Mr. Aristides Hatzis systematically uses the provocation even if he pulls or even falsifies the historical facts to promote his ethno-nihilistic conceptions of history. In fact, lately he has been systematically dealing with... Kapodistrias, whom he called a dictator in a recent text, posted on the
Konstantinos Moussouros was a, indulgently, controversial personality. He was Greek by birth, scion of a large Phanariot family with Cretan roots. He was born in 1807 and in 1840 he was appointed as the first ambassador of the Ottoman Empire to Greece. Mousouros, however, could be characterized a
He escaped the GESTAPO prisons, the Pavlos Melas prisons in Thessaloniki and the concentration camp in Stein, Austria. He buried 700 of his comrades who were executed by the SS in the massacre of April 6, 1945. He himself survived by falling just before the rattle of the machine gun. And yesterday I
The Myrians were nothing more than a mercenary body. They were recruited by the brother of the Persian king, Cyrus, to be used in his attempt to seize the Achaemenid throne. After the death of Cyrus in the battle of Kounaxa, the Persians misled the Greek generals and killed them, along with other of
In 1911 the Italy-Ottoman Empire war broke out. In the spring of 1912 the Italians began to occupy the Greek Dodecanese. The Italians reached Kastellorizo on April 29, 1912 but did not occupy it because they considered it too far from the other islands and could not hold it, despite the request of
Libya supported Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, mentioned this the other day in an attempt to justify the sending of Turkish troops to this country. Apparently wanting to highlight the timeless relations and ties of the two countries, but al
At the beginning of the 11th c. A.D. Setina (todays Skopos village of Florini prefecture) had a special strategic importance. The Bulgarian Tsar Samuel had built an important fortress there. In 1014 Samuels army was crushed by Basil II Bulgarokdonos in the famous battle of Kleidi. Shortly after
The Many and the Few. Crowd and Virtue, was the title of the event that took place last night in the great hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, on the occasion of the anniversary year Thermopylas - Salamis 2020. The event was the symbolic closing of the 20th high-level meeting
In 1827 the Greek revolution was blowing the whistle. The blunders of the leadership had allowed Ibrahim to settle in the Peloponnese. Messolonghi had fallen and the Egyptian troops were leveling Moria. At the same time, Kioutachis was burning Roumeli. Few places were still held by the Greek revolut
In 1176 the Byzantine Empire suffered one of the most devastating defeats in its history at Myrikefalo. The Seljuk Turks continued their devastating raids in Asia Minor, taking advantage of their victory. However, Byzantium was still able to react and in fact particularly dynamically and effectively
On Sunday 19 January 2020, Air Force Supermarine Spitfire MJ755 took off from Biggin Hill Airport in Great Britain for its first test flight in 67 years, which was a complete success. The flight was attended by the Vice-President and legal representative of the Ikaros Foundation, Mr. Dimitrios Ko
It was January 31, 1996 when the biggest Turkish provocation against Greece took place which claimed the lives of three Navy officers and became known as the Imia crisis. The lieutenants Christodoulos Karathanasis and Panagiotis Vlahakos as well as the chief pilot Hector Gialopsos gave their lives i
There are many places in Greece, where history and the natural environment coexist harmoniously and in some cases complement each other. But there are few places, where bravery, self-sacrifice, and supreme love for the country have left their own distinct imprint on the landscape. Rupel Fort is o
Thucydides is world famous for his account of the Peloponnesian War and his analysis of the relations between city-states is today the basis of the realist school of International Relations. Once at school we were taught in detail the Epitaph of Pericles, a hymn to democracy and the country, which T
Exactly 190 years ago, the London Protocol was signed, with which Russia, Britain and France recognized the independence of the new state of Greece. The return of the country of the Greeks to the map of Europe has been a long-standing dream of the monarchs of Russia, who saw the Greeks as Orthodox b
Flavios Fokas was a special case of man in the negative sense. He was a low-ranking army officer who rebelled against Emperor Maurice, whom he destroyed along with his entire family to become emperor. From there on, he began his destructive work for the state, which fortunately did not last long.
The code name of the plan was Esigenza G and it was none other than the Regio Esercito invasion plan in Greece. In theory, it wasnt bad at all. One could even call it bold, innovative and promising. The code name of the plan was Esigenza G (Contingent G), also known as Emergenza G (Emergency G)[1] a
The inhabitants of Phthia were called Myrmidones in the Homeric era. They got their name from Myrmidon, son of Zeus and Eurymedusa, according to the legend. The same myth states that Zeus transformed himself into an ant in order to mate with the said princess, hence the name of their offspring.
After the failure of the Italian infantry to hold Grabala, the baton of attacks is taken by the artillery, which from the morning of November 4th, with a storm of fire, hammers the heights of Grabala-Psilorachi, as well as that of Assonissa further west , as well as the hills around Kalpaki. The Ita
In the last quarter of the 17th century, another revolution against the Turks broke out in Greece, in the area of mountainous Phocis, led by the charioteer Kurmas and assisted by the Venetians. With him was the bishop of Salona Filotheos with the cross in his right hand and the sword in his left –
The lord of La Palice distinguished himself during the Battle of Marignan, which earned him the title of Marshal of France in 1515. He gave his name to the famous lapalissades or “the truth of La Palice”. However, it is not for much, it was enough for him to die on February 24, 1525 at the Battle of
It is well known that the ancients were pleased that their gods had many adventures. It is already known that the people like to brag about powerful gods. The god Marduk , patron of Babylon, could not be less. We are not going to deal here with his numerous escapades, which led him to become a legen
The wreckage of a German ju-87 Stuka aircraft, identified at the bottom of the Karpathos, sheds light on a tragic story from the Second World War. As it emerged from the underwater and historical research of the researcher Costas Thoktaridis and the Planet Blue team, the Junkers Stuka aircraft crash
At the time of the digital revolution, it is very difficult for us to imagine how tumultuous the history of photography was and especially how long it took to take even a single photograph. This invention, now common to everyone, we owe it to a Frenchman, Nicéphore Niépce. Intended for the priestho