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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…
Ludlow Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War
On September 15, 1913, the United Mine Workers union voted to strike in southern Colorado to protest dangerous working conditions and poor pay. The strike eventually blew up into one of the most violent times…
Byzantium: Hidden In Plain Sight
Today, when I am writing this, is May 29. For many Greeks and other successors of Byzantium, the date’s significance is self-evident. The seismic event, the final fall of Constantinople to the Turks, on this day…
Bulkes: The “Greek Republic” That “Never Existed”
5/23/2016 — Today, it’s raining here in Chicago, and cold in mid-May. Back in January of 2013, it was just such a cold, rainy day… but elsewhere. At the time, my family still lived in…
Homeland: The Greeks Of Utah
After visiting Greek communities in so many parts of the world, it only makes sense for me to “come home” to my own community. The Greek Community of Utah is both typical of Greek communities…
