The campaign of the king of Epirus Pyrrhus in Sicily, in the middle of his campaign in Italy, is one of the most unknown aspects of the venture. His goal was to save the Greek cities from the Carthaginians and their Mamertine allies. The latter were former mercenaries who had settled in Sicily and f
When the ridiculous Italian dictator Mussolini declared war on Greece, the small Greek Air Force (then Royal Hellenic Air Force - EBA) had two Gloster Gladiator Mk I fighter jets donated by expatriate Stylianos Sarpakis. By December 1940 the EBA was already exhausted in its effort to deal with the p
The memorial service in memory of Nikitas Stamatelopoulos or Nikitaras was held in Chiliomodi, Corinthia. As stated by the Deputy Minister of Development and Investments Christos Dimas in his post on social media: Honor and glory to the heroes of 1821. Today, as every year, a memorial service w
His books appear on almost every list of the 100 greatest works of world literature. He himself came from a Polish family, but everyone knows him under a foreign name. Did this genius writer not want to be Polish? Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known to the world as Joseph Conrad, was