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  • Attack on Tripolitsa 1825... Kolokotronis and the Greek disgrace

    In 1825, after the landing of Ibrahim in the Peloponnese, the Greek Revolution was in full swing. But there was the Old Man of Moria, Theodoros Kolokotronis. Kolokotronis had been a thief since genofascia His He had seen his whole family fall by the Turks knife. He himself had been hunted down and

  • "The Turkish names of Aegean and Agamemnon...", escaped the people across the street!

    In a program of the pro-government CNN Türk, Erdoğan Karakus, a retired air force officer, can be heard saying, among other things, the following:I want to say a word about a topic. On the subject of the Aegean and the word Aegean. It comes from the Akka Turks. The arrival of the Dorians in that

  • T/K "Averof":"Barba-Giorgos" and the Turkish battleships of its opponents

    The declaration of the First Balkan War on October 5, 1912, found the Greek Navy reinforced. Opposite him stood the powerful Turkish navy, ready to challenge their supremacy in the Aegean and to help reinforce the fighting divisions of the Turkish Army with Asiatic troops of the Empire. The Turkish

  • Battle of Rimini... Revenge of the Greek weapons in the enemy's territory (vid.)

    The 3rd Greek Mountain Brigade was formed on May 31, 1944 in Insariyeh, Lebanon, where it was trained in mountain combat. It had a total strength of 3,377 men and included three Infantry battalions, the III Field Artillery Regiment, an Engineer company, a Transport section, a Field Surgery section,

  • The Greek "apostle" in the West and the debts of Hesperia in Greece

    The capture of Rhodes, the last Christian bastion of the East, momentarily awakened the pope and the European powers. Again, a Greek contributed to this awakening, Janos Laskaris, a descendant of the Laskarids, the imperial family of Nicaea. Another Laskaris would later play a catalytic role in the

  • Pyrrhus, the "Eagle", against the Carthaginians and Mamertines... The unknown campaign

    The campaign of the king of Epirus Pyrrhus in Sicily, in the middle of his campaign in Italy, is one of the most unknown aspects of the venture. His goal was to save the Greek cities from the Carthaginians and their Mamertine allies. The latter were former mercenaries who had settled in Sicily and f

  • Thessaloniki October 1040 AD.... The great, unknown, crash of the Bulgarians

    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

  • The Greek navy! The naval battle in Salamis perfectly "studied", the secret!

    The choice of the point of the conflict with the Persians in Salamis was perfectly studied by the ancient Greeks and not at all random, as it was based on the knowledge of the local climatic conditions. This is shown by a new study from the Atmospheric Physics and Climatology Research Center of the

  • Olbius the historian of learning... Turks &Dodecanese, poverty

    Historys role in politics is not only in ancient times when Euripides said the well-known OLBIUS IS THE KNOWER OF HISTORY, but always. To be a good politician, one must know History, because most problems have a historicity. Few are those that are solved. Most are repeated and have the same or almos

  • World War II:The "solar cannon"... the "fire from heaven" plan

    The Germans during World War II attempted to design and build a “solar cannon”, a huge mirror, that is, which would be placed in orbit and concentrate solar radiation into a powerful beam, able to burn the cities and not only, of the enemies. A giant mirror in orbit looks like something out of scien

  • The world-historical naval battle of Salamis:A "heretical" view... Part I

    We Greeks consider – and rightly so – that the Naval Battle of Salamis is a milestone in Greek history. This victory of the Greeks - those who resisted the Persians - did stop the advance of Xerxes and forced him to abandon his plans to occupy the entire Greek peninsula. However, apart from its impo

  • The world-historical naval battle of Salamis... A "heretical" view, Part II

    And we reach the most important – perhaps – point in the history of the Naval Battle of Salamis. Here are found all the differences in the accounts of how the naval battle took place. There are basically two opinions. One - the prevailing one we could say - considers that the Persian fleet was lined

  • Sofianos:Turks-Albanians, and the shield of the Greeks in the conversions to Islam in Northern Epirus

    The period of Turkish rule begins for Pogoni at the end of the 14th century, as the area was occupied by the Ottomans before Ioannina. While at first there was a relative tolerance from the conquerors, gradually and especially after the fall of the city in 1453, the area came into the eye of the Tur

  • Yes, the Minoans knew fractions, 3,500 years ago... New revelations

    Little is known about the Minoan civilization that flourished in Crete 3500 years ago. To this day, the brilliant palaces of Knossos remind us of that early civilization, the first on European soil. With their fleet, the Minoans dominated the eastern Mediterranean, they were a strong trading power o

  • Military archaeology, finally, in Greece... an excellent feeling

    This new study by Ariston Books aims to partially fill a perceived gap in military historiography related to the sluggish treatment of individual, seemingly minor issues that have been neglected or ignored while retaining their utility. them for the more complete documentation of the greatest chapte

  • "The Armored in the Greek Army (1920-1940)"... An excellent study

    The Armored in the Greek Army 1920-40 is the title of the study, in the absolute literal sense of the term, by the well-known author Konstantinos Vlassis. And we say in the literal sense, because thats exactly what its about. The book in question is the ultimate treasure trove of knowledge that exam

  • Pella:The palace where Alexander the Great was born is revealed

    Next summer it is estimated that the palace where Alexander the Great was born in the then seaside Pella will be able to receive visitors. In this building, a part of which was excavated in 1957, when no one knew that it was the palace, the Macedonian king grew up, while in the palaestra located a s

  • Thrace 1949:Greek Army Holds Out, Royal Hellenic Air Force Saves

    The battle of Metaxades was nothing more than a serious distraction carried out by the units of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) in Thrace to attract units of the Hellenic Army (HE) to the region. The battle in the small village of Evros was the last attempt of the DSE to operate outside the fort

  • Testimony of Sossidis – Acheson Plan:The USA gave us Cyprus but we...

    In To Vima tis Kyriaki (13.01.2002) an article was published under the title The Acheson and Rhodes Plan, which is full of inaccuracies and claims that could only be characterized as figments of a morbid imagination. The columnist, among other things, argues that the then Prime Minister George Papan

  • Christos Iliadis:Personal testimony of a national guard in 1974 - PART 1

    After 43 years, I felt the need to record what I experienced in the summer of 1974, when I was serving in the 231 TP based in Ag. Vasileio, on the Nicosia – Panagron – Kyrenia road. I felt that I had a duty to convey what I experienced as a young national guard at the time, something like a debt of

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