to help at least a little, city dwellers turned empty plots of land, parks, squares and their own balconies into gardens. It wasnt that simple with home animal husbandry. In order to secure a source of meat, peopl
What was the reaction of the Sublime Gate to the outbreak of the local rebellions of 1821? How did the Ottomans perceive the reality and how did they route their reaction towards the infidel Greeks? Have we exhausted the sources around the Greek Revolution? Do we know its real dimension? These and m
“Fog everywhere. Fog upstream of the river, where it flows between green islets and meadows, fog downstream of the river where it unfolds among the alongside ships and the pollution of the shores of a noble (and dirty) city. The tirade stretched over several paragraphs to describe, in the novel The
The first battle of Zela was fought in 67 BC. between the forces of the Pontic king Mithridates VI and the Romans under Gaius Valerius Triarius. In the period 88 – 75 BC Mithridates fought twice against the Romans and was badly defeated. The third war began in 75 BC. The Romans enlisted the two l