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Alexander Billinis
Ghosts of Smyrna in Izmir
There is something about travel to our lost homelands that creates spectral yearnings in me. I have had the great fortune to visit and to experience nearly every country bordering Greece, or where the Byzantine…
I never made it to Trebizond’s Agia Sophia, at least not in time
I traveled to Turkey a couple of times, always in the thrall of Byzantium yet charmed every time by the kindness and brotherly feelings of Turkish friends and strangers. I think it is important to…
