There have always been people in Greek history who put the love for the Motherland and Freedom above everything else. The bishop of Trikala (Trikkis) Dionysios also belonged to this category. An independent and haughty spirit, he could not tolerate the yoke of the barbarians. Initiated into every re
The Bulgarian ruler Samuel, who, like the Greek Alexander, is appropriated today by the people of Skopje, had led the Bulgarian army from success to success, in the war against the Byzantines, establishing, in 997 AD. the First Bulgarian Empire, of which he was named tsar. The emperor of Byzanti
In 1825 the Greek revolution was going through its most critical phase. After the triumphs of the previous years, the Greeks, thanks to their discord, managed to tear down what they had built with labor and blood. The enemies took full advantage of the Greek gluttony. In February 1825 a new form
The battle of Konitsa was not a simple event in the three-year war, now known as the Greek Civil War. It was a conflict of catalytic importance, mainly on a political level. The heroic resistance of the small and isolated garrison for more than a week led to the wreck of the grandiose and utopian pl
The Mannlicher is the weapon that has associated its name with the greatest victories of the Greek Army in the 20th century. It was used from 1912 to 1941 by the army. The first rifles and Arabids of the type were received in 1906, having been ordered by the government of Theotokos, in the context o
The colonel of the French army Nikolaos Papazoglou is one of the most interesting, but also the most enigmatic figures of modern Greek history. His real name is unknown. The origin of his family from Cesme in Asia Minor gave him the surname Chesmelis. But Nicholas was the son of a priest. Thus t
Michael I Palaiologos from the moment he ascended the throne, even as a usurper, set as his goal the recovery of the City and the re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire. But he tried to achieve it through diplomatic means. Seeking to end the rivalry with the Despotate of Epirus, he sent an embassy
Adolf Hitlers father, Alois Hitler, had another son, who even bore the same name as him. The younger Alois Hitler had immigrated to Britain and eventually ended up, at one point, working in a hotel in Dublin. There he met a 17-year-old girl, Bridget Dowling. The couple had a son, William Patrick
The Greek Army, before 1936, did not have anti-tank weapons. That year 24 German 37mm RAK 35/36 anti-tank guns were purchased. and later another 36 were ordered, but not delivered. Also ordered were 1,786 Boys 14mm British anti-tank rifles. for the direct anti-tank protection of the infantry at
In 1254 the great emperor John III Vatatzis died, leaving the Empire of Nicaea powerful. John had succeeded not only in fending off the attacks of the Latins against him, but also in liberating many lands in Thrace and Macedonia. At the same time, he had faced the Turkish and Bulgarian danger. H
The Catalan Company was a body of mercenary warriors who fought in the war between the King of Aragon and the King of Sicily. When the war ended these mercenaries found themselves unemployed. Then they offered their services to the emperor Andronicus, who urgently needed troops. In the fall of 13
After the end of the Balkan Wars the defeated Ottoman Empire decided to strengthen its fleet. Its main rival at sea was Greece which decided to act accordingly, buying two American pro-dreadnought battleships and ordering two light cruisers and new destroyers from Britain, one battleship from German
With the start of the war, it was decided that the Navy, in addition to its main mission, which was to cover the sea transport of the enlisted units of the Army, to also act aggressively. Thus it was decided that two Greek destroyers, Psara and Spetsai, under the general command of the captain a
The year 1683 is the catalytic date regarding the Turkish one. extensibility. From the collapse of the Ottoman Army in Vienna, which occurred that year and later, the Ottoman Empire began to disintegrate. Of course, there were some Turkish successes later, but they were all of minor importance, unab
By the late 1910s all European powers and the US had begun building air forces. In this development, Europe won the primacy, despite the fact that the Americans were the ones who first integrated the airplane into their armed forces. From the moment the military leaders of the European powers dec
The well-known Italian poet of the Middle Ages, Dante, imagined hell as a dark place of torture. But he could never have imagined that hell, as he envisioned it and described it in his Divine Comedy, would once exist on earth. The air is stuffy. A few men with their gas masks stuck to their faces
At the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 7th c. A.D. on the Danube appeared a new threat to the Byzantine Empire, that of the Avars. The Avars were a Mongolian race – the Turks, especially Erdogan, consider them their “brothers” – who, by subduing various Slavic, but also Germanic races, creat
December 15, 1937 is considered the day when the term Greek became a political category and led to mass arrests of members of the Greek minority in the Soviet Union. The persecutions included all male Greeks regardless of their political or social status. The entire Greek leadership group consisting
The Italian Spring Offensive began, on the 2nd Army Corps front, in the area of Trebesina, on March 9, 1941. The main objective of the Italians was the capture of the uncontested hill 731. Within 10 days, the Italians launched 17 successive attacks against the hill, which were repulsed with heavy c
After the happy end of the Balkan Wars, the Navy was the ruler of our Aegean. However, the Turks had no intention of accepting their defeat and decided to buy a powerful battleship, which was being built in Britain, on behalf of Brazil, with whom the Turks had agreed to buy it. In view of this e
The battle of Caporetto is one of the greatest victories of all time, achieved against a stronger opponent in extremely difficult terrain. The Italian 2nd Army held an extensive frontal sector south of Gorizia. This particular army had won the laurels of the 11th attack of Iszonso, which was succ
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets On August 22, 1485, one of the most decisive battles in the history of England took place. He faced the troops of King Richard III and those of Henry Tudor. The defeat and death of the first and the victory of the second marked the end of the reign of the P
Although women were not legally allowed to participate in the US Civil War, it is estimated that around 400 of them posed as men and fought. At this time, the role of women was limited to the domestic sphere and, in response to this role, recruitment was prohibited. Still, these 400 women decided to
It took a long time of 500 years for Rome to unify the Italian peninsula. Among them, it was the Samnium people, a mountain tribe with power in central Italy, who afflicted Rome, and it took about 40 years for Rome to conquer the Samnium people. This time, lets take a look at the Samnium War tha