One of the most interesting and much-discussed periods of modern Greek history is undoubtedly the years of the Second World War and what followed after its end. Of particular interest is the attitude of the KKE in the period from 1943 to the end of the 1940s and its cooperation with the Albanian Com
Sixth month of the Roman calendar dedicated to the hunting goddess, Diana . His obvious ordinal name endured until, as had happened with his predecessor Gaius Julius Caesar, a Senate decree ruled to change the name of the month to the unquestionable Princeps of the Republic, savior of the state and
When in April 1814 the defeated Napoleon went to exile on the island of Elba, he expected his wife Maria Ludwika to join him. He was very disappointed. But instead Maria Walewska came to the island. Napoleon himself, although he was happy about this visit, was heartbroken because of the adultery o
The battle of Vatheos Ryakos is one of the most interesting in Byzantine history. Opponents were on the one hand the Empire and on the other the sect of the Paulikians, a sect based on Gnosticism that had developed into a state within a state creating an independent territory in Tefrika, in present-