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25 Ancient Greek Cities That No Longer Exist Or Are No Longer Greek
By taking a look at the world map today, you would never believe that Greece, which is nothing but a small country, currently known as a beautiful tourist destination in southern Europe, had once dominated…
Modern Greece And Greeks …in Whose Image?
Many Greeks and foreigners consider today’s Hellas to be the resurrection of a lost ancient polity, Classical Greece. The Greece that emerged from Ottoman rule after a chaotic, heroic yet haphazard war of independence received…
3D model of the Amphipolis Tomb
In 2012, Greek archaeologists uncovered a remarkable discovery northeast of Amphipolis at a site known as Kasta Hill — the largest burial tomb ever found in Greece. The circular perimeter of the mound measures 497…
Comparing Genocide: Jews And The Ottoman Greeks
By Dr. George Papadopoulos & Aris Tsilfidis We are all familiar with the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. But are we familiar with the extermination of 1.5 million Greeks during the…
100th Anniversary of the Genocide of Thracian Hellenism
A hundred years ago, our ancestors were forced to endure the 20th century’s first Holocaust, alongside Ottoman Armenians and Assyrians. Masterminded by Otto Liman von Sanders and the Ittihadist Ottoman Government, the Ottoman Greek Genocide…
Preserving the memory of the Anatolian Greek Genocide
The Great Catastrophe: Forgotten Genocide The achievements of the Greeks of Asia Minor and Pontos — in philosophy, history, literature, and science — continue to enrich our lives today. This legacy remains with us, but…
Yugoslav Film Archive Reveals Raw Footage Of Thessaloniki’s 1917 Great Fire
On August 18, 1917, a devastating fire broke out in Thessaloniki, reportedly caused by the carelessness of a French soldier. The flames burned for 32 hours and destroyed more than two-thirds of the city. Over…
Smyrna: The Destruction Of A Cosmopolitan City Is Screening Tonight In Philadelphia
Tonight at the University of Pennsylvania the film will be featured for the first time in Philadelphia. Director Maria Iliou will be present to talk about the film. Also present, will be Professor Alexander Kitroeff…
Rigas Pheraios: My Kind of Hero
I “met” him rather early in life, through his immortal words of the Thourios Ymnos, drummed into our heads by our Greek School Teacher in anticipation of the March 25th Celebration. In the Pantheon of…
Prominent Greek-American Reporter, Ike Pappas – Front Row Seat To History
November 22, 2013 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald and for those that were alive on November 22, 1963, they remember…
A Partisan Chat: Alexis Parnis
“You see, I still live like a partisan,” as he showed me his house on the slopes of Mt. Hymettus, in the rapidly suburbanized and gentrified suburb of Peania, outside Athens. The modest house with…
The Exodus From Greece
“Thirty years ago there were scarcely any Greeks in these United States. At the present time they number over a quarter of a million, scattered throughout the length and breadth of our country, an important,…
