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Smederevo: Last Stand of Serbian Byzantium
Serbia is a small country, filled with so much history on so little land. This provides the traveler with ample opportunities to visit places of immense historical interest and importance, all within easy reach. In…
The Absent Byzantium
Late 1912, in a stormy Aegean lately thundering with the cannonades of the Greek and Turkish flotillas, a victorious Greek squadron sends marines ashore to the island of Lemnos, only recently under Turkish rule. With…
Mystra: Byzantium’s Indian Summer
Mystra figures less prominently in historical commentary and touristic itineraries than other Greek sites, but for profundity and for a true taste of sublime, understated beauty, it is peerless. Here is where Byzantium expired, yet…
Venice: Modern Greece’s First Diaspora
Diaspora is a Greek word, connoting a dispersion of seed or people. It is quite appropriate, as Greeks from time immemorial have left their shores. Greeks in America or Australia are part of a long…
We Are Still Here: The Jews of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece Today if you were to stroll past the elegant neoclassical buildings on Tsimiski or sit and people watch at the scenic Aristotelous Square, you would feel and see all the right things that…
A Forgotten Greece: The Pomakochoria
Echinos, Xanthi – Greece After miles of mountainous backroads north of the city of Xanthi, Greece lies a region that is commonly unmentioned when discussing modern day Greece. Far from the highly-photographed, whitewashed villages of…
Petition launched to include all Greeks in genocide recognitions
By Aris Tsilfidis Over the past few decades, Greeks have made numerous attempts to recognize the genocide of native Greeks living in Ottoman Turkey between 1914-1923. More often than not, these recognitions have been assigned…
Byzantium Hidden In Plain Sight
Explore how Byzantine literature, science, and culture is around us every day with speaker Alexander Billinis. Thursday, April 27, 2017 6:00 – 7:30 PM at the National Hellenic Museum Cost: $15 non-members, $10 NHM, $5…
AHEPA Remembers… 70 years ago
President Harry S. Truman established with the Truman Doctrine, that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine…
A Brief History Of The Greek Community In Wilmington Delaware
Wilmington, DE – The Greek Community in Wilmington came together like most other ethnic groups around the country. What brought them to Wilmington was the promise of the opportunity that a growing city could offer.…
The Last Free Message, April 27, 1941
After seven months of resistance and after defeating Italy, Nazi Germany invades via Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. While the German troops invading from Bulgaria were pinned down by the Greeks at the Metaxas line, and the…
Oxi Day, The Day Of No!
At 3 am on the morning of October 28th, 1940, Emanuele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador to Greece, delivered an ultimatum from Benito Mussolini to Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. Il Duce demanded that Metaxas allow the…
