The visitor to the plain of Paramythia, where the area is called airport, will hardly realize that about seven decades ago, the quiet of the small valley was awakened by the hum of engines and that some of the most brilliant pages of the Aviation History of the Second World War in Greece. There was
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was an 11th century Castilian knight whom legend made the most outstanding hero of the Reconquest . He lived during the reigns of Fernando I of León, Sancho II of Castile and Alfonso VI of León and Castile. In the course of his military campaigns he managed to establish a solid
Mother, sister, wives, mistresses, many are the women who surrounded by the same adoration Francis I , a magnificent king in his court like a sultan in his Harem, devoting their whole life to him. He accepted their gift as his due, like a child spoiled by fortune. Louise de Savoie, Marguerite de Na
In 996 AD the Bulgarians, under Tsar Samuel, taking advantage of the involvement of the emperor Vasilios Bulgaroktonos with the Arabs, besieged Thessaloniki. However, unable to capture the well-fortified city, they moved south and plundered as far as Larissa, which they razed to the ground, literall