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“You Just Go”: The Quiet Heroism of Anastasios Garipis and the Rescue Off Epanomi
The true story of how kite surfer Anastasios Garipis saved a Hungarian father and daughter off Epanomi in July 2025 and was honored with Hungary’s Gold Medal of Honor.
Greeks in Hungary, a History in Two Acts
The Greek presence in Hungary is one of the oldest in Greece’s modern Diaspora, predating the Greek state by well over a century. It is, further, one of the most interesting because, as a tragic…
Coffee talk in Belogiannis
Alexander Billinis seeks out the history behind the Greek settlement of Beloiannisz in Hungary Five minutes off a spanking new autobahn, funded, like those in Greece, by the European Union, I arrive in Beloiannisz, a…
