Battle of the Forts was the name given to the four-day defensive struggle of the defenders of the so-called Metaxa Line against the German forces which at 0515 on April 6, 1941 attacked Greece without warning. Germany, having already decided to invade the USSR, was forced, on the occasion of the fin
Nowadays it is simple to go to a defined address. We have the street name as well as the house number . All this was made compulsory by a decree of 1805. We thank the instigator of this decree, because there was a time, the journey was more epic to get to an individual. In the 17th century, to look
The last great manifestation in Europe of the Plague dated 1720 and remains known as the “plague of Marseille . It will cause 40,000 victims out of the 75,000 inhabitants of the Marseille city, which is then experiencing its twentieth epidemic of this disease since antiquity. In the 15th century, th
The historical site of Thermopylae became a battlefield not only in the famous conflict of 480 BC. but several more times in history. In 996 AD the Bulgarians, under Tsar Samuel, taking advantage of the involvement of the emperor Vasilios Bulgaroktonos with the Arabs, besieged Thessaloniki. However,