On April 14, 1941, the Germans had occupied North Macedonia, despite the heroism of the Greek forces at the Metaxas Line. Their forces prevailed over the Greek-British forces in Central Macedonia. The victorious Greek forces in Northern Epirus were in danger of being encircled. Belatedly the admi
The archimandrite Theoktistos, born Vasilios Alexopoulos, was born in 1909 in the small village of Syrna in southeastern Gortynia. After graduating from Primary school he worked as a shoe shiner. He then learned the shoemakers trade. However, his love for Christ led him to the decision to become a m
On January 31, 1949, the infamous 5th Plenary Session of the KKE released Markos Vafiadis from all party work because he has been seriously ill for many months and cannot respond to the serious tasks assigned to him by the Central Committee of the KKE. In this way, Markos ceased to be prime minis
Karpenisi was the target of an attack by the KGANE (General Headquarters of Southern Greece) of the DES (Democratic Army of Greece). The attack was done for reasons of prestige, forced recruitment and looting. However, the attack against Karpenisi should not come as a bolt from the blue. The Greek A
The Ottoman conquest of Byzantine Asia Minor was not the result of a Madizkert-type catalytic battle. After all, at the beginning of the 14th c. the Byzantine Empire had only very small military forces. However, the Ottomans did not have serious forces either. They were even an insignificant race th
The site of Thermopylae has enormous historical weight. The heroic resistance of the Spartan king Leonidas of his 300 and 700 Thespians remains a monument to the century. However, the strategic passage became a battlefield several times both before and after the sacrifice of Leonidas, until 1941.
The year 2019 had a special significance for a historic aircraft, one of the most famous in the whole planet, the legendary Dakota. Seventy-five years after D-Day, twelve restored C-47s with crews of volunteers and veterans made a trip of historical memory from the US to Europe as part of the Daks O
The battle at the castle of Agios Georgios in Skorta, Arcadia, on September 9, 1320, is one of the little-known, but particularly interesting conflicts between Byzantines and Latins for control of the Peloponnese. After the battle of Pelagonia in 1261, the Byzantine Empire acquired a bridgehead i
The XIX Motorized Division (M/K M) was the first motorized formation of the Hellenic Army(ES). It was formed with what was available and therefore lacking power. In other armies it would be considered something of a comedy for the one completely devoid of comparable SS units, but it could prove usef
The battle in Sepia was fought, according to Herodotus, which is also the main source, in 494 BC. and resulted in Sparta gaining absolute sovereignty in the Peloponnese. Few details are known. According to Herodotus who wrote more than 50 years after the battle, the Spartan king Cleomenes I move
After the disastrous defeat at Manzikert in 1071, the Byzantine Empire faltered. The ascension to the throne of incompetent emperors and the civil conflicts that followed, exacerbated the weakening of the Empire. 10 years passed after the disaster before a remarkable soldier-emperor, Alexios I Komne
Greece was and is the land of the incredible. One of them happened on November 27, 1847. It is one of the most embarrassing incidents in the history of Greece and the Greek Army, in which of course there was involvement of political media, as well as foreign embassies. The situation in Greece th
The ancient city of Troy, on the northwest coast of Asia Minor, seems to be 6 centuries older. Specifically, the Turkish archaeologist Rüstem Aslan, a professor at the Canakale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU) reports that the legendary, ancient city of Troy was destroyed many times by wars, fires and
Verati of todays Albania belonged for centuries to the Byzantine Empire. Researchers identify it with the ancient Greek Antipatria, while the Byzantines called the city Pulcheriopolis and later Belgrade (white city). The emperorMichael VIII Paleologos after the victory in Pelagonia (1259) and the
Recently an American magazine published an article by the author Myke Cole entitled:The fetish of Sparta, a spiritual cancer. As the title suggests, Cole is no fan of ancient Sparta. But from this to the complete distortion of the historical truth there is a huge distance. He claims that those of
In 1877 the Russo-Turkish War broke out. The Russians moved south from Romania but stopped at Plevna in Bulgaria. Little Greece followed the developments with interest. The prime minister at the time, Alexandros Koumoundouros, intended to take advantage of the involvement of the Turks in order for G
The battle at Caltabouturo in Sicily is one of the least known of the Byzantine Empire, but also one of the most devastating for its Arab rivals. The Arab emirate of the Aglavids extended into present-day Libya and Algeria. It had also extended to Sicily. In 880 AD the Byzantines achieved a great
The city of Spartolos was the capital of the Vottians. The city was located in western Halkidiki, near Olynthos. It was part of the Athenian Alliance until the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC) when it rebelled and left the alliance. In 429 BC an Athenian force of about 4,000 men under
The Byzantine Empire took advantage of the Arab civil war that brought the Abbasid dynasty to power. Emperor Constantine V Isaurus recovered territories and fortresses in Asia Minor. One of them was the fortress of Kamachos, in the region of the Upper Euphrates. The fort in question had fallen into
Alalia of Corsica, todays Aleria, was a Greek city founded by settlers from Phocaea in Asia Minor during the Second Greek Colonization. The Phocaeans who had founded Phocaea were settlers from Phocis and Athens. The Phocaeans had also founded other cities in the wider area of the Italian and Frenc
The history of colonial domination by the European powers of enormous extensions in the African and Asian continents is full of arbitrary, cruel actions and characterized by an absolute disregard of the interests of the native populations of these places. One of these performances occurred in the
In 1040, Bulgaria was a province of the Byzantine Empire, after its subjugation by Vasilios Bulgarokdonos. However, this year the noble Petros Deleanos, who had, in theory, become Hellenized, left Constantinople and fled to Belgrade, from where he declared a revolution against the empire, proclaimin
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
Collaboration of Senovilla If any of us want to indicate that something is very far or far away, we use the well-known saying «it is in the Conchinchina «. The Spaniards always loved expanding throughout the world and reached the Conchinchina , this time it was with a missionary presence since th