That the Cyprus match in 1974 was not supported is universally known. The responsibilities that existed, both for the then military leadership and for the later civilian government, were never attributed to those who should. Of all those who participated directly or indirectly in the most recent cal
Unknown people blew up the monument of expatriate activist Thymios Lolis, in the Greek minority village of Krania in the Municipality of Phoenikai, near Agioi Saranda, using an explosive device. The monument suffered serious damage while the windows of the surrounding buildings were also broken by t
In 1979 Iraq had procured a nuclear reactor from France. This event had caused panic in the Middle East. During the Iran-Iraq War the Iranians had tried to destroy it but failed. It was the Israelis turn to try. The French agreed to supply Iraq with 72 kilograms of enriched uranium. On April 6, 1
There are some people who feel the call of Fate and pull forward. They dont avoid it, they seek it for a passion, for a love, for an idea. For the 78-year-old, in 1974, Kalliopi Avraam, Greece was all of the above together. That is why the heroic grandmother decided to die next to the ELDYK lads, de
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-
The mystery surrounding the so-called Skeleton Lake in the Himalayas is growing. The lake, officially known as Roopkund, is located at an altitude of 5,000 meters and houses the remains of hundreds of people. A team of researchers who examined 38 skeletons discovered that 14 of the dead probably
The kingdom of Commagene, on the borders of present-day Turkey and Syria, was another province that was separated from the Seleucid state, around 163-162 BC. The satrap of the region, Ptolemy, taking advantage of the weakness of the Seleucids, founded his own state. Mithridates Is successor Kall
Already in the middle of the 15th century, relations between Russia and Greeks had begun to tighten. However, until the ascension of Peter the Great to the throne of Holy Russia, the good relations between Greeks and Russians were more platonic. However, Peter the Great, from the moment he decided t
November 23, 1916 was a bright day. The golden rays of the sun bathed the scene, trying in vain to dispel the gloom of war. The Albatros of German Jasta 2 returned from their fruitless morning patrol. The German operators were resting enjoying the sunshine. A few hours later they took off to car
In a new program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) all the great ancient Greeks who were born in Asia Minor are recorded as Turks, regardless of whether Turkey did not exist, at that time, even in the sick fantasy of the responsible. MITs Project Pantheon aims to create a histori
In the last days of the Byzantine Empire, there were persons who played a role indulgently miserable and even treacherous. One of these persons who had an absolutely disastrous role was Georgios Amiroutzis. The closest, chronologically, testimony about him was that of the also pro-Turkish Critobu
How did the Greeks live during Turkish rule? This question is now answered in Greece in two ways. The first refers to the actual data and the second, the revisionist, projects the theoretical framework based on Islamic law. According to Islam, the world is divided into that of the believers and t
Pedomazoma was the heaviest blood toll a nation was called upon to pay during foreign occupation. This is because his goal was not only to weaken the defeated but to strengthen the winner. Paedomazoma only sick brains like the Turks could have conceived as nothing similar, to this extent, has ev
The Crimean War (1853-56) was a great test for Greece. The Greeks saw in his outbreak the opportunity to free the slaves still in the Turkish dynast homeland. But the great powers had a different opinion. When, with the participation of Greek officers and volunteers from free Greece, successful r
The Greek area was inhabited hundreds of thousands of years ago. However, the first findings of weapons are much later and date back to the Middle Paleolithic period. These finds concern stone arrowheads, javelins and spears. The specific weapons were clearly used in hunting, but also apparently in
With the outbreak of the Crimean War, the Greeks thought that the time had come to liberate their unredeemed homelands. In 1854 revolutions broke out in Epirus, Macedonia and Thessaly. In Thessaly, the leadership was assumed by King Othonas aide-de-camp Major General Christodoulos Hadjipetros. Ha
Makrygiannis, when the revolution broke out, was in Arta, pretending to be a peacemaker. There he was arrested by the Turks and brutally tortured for 75 days, as he says. He escaped death twice and was finally rescued, through a relative of Ali Pasha, who was fighting against the Turks. After stayin
In 945 AD the great Arab general Saif al-Dawla created his own emirate based in Aleppo, becoming the main rival of the Byzantine Empire in the region of upper Syria. In the region, a continuous war was fought with raids and plundering on both sides. In the early summer of 960 AD. al-Daulah decide
The genocide of Pontic Hellenism - which since 1994 has been officially recognized by the Greek state with the declaration of May 19 as the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks - refers to the violent, massive, murderous events of the second and the beginning of the third decade o
In the midsummer of 415 BC. 136 warships and many transports carrying 2,100 Athenian hoplites, 500 Argive hoplites, 250 Arcadian hoplites and another 2,150 allied, vassal or mercenary hoplites, 480 light archers and javelinmen, 700 Rhodian slingers, 120 Megarians and 30 horsemen set out for Sicily w
TOWARDS 753 B.C. AD Foundation of the city of Rome: Originally, the city of Rome is just a small farming village on the banks of a river, the Tiber. Over time, new villages are born and eventually form a city. Rome is ruled by kings. The legend of Remus and Romulus: The city of Rome was founded by
TVP started shooting the continuation of its historical hit series. Crown of Kings. Jagiellons is scheduled to be scheduled in the fall of 2022. The new series will be a screening of the history of the Jagiellonian dynasty. The action of the continuation of the Crown of Kings will begin in 1399. W
It is a strange story that a pirate becomes a hero, but there is certainly such an example in world history. Among them, Barbaros Hayreddin, who led the battle of Preveza to victory as the Ottoman Navy Admiral, and Francis Drake, who participated in the Battle of Armada as a deputy, have become le
Ioannis Boubaras was born at the end of the 19th century in the mountainous village of Vlasti Eordaia, southwest of Ptolemaida. The village offered to the Nation the new martyr Markos and his lads in the various revolutions of the Greeks against the Turks. Father Kosmas Aitolos had passed through th