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The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji and the Greek Revolution
Few events could have been more important in the road to Greek national agency than this treaty in 1774 which ended the Russo-Turkish War. The war itself had been devastating for Greeks, but the peace…
This Date In History: A Greek, a Bomb, an Airplane, and a Turkish Ship
February 5, 1913: During the Balkan Wars, a Greek Farman MF.7 airplane, piloted by Lt. Michael Moutoussis and with Ensign Aristeidis Moraitinis as an observer, dropped four bombs on Turkish anchored ships and is regarded…
The Accidental Hero Of Greece: Admiral Codrington And The Battle Of Navarino 1827
On October 20, 1827, allied fleets from Britain, France, and Russia met the Ottoman–Egyptian navy in Navarino Bay. What began as a tense standoff ended in a decisive battle that changed the course of the…
How Hydra Got its Name, and other Riddles of a Glorious Island
It is hard not to fall in love with Hydra. We Hydriots are, of course, biased, yet the island’s graphic beauty, sharp light, and proud history, seasoned with the imprimatur of artists and celebrities, make…
Primary Sources, And Their Power: The Greek Genocide In American Naval War Diaries
Savvas Koktzoglou is a retired mechanical engineer, a Greek American from Chicago, Illinois. He is a native of Drama, in Greece’s province of Macedonia, a child of Pontic Greeks from the Black Sea who settled…
Fireships: An Asymmetric Weapon That Helped Liberate Greece
I try not to make parallels to the Ancients when talking about Modern Greece; it is a cliché too worn, a dividend too often presented for payment. And yet, allow me a bit of hypocrisy…
The Greek Orthodox Church In America, A Modern History
In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country’s million-plus Greek…
This Date in History: An 800 Year Apology
May 4, 2001: Pope John Paul II visits Athens and makes apologies for the sins of the Crusader attack on Constantinople in 1204. April 8, 1204, a combined Crusader army, on the way to establish…
A Grand Old Lady
She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, carried allied troops across the Atlantic and around the world, carried immigrants from the Old World to the New World, and after four decades of service, met an uneventful…
Hydra 200 Years ago… in 1820
As this article goes to (digital) press, time travel is still not a possibility, and to recreate the past, even as a historian depending on documents, is still, in part, an act of fiction. The…
Samos at the Edge
There is an island, in the far east of the Aegean, the closest island, in fact, to Asia Minor, where a tiny strait separates the island from the Turkish mainland. Its scenery is beautiful, its…
Oxi Day and the USS Slater that Served the Greek Navy
Today, Oxi Day, we pay homage to the forty years that USS SLATER served the Greek Navy at A/T AETOS. We fly the Greek flag. Oxi Day is celebrated throughout Greece, Cyprus and the Greek…
