On the evening of July 19, Friday, the eve of the invasion, we went around all Kato Phylakia (2nd Company) in a Land Rover together with Minister Damianidis Christos, commander of the Command Company, who was giving strict instructions to the men of the outposts not to shoot at the T/K enclave, and
The battle on Mount Vesuvius was the first major conflict of the so-called Third Slave War. It was also the first clash of Spartacus rebels with regular Roman troops in which the brilliant Thrax showed his strategic genius. Spartacus, according to Plutarch, was a Thrax descended from the race of the
It must have been around 3:00 p.m. when the 3rd company, under the command of Deputy Athanasios Mamalis, set out to take up positions in front of the Kalampaki hill to attack and capture the hill that unlocked the Turkish enclave of Agyrtas - Kioneli from the west. Together with Minister Damianidis
After the disastrous defeat of his fleet at Salamis, Xerxes withdrew with the bulk of his army from Greece, leaving his general and son-in-law Mardonius, with 300,000, to subjugate Greece. The latter retreated to the Boeotian plain and wintered there. The Greeks also moved there having gathered a st
From Kefalovrysos of Lapithos we marched west until we arrived after the Harama in Vasileia where the rest of the battalion had already arrived. At a distance of not more than a kilometer from the coast, a Turkish destroyer (perhaps the one that attacked us the day before?) was coming and going and
Before the first light of day dawned, artillery bursts were heard from the Turkish side... The talks in Geneva had broken down a few hours earlier and the Turks were putting into action their plans to occupy the entire northern part of the island , starting the second phase of the Turkish invasion..
An important discovery came to light after a recent archaeological dig by the Archaeological Service of Avlona. There is talk of burial mounds and burial monuments, which go back to the late Bronze Age around the 15th - 12th BC. century, which are located in the coastal area of Himara and as usual
The other Greece, the one that doesnt erect statues of heroes, that doesnt parade as a neurotic punk in parades, the one that respects its history that still exists. This is what students of the 2nd Primary School of Sidirokastro teach. The 2nd Primary School of Sidirokastro took part in a stude
Rastrellare in Italian means combing, clearing. For such a liquidation operation (rastrellamento), codenamed Operazioni K, on December 3, 1942, several reinforced phalanxes bearing the names of their commanders (Brancaccio, Valentino, Crocella, Piras and Bottini). The phalanxes belong to three diffe
An issue that has occupied the various scholars of the eponymous battle of Marathon for centuries concerns the presence and action of the Persian cavalry in the battle of Marathon. Much has been said about this particular subject, from the fact that the Persians did not even have cavalry, until the
The battle of Thermopylae is a catalytic conflict in world history. It is an eternal example of bravery and self-sacrifice. Thermopylae is intertwined with the name of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans. However, in the final fight the Spartans were not alone. The early sources do not agree on either the
The Greeks of the Mycenaean era had organized the most perfect military machine in the then known world. The Mycenaean Army consisted of infantry and cavalry weapons. The second included in its ranks chariots and later also horsemen, in the classical sense of the term. Infantry was distinguished int
The Battle of Cyprus in 1974 was decided in the two days of July 20-22, when the Greek forces, failed to eliminate the Turkish bridgehead at Pendemili in Kyrenia. This failure was a function of many factors, but basically it had to do with the inadequacy of the means available for the purpose. The m
Xerxes, after his magnificent victory at Thermopylae, gathered his army and moved south. His goal was the conquest of Athens, in the first phase and the Peloponnese afterwards. Athens was the second most powerful Greek city, and the Persian king rightly believed that its subjugation would greatly we
After the defeat of his forces at the Battle of Decimus, the Vandal king Gelimeros, at the head of his surviving men, moved south-west towards Mauritania. The morale of the army had fallen to such an extent that it did not even attempt to overthrow the few buccalarians (elite Byzantine horsemen) of
The historical site of Thermopylae became a battlefield not only in the famous conflict of 480 BC. but several more times in history. In 996 AD the Bulgarians, under Tsar Samuel, taking advantage of the involvement of the emperor Vasilios Bulgaroktonos with the Arabs, besieged Thessaloniki. However,
At the beginning of the 4th century BC. the Greeks of Sicily were fighting once more against their ancient rivals, the Carthaginians. Dionysius of Syracuse, this time wished to prepare the Greek forces as best as possible. But in addition to the classic weapons, the engineers of Dionysius invented a
In the 9th c. A.D. the Byzantine-Arab wars continued with unabated intensity. In general, it was a period when the Arabs largely had the upper hand, according to what is commonly said. This was also the reason why the Byzantines planned and executed a crude operation, in the heart of enemy territory
The largely unknown battle of the Hysias took place in 669 (or 668) BC. in the homonymous region of Argolis between Argives and Spartans and was an event of enormous importance for political and especially military developments in the Greek area. Hysias, according to the traveler Pausanias, was
The overwhelming majority of Greek public opinion believes that after the Asia Minor disaster of 1922, the Treaty of Lausanne was signed which has defined the Greek-Turkish borders from 1923 until today. However, as we have mentioned in many articles, from the Asia Minor disaster at the end of Augus
What we today call migraines, and by extension terrible headaches, for the ancient Egyptians, Greeks or Romans would be some punishment from the gods for forgetting an offering or having scrimped in the last sacrifice. Well, they already had a remedy for this evil of the gods that we have now recove
The Sumerian economy was based mainly on barter, and to prevent the markets from becoming a battlefield or the rogues from doing their thing, the rulers annually issued tables of product equivalencies. Thus, any buyer could know that a kilo of wool -which weighs the same as a kilo of iron- was equiv
Juana I, also called Juana La Loca , was born in 1479 in Toledo. She second daughter of the Catholic Monarchs; the only one who survived her parents. In 1496, she married Felipe el Hermoso , Archduke of Austria (son of Maximilian I, German Emperor, and his wife, Maria of Burgundy). On February 2
The Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty , signed on December 12, 1846 between the United States and the Republic of New Granada (now Colombia and Panama), was a trade reciprocity agreement between the two countries. The problem is that it was tremendously favorable for the economic and commercial interests of